The US-Led Open Liberal Order Is a Hybrid System of Power Politics

Putin is a student of power politics and he can see it and he certainly can practice it. But I would say it's a hybrid system. It's a mixture of hierarchy and multilateralism. Not all states are equal and they call it the US-led open liberal order. There are privileges that the powerful have. Certainly in the Security Council, in China and Russia, understand that the rule-based order tied to the UN is one where there are privileges in hierarchy.