
Yet while Russia’s aggression is an event of global significance, people in different parts of the world have experienced and interpreted it in diverse ways. The conflict has challenged Europeans’ most basic assumptions about their security, brought the spectre of nuclear confrontation back to their continent, and disrupted the global economy, leaving energy and food crises in its wake.

People in these non-Western countries, and in Russia, also consider the emergence of a multipolar world order to be more probable than a bipolar arrangement.In contrast, citizens in China, India, and Turkiye prefer a quick end to the war even if Ukraine has to concede territory.

Europeans and Americans agree they should help Ukraine to win, that Russia is their avowed adversary, and that the coming global order will most likely be defined by two blocs led respectively by the US and China.A new poll suggests that Russia’s war on Ukraine has consolidated ‘the West ’ European and American citizens hold many views in common about major global questions.
