Opinion
A World Without Values: How the New Geopolitics Replaces Ideas with Profit
The new architecture of the world is not built on the UN Charter, but in informal clubs. There is no place for justice in it. There is only room for pragmatism
Vyacheslav Butko
economist, managing partner of the Thomson & French investment project
On values, efficiency, and the new architecture of the world. We have entered an era where it is not about changing values, but about dismantling them.
Politics is increasingly becoming an accounting rather than an ideology. Whereas before they used to negotiate about rights, now they negotiate about shares and distribution. Where they used to argue about human dignity, they now divide infrastructure hubs and sign investment memorandums worth tens or hundreds of billions.
In this context, Trump's visits to the Middle East are not diplomacy, but an audit: who, how many, for what/for how much.
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