A major global issue that the G8 would have to address is the turmoil in the Arab world and the deadlocked civil war in Libya; Medvedev would find himself in a minority of one in these discussions.

Medvedev’s failure to sustain the cooperative momentum comes not from the feebleness of his pretense at leadership but from his organic belonging to Putin’s regime, which is seriously incompatible with Western institutions.

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