Russia has made a decisive break with the West and is ready to help shape a new world order

... summit under the Chinese presidency. Russia had been discussed as a threat at the G7 gathering but was a key participant in the latter. Long gone are the days when Moscow could straddle the divide between the West and the non-West. Following the 2014 Ukraine crisis, the G8 reverted to its previous G7 format; in the wake of the Russian military action in Ukraine last February, Russian-Western confrontation degenerated into a full-blown “h ybrid war,” complete with an actual confrontation – if so far a proxy one. Having tried, after the end ...