🇷🇺 - Putin says Westphalian system is over, now sovereignty resides not in being a country but rather "being a people" and that democracy is the "rule of the minority".

Basically justifying further meddling in other countries' affairs to favor democratic backsliding and possibly even irredentism or separatism.

A major country explicitly rejecting the Westphalian system is a first since a while imo.

Dr. Steve Turley(real)

Forwarded from Global Intel Watch (Cody)

🇷🇺 - Putin says Westphalian system is over, now sovereignty resides not in being a country but rather "being a people" and that democracy is the "rule of the minority".

Basically justifying further meddling in other countries' affairs to favor democratic backsliding and possibly even irredentism or separatism.

A major country explicitly rejecting the Westphalian system is a first since a while imo.

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