The trilateral summit of the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey in Tehran was not just about the Syrian settlement, food and energy security and a host of other issues. It was one big story, not just about Syria, Ukraine, oil, gas and grain.
In addition to discussing specific topics and subjects on which current global politics are strung, the trilateral meeting in Tehran had an added value. Inadvertently, it touched on the new hierarchy and rankings of Eastern and Western states that have emerged in the world since the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
It is no coincidence that, having already returned from the Iranian capital, speaking at the forum of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives during the discussion “Strong Ideas for a New Time”, President Putin said that a new era and a new stage of world history are coming. At this stage only sovereign states capable of understanding and accepting the new rules of the game will have the decisive word. Speaking of the historical role of western countries, Vladimir Putin questioned their ability to offer the world a model for the future after the current golden billion model of domination is crumbling before our eyes.
Notice that all this was said after the trilateral summit in Tehran, which lends a special symbolism to what was said.
It was the second time the Iranian capital was the place where three leaders met to determine the fate of the world. Prior to that, in November 1943, the heads of the three great powers – the USSR, the United States and Great Britain – had met in Tehran: Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
The first meeting of the Big Three during the Second World War had to answer many unusually difficult questions concerning the continuation of the war against Hitler’s Germany and the future post-war order. And no matter how the leaders of the Big Three, on opposite sides of the world barricades, felt about each other, the meeting in Tehran showed that they could talk and agree. At a critical moment, they were aware of their shared responsibility for the fate of the world.
If that historic meeting in Tehran had not taken place, the historic meeting on the Elbe in April 1945 would not have happened either.
But today the US President is called Joe Biden – and he is clearly no Roosevelt, who was not a pathetic caricature of a great power president. And in London there is not just no Churchill, but no prime minister at all. Churchill was a staunch anti-Soviet and gave his famous Fulton speech, which became the Cold War manifesto. He was also a global politician – not Boris Johnson.
Today, more than eight decades later, the old “Big Three” of Teheran-43 are no longer possible. One cannot enter the same story twice, as one cannot enter the same water. There are no interlocutors left for Moscow in Washington and London.
There is nobody to talk to and nothing to talk about. If back in November 1943 the main topic was the common struggle against fascism, now the main topic for the West is the common struggle with Russia, which crushed fascism. And accordingly, all-out support for neo-Nazism in the centre of post-war Europe, which has sprouted on the Ukrainian land that was soaked in blood during the war.
As a result, the centre of gravity of global decision-making is shifting from the West to the East and a new “Big Three” is meeting in Teheran-22 in a new historical era.
At a time when the previous participants are out of the picture.
Sergey Strokan, RT
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