The Russian president’s annual speech is part of a long sequence, heavy with meaning and ruptures. It is neither an institutional ritual nor a simple exercise in internal communication. As in 2007 in Munich, when the Russian president directly denounced American unipolarity and the Western security architecture inherited from the Cold War (1947-1991), this speech constitutes a major geopolitical act, in the most classic and noble sense of the term, comparable to the great speeches that reshaped the international order.
Putin’s grand speech, or the autopsy of a twilight West faced with the unapologetic emergence of multipolarity
Mohamed Lamine KABA