{"id":125874,"date":"2022-07-24T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=125874"},"modified":"2022-07-24T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T13:03:01","slug":"the-power-troika-trumps-biden-in-west-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=125874","title":{"rendered":"The Power Troika Trumps Biden in West Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The power troika trumps Biden in West Asia (By Pepe Escobar )<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey convened to discuss critical issues pertaining to West Asia, with the illegal US occupation of Syria a key talking point<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">By Pepe Escobar &#8211; July 20 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey convened to discuss critical issues pertaining to West Asia, with the illegal US occupation of Syria a key talking point<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/Article\/Columns\/13301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/thecradle.co\/Article\/Columns\/13301&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1658753695343000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2zZ1NrEZEmsS49mTummjXf\">https:\/\/thecradle.co\/Article\/<wbr \/>Columns\/13301<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Tehran summit uniting Iran-Russia-Turkey was a fascinating affair in more ways than one. Ostensibly about the Astana peace process in Syria, launched in 2017, the summit joint statement duly noted that Iran, Russia and (recently rebranded) Turkiye will continue, \u201ccooperating to eliminate terrorists\u201d in Syria and \u201cwon\u2019t accept new facts in Syria in the name of defeating terrorism.\u201d<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>That\u2019s a wholesale rejection of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d exceptionalist unipolarity that once ruled West Asia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Standing up to the global sheriff<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his own speech, was even more explicit. He stressed \u201cspecific steps to promote the intra-Syrian inclusive political dialogue\u201d and most of called a spade a spade: <b>\u201cThe western states led by the US are strongly encouraging separatist sentiment in some areas of the country and<\/b><b> plundering its natural resources <\/b>with a view to ultimately pulling the Syrian state apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So there will be \u201cextra steps in our trilateral format\u201d aimed at \u201cstabilizing the situation in those areas\u201d and crucially, <b>\u201creturning control to the legitimate government of Syria.\u201d <\/b>For better or for worse, the days of imperial plunder will be over.<\/p>\n<p>The bilateral meetings on the summit\u2019s sidelines \u2013 Putin\/Raisi and Putin\/Erdogan \u2013 were even more intriguing.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Context is key here: the Tehran gathering took place after Putin\u2019s visit to Turkmenistan in late June for the 6th Caspian summit<\/b>, <b>where all the littoral nations, Iran included, were present, and after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov\u2019s travels in Algeria, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, where he met all his Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) counterparts.<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}