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Al Jazeera · Qatar · Putin's SPIEF: 'no recession' as the war economy stalls and drones hit the showcase
Casts SPIEF as Putin's outreach to the Global South against Western isolation — Saudi Arabia as guest of honour, an American delegation back for the first time in years — even as the war economy's strains are the unstated subtext.
“The forum is Putin's pitch to a non-Western world, with Saudi Arabia guest of honour and a US delegation back after years away.”