Putin faces deepening isolation as world leaders belatedly react

Recent events seem to signal that more countries are willing to at least make an effort to co-operate on a strategy to force an end to the bloodshed in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 2022 Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square. Putin seems to have made a serious miscalculation when he decided to weaponize food as part of his war effort, writes Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

August 16, 2023

OTTAWA—Some of the world’s hitherto neutral nations may be starting to wake up to the dangers of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s psychopathic and apparently endless commitment to violently expand his country’s dominance, and rework the global balance of power.

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