The age of Western moralising is over — the world is now truly multipolar Every October, the Valdai Discussion Club gathers as a kind of intellectual weather vane for global politics. This year’s 22nd session, titled: ‘The Polycentric World: Instructions for Use’, felt less like a debate than a diagnosis – the world has crossed a threshold. Multipolarity is no longer an emerging idea; it is the reality we inhabit. The leitmotif of Valdai 2025 came from President Vladimir Putin himself, in words