Global South

Ghatkar: I am worried about a lot of things happening in the global south on sanctions at the moment. Russian disinformation campaigns are working in full steam, for instance, in African countries to blame sanctions for a number of things that are happening around the world. This is technically not true. There are no sanctions preventing Russia and Ukraine, of course, to export grains. But this narrative is gaining traction. And I think what this shows is that there is a lack of knowledge about what sanctions are, what they really do, how they really work. To me, this is really a worry. The battle to win hearts and minds in a multipolar fragmented world will be about winning these hearts