Paris (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two decades of relations with the West, initially marked by fascination over what the ex-KGB agent stood for and then bursts of cooperation, have now reached a point of no return with his invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. The attack has created an indelible rupture between Russia and the European Union and United States as long as Putin stays in power, with Moscow now likely to turn to China as its main ally. But this appeared in no way inevitable — Russia spent much of Putin’s rule as a member of the G8 club of top nations and he claimed that …