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Erdogan has seemingly abandoned military operation against Syria’s Kurds.
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The message from Tehran following the trilateral meeting between Russia, Iran and Turkey signals that Moscow, despite constant claims by Western leaders, is not isolated from most of the world because of the military operation in Ukraine. The July 19 meeting in Tehran is seemingly an important catalyst for many sovereign countries that believe that the time has come to end Western dominance and demands over states seeking sovereignty, and it is for this reason that there is a bombardment in Western media that this was a meeting between isolated states.
One New York Times headline reads: “Putin Finds a New Ally in Iran, a Fellow Outcast”, while another article from the same publication described that the meeting as potentially being a “new anti-American alliance.”
This leads to two questions though: is Russia an international outcast and is the trilateral relationship an anti-American alliance?
Iran, which has suffered from Western sanctions is sympathetic to the reasons for Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and is ready to enhance on any kind of cooperation with the Eurasian country on the political, energy and military levels. Iran is ready cooperate with Russia in all sectors, continues the construction of gas pipelines through its territory and, together with Saudi Arabia and Russia, fulfils India’s energy needs.
Attempting to isolate Russia, the world’s largest country and an important energy provider, is a futile effort. Instead, the West’s efforts to isolate Russia from the world has rather seen the opposite effect as Russia continues to improve its relations with China, India, Africa and Latin America, among others.
The meeting in Tehran will have repercussions in terms of closer integration between these countries.
When it comes to the plans of Turkey, which had a notable role at the meeting in Tehran, its own regional ambitions were acknowledged and discussed, particularly its plans for a military operation in northern Syria against the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a militant group recognised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey.
The joint statement of Russia, Turkey and Iran on Syria effectively highlights Turkey’s abandonment of its ambitions, even when it comes to redefining the borders towards Syria and expressing ambitions towards the area inhabited by Kurds.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against carrying out an operation in Syria, and in a separate meeting, he told him that any military attack would be harmful for Turkey, Syria and the entire region.
“Terrorism must definitely be confronted, but a military attack on Syria will only benefit the terrorists,” said a message posted on Khamenei’s Twitter account alongside a photograph of him meeting with Erdogan. Publicly, mostly for the internal audience of Turkey, Erdogan said: “Our fight against terrorist organisations will continue everywhere. We expect Russia and Iran to support Turkey in this struggle.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out the groundwork though and said the three countries had agreed on a joint declaration to work together for a “normalisation of the situation” in Syria, making it clear that there would be no Western involvement in the country. The “destructive policy of Western countries led by the United States,” Putin claims, is aimed at the “dismemberment of the Syrian state.”
The agreed positions of the three leaders – Russia, Turkey and Iran – will contribute to the stabilisation of the situation in Syria and the elimination of American interests in the region, which includes the illegal extraction of Syrian oil.
More importantly, the meeting in Tehran could be a turning point in the regrouping of world forces. Latin American and African already express solidarity with Russia in its struggle against Western domination. For non-Westerners, it is clear that the Ukrainian war is actually one between Russia and NATO’s struggle for hegemony.
The majority of the world, over 80 percent of humanity, supports the idea of a new multipolar world order. If Russia, Iran and Turkey can bring the Syrian war to a peaceful conclusion, which mostly hinges on Ankara’s abandonment of its neo-Ottoman policy towards Syria, it will be a major blow to the US’s efforts to remain relevant in the Middle East. This blow would prove to be even bigger than Joe Biden’s disastrous recent trip to Saudi Arabia.
If turkey wants to prove itself, it NEEDS to fully abandon wahabis in idlib. That alone will be the fall of daesh because turkey is the only one with military presence in the area that’s training and protecting the wahabis. Turkey will unlikely do it because that’s means lots of Syrians will immigrate to turkey, and Mossad will make sure a handful of them are daesh sleeper agents as a retaliation
dear friend turks are wahabis
There will always be trouble in the middle East because there are so many different people in a very small area. Diversity is NOT a strength no matter how the WEFF tries to frame it.
Could only read half the article, as the author seems so far behind events, that it is tragic.
Russia, who is part of BRICS, CIS, Eurasian Union, Shanghai Corporation Organisation – and he believes that most believe that Russia is isolated? Partners, including Russia, who have the majority of the world’s natural resources, the major industrial nations, who just happen to have 80% of the world population, around 20% world debt, low GDP-debt ratios, trading in each other’s currencies and doing their best to avoid the $US and that is before you get to their currency reserves.
Then you have the G7 members and the EU, that only provide 10% of the world’s population, whilst having no problem with having 80% of world debt, high GDP-debt ratios and are in the club of the declining nations.
Iran and Russia, are not isolated, but, can the same be said of the G7 nations?
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After the murders of the the SU-24 pilots in 2015 “by Turkey”… The murder of Andrei Karlov in 2016 “by Turkey”… And hundreds of Russian military in Syria “by Turkey and NATO since 2015″… That was rewarded with an SA-400 “sale” from Russia to Turkey… Just who’s “side” is “who” on at this point?…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/odessa-port-rocked-airstrikes-hours-after-ukraine-grain-export-deal-signed
This has to be either the sickest joke. Or the World’s darkest comedy in it’s history!
Look at the bigger picture. How come NATO allies are freaking out with regards Turkey’s relationship with Russia? How many nervous breakdowns does Erdogan provide NATO elite? Russia has got Turkey where she wants her.
My argument. How do you establish any modicum of trust when your business partner doubles as a traitor?…
I like the old days when you had sides and lines you never crossed!
They know they cannot trust Turkey, but, at the end of the day, Turkey, owing to her location, is essential to either side. NATO cannot trust her either. Know your enemies, better than you know yourself, so comes to mind. Do believe, Russia understands ‘The Art of War’ perfectly.
US has been planning to destroys Russia Ukraine and EU, even EU because EU is competitor of US’s trade.
That is the unwelcome truth, the US is destroying the EU, one of its competitors, with the complicity of the unelected, quisling EU leadership. Its like watching an evil hypnotist at work “OK, now throttle yourself by cutting off your own gas supply but until your economy expires completely make sure you buy our overpriced fracked gas and weapons”
The non-elected EU morons are more than happy for the US to take them down, and even encourage it. I wonder why?
Calling all western peoples. Take a good look at your present and past politicians, and other NWO types in their ranks, and when, in the near future, all chances of prosperity are lost, remember those who have led us all to personal ruin.
For the Turkish admin to U-turn like this means that the Turkish admin also acknowledge the fact that the US and its nato poodles are trying to surround Russia with its weapons with the intent on destroying the country. I can’t see the Turkish admin remaining in nato for very much longer, and i can’t see them wanting to either. Maybe Erdogan isn’t such and idiot after all, especially as his nato allies tried to have him killed during a coup.
Nato, if they are not shooting civilians, they are shooting themselves in the foot. Soon nato will be as the name suggests, confined to the north atlantic regions and shunned by future prosperous nations with their own reserve currency. Nato’s record says that this could be a good thing.
The World is waking up to the fact that America is the World’s problem child. They are hated world wide.
last summer russia was fighting with turkey in libya and armenia…