“Our objective is not to be the vassals of two hegemonic powers,” he told students in Seoul. “We don’t want to depend on the dominance, let’s say on China, or we don’t want to be too much exposed to the unpredictability of the US.”

European countries, he said, have a shared agenda with places like Japan and South Korea on issues like international law, democracy, climate change and global health.

There’s the whole democracy thing.

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You mean Russia forces them into the meat grinder. Ukraine defends itself.

Does being a Marxist mean being contrarian to every accusation of wrong-doing against a country that America historically doesn’t like?