Putin still thinks the world runs on spheres of interests like it used to in the late 19th century.
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It doesn't?
No it doesn’t. There’s just America’s interests among the western countries. Everyone else follows along.
Whereas in the late 19th century, you had the European powers making alliances and counter alliances and shifting alliances 3 times a day like it’s a chess game, and each country’s interests were independent of the other.