And by "global economy", they mean Japan, most of Europe, the United States, Canada, and the majority of the British Commonwealth nations.
Meanwhile, Russia continues to do business with countries that comprise over half of the global population.
And by "global economy", they mean Japan, most of Europe, the United States, Canada, and the majority of the British Commonwealth nations.
Meanwhile, Russia continues to do business with countries that comprise over half of the global population.
So true! It has surprised me how fast the rest of the world is making adaptions to the new multi-polar world.
Some unexpected truth about our new geopolitical reality:
Things we were never told by the media concerning Putin’s trip to Iran. I posted this the other day, no one even commented. But, it sure surprised me. I thought they were going to discuss buying Iranian drones, not negotiating a stunner like this. “Actually, if these plans are destined to come true, we can talk about creating the most powerful gas monopoly in the world under the Russian roof.”
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Why oh why did our Deep State fools have to instigate this conflict with Russia. Trump did everything he could to keep Russia in our orbit and out of the hands of China, et al to the degree he could even in the face of them trying to destroy Trump and Putin. And now the demented mummy (or whoever has been directing him) has gotten us to this point...:-(((
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Expert opinion. Expert Yulia Yuzik, author of the telegram channel Yuzik-Iranian Power, on the significance of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iran.
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iran - the most strategically significant of his entire reign - seems to have borne fruit. But it’s too early to rejoice. There was little ceremony on this trip for Putin: after a short greeting with President Raisi, he went to meet Iran’s de facto head, Ayatollah Khamenei. Most of the negotiations were held behind closed doors.
The spiritual leader (rahbar) paused negotiations on a nuclear deal with the United States, waiting for Putin to arrive to see the final “case from Russia.” This package of proposals was supposed to outweigh the benefits of a deal with the Americans, but until the last moment it was not clear what Putin could offer the pragmatic Khamenei so that he would strategically go into the “Russian” orbit.
Prior to the trip, Putin laid a few cards on the table - he finally launched the North-South corridor, linking Russia with India through Iran. The latter has lobbied for this corridor since the time of Ahmadinejad, but the project has been frozen.
On July 11, it was reported that Russia would buy drones from Iran, and on July 15, Putin signed a law on Iran’s free trade with the Eurasian Economic Union. It was said that Russia would invest $7 billion in the Azadegan field, located on the Iran-Iraq border, and allowing both Iran and the Russian Federation to sell oil as “Iraqi”. All this was not bad, but it was not something that interrupted the American proposal.
And now in Tehran, Putin is seriously raising the stakes in this political casino: on July 19, Gazprom and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) sign a $40 billion memorandum of understanding. Gazprom plans to invest in the Kish, North Pars and South Pars gas fields. The French (Total), Italians (ENI) and Chinese fought hard for the latter. But even the Chinese, with their “deal of the century” for a quarter of a trillion dollars, were not allowed to enter South Pars by the Persians.
Actually, if these plans are destined to come true, we can talk about creating the most powerful gas monopoly in the world under the Russian roof. Not without reason at the Astana summit, under the guise of which the meeting of the heads of Russia, Iran and Turkey took place, was attended by Erdogan.
Formally, he came to resolve issues related to Syria and the Kurds in the north of the country (PKK), which are a serious headache for him. But behind the PKK, smiling and waving, are the Iranian IRGC, or rather, Al-Quds with its network proxy apparatus, and Moscow. So Erdogan will have to reckon with both Tehran and Moscow. Isn’t that why he had a mournful face throughout the summit?
The fact that Putin and Khamenei still agreed on something is also evidenced by the fact that the Iranian leader indirectly supported the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine (“if you had not taken the initiative, the other side had unleashed a war on its own initiative”), and through his military General announced his “readiness to export weapons.”
The price of such an alliance - investments, partnerships in oil and gas, Syria and Iraq, arms supplies - is hardly possible without including the S-400 in the bill. For without a Russian nuclear missile shield, Khamenei is hardly ready to make such high stakes against the US and Israel.
Let’s also not forget that Iran’s nuclear program continues outside of the deal, and this is what the Iranian leader sees as the only possible means of sovereignty. Obviously, Khamenei will continue to trade with the West, and the “window of diplomacy” will be open to the last, no matter what. That is, until about the end of the year, he will increase trading with the United States to the maximum and see if the Russian scheme works.
Putin has carte blanche in his hands today, which he can use. “The New World Order” is the headline of the Iranian edition of Mehr today. In it, Putin’s visit is considered precisely in the context of an alternative to Biden’s visit to the Middle East.
The stakes are high, the risks are serious (to the point that Moscow has put everything in Iran on one political force), the game is grandiose, but it is not over yet.