The gulf crisis may not all work in Putin’s favour

Mr Balakrishnan described Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "maybe a larger milestone than the fall of the Berlin Wall."

Mr Balakrishnan may be correct, even though the Berlin Wall precipitated the demise of communism as an ideology rather than a power-driven political system, and Ukraine is likely to push Russia out of the fight for global supremacy in an emerging bipolar or multipolar world order.

Despite the ....