Outside the West, Putin is less isolated than you might think

[WarGamer]

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Outside-the-West-Putin-is-less-isolated-than-you-16991175.php

Anthony Faiola and Lesley Wroughton, The Washington Post


Outside the West, Putin is less isolated than you might think

From a perch in the West, it's easy to see a world standing against Russian President Vladimir Putin. As Russian forces lay brutal siege to Ukrainian cities, leaders in Washington and the capitals of Europe are slapping Moscow with sanction after sanction. In Western countries, Putin has come to be seen as a Bond villain caricature and antagonist to a heroic, beloved Zelensky. Even McDonald's suspended operations in Russia. Surely you're isolated if you can't buy a Big Mac.

Look deeper, though, and the suggestion that Putin is isolated may still be something of a Western bias - an assumption based on a definition of the "world" as places of privilege, largely the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan. Of the 193 members of the United Nations, 141 voted to condemn Moscow's unprovoked attack on its neighbor. But that majority vote doesn't tell the more nuanced story.

"There is a feeling [that] the level of support from a lot of non-Western countries for this resolution was quite thin," said Richard Gowan, U.N. director at the International Crisis Group.

[Bev54]

1. Could be but how much influence or help can they be to Russia?

None of them are power brokers and many need the west to survive.