• With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the West has embraced Poland's Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose regime had previously transformed the country from one of Eastern Europe’s democratic front-runners into one of the world’s most rapidly 'autocratizing' countries. | AGENCY GAZETA / VIA REUTERS
    With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the West has embraced Poland's Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose regime had previously transformed the country from one of Eastern Europe’s democratic front-runners into one of the world’s most rapidly “autocratizing” countries. | AGENCY GAZETA / VIA REUTERS
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VIENNA – In their scramble to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin’s murderous revanchism, Western leaders seem increasingly open to striking Faustian bargains with other authoritarian regimes.

Hence, on March 16, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet with its de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — making him one of the few Western leaders to do so since the gruesome killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

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