If Xi Jinping called on the nations under the Chinese sun to get out of the “Cold War mentality of the clash between blocs,” Vladimir Putin condemned NATO for the crisis in Ukraine, which he continues to present as a “special operation.” The leaders of the 27 states present in China have established a roadmap for the gradual introduction of national currencies in international exchanges. At China’s initiative, the SCO Development Bank will be established as a counterpart to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund. The final document of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting states that in contrast to the generalized chaos, “a new economic and security order is needed that effectively challenges the United States.”

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, such a challenge from the Old American Eagle has not been heard.

It is becoming increasingly clear that in Anchorage, Putin played a little peace with Donald Trump. He may have put the American leader’s cards on the table, but in addition to Crimea, Lugansk, and Donetsk, the Kremlin leader wants more. In the global game of interests, Ukraine is just a pretext to spend Europeans’ wealth on armaments. On the geopolitical map of the world, its resources are already coveted by the USA and Russia. Who else could covet something? This story with the reconstruction of Ukraine is like the drug highway in southern Afghanistan, not yet built, but existing. Those who will walk the money will be the only profiteers of the post-war. It is becoming increasingly clear that no one wants peace. Russia has already developed a war economy. China and North Korea are by its side from a military point of view. Obviously, in addition to Belarus. China has an active army of 1.3 million soldiers. All the major European powers cannot fill two Wembley stadiums with their armies.

Ursula von der Leyen has embarked on a military tour of the border states of Russia and Ukraine. Finland is frozen at the window. It has never experienced such a state of geopolitical tension. It had to come out of neutrality. Now, the population, extremely afraid of the Russian Voldemort, is paying. That’s how it is in the business of war.The summit was organized at a time when the United States is building tariff walls with most of the world’s countries, affecting the predictability of world trade.The American president’s tantrums seem to be increasingly annoying in a world economy full of turbulence. The US is becoming an unreliable partner.Beijing has tried to take advantage of trade uncertainties, presenting itself as a factor of stability and a hub for trade and technology in Asia and the Global South.”Establishing a climate of planetary peace—this is the prayer of all humanity,” summed up Narendra Modi, the leader from New Delhi, adding that India and Russia regularly exchange views on the conflict in Ukraine.

The world’s maps of influence are being redrawn, while the leader of the European Union is looking for soldiers to send into the Ukrainian embers.“The supreme refinement in the art of war is to thwart the enemy’s plans,” Sun Tzu would conclude, two and a half millennia ago.

By Marius Ghilezan