Editorial, "THE TRI-POWER TANGLE," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, Vol. 17, Part 1, No. 12, 30 JUNE 2021 issue

THE TRI-POWER TANGLE 

Two important events of immense international impact occurred recently – the Putin-Biden Summit in Geneva on 16 June and the video meet of President Xi Jinping and President Putin on 28 June - exposing the tricky tri-power tangle now perplexing the world. This editor was quite averse to Putin of Russia, the real successor to the Soviet Union, meeting the warmonger President Biden of America even, without Biden saying even a formal ‘sorry’ for hurling a ‘Putin the killer’ abuse soon after his coming to power (by egregious electoral fraud). But, it seems Putin swallowed his personal pride for something beyond – an assurance of some degree of peace and stability and prevention of any further destruction spree by the belligerent superpower; but, in the end could not achieve substantial gains – we have seen how the US reneged on its solemn promises (made to the earlier Soviet Union) not to expand NATO to East Europe, also insidiously engineered a ‘regime change’ and installed a neo-Nazi vassal government in Ukraine but when Russia has taken the needed counter measures to protect its interests and rightfully merged Crimea in it as per the overwhelming YES vote in a popular referendum there, America and its lackeys have taken it as a serious affront and imposed strict sanctions on Russia. The sanctions were not lifted but just an agreement to exchange ambassadors, and to reopen the talks on strategic arms limitation agreements was made. Even after the summit vile efforts to assert the American camp’s right to pass through ‘Georgian’ waters made, when in effect those were ‘Russian’, as shown by the recent HMS Defender fiasco wantonly provoked by the British PM, Boris Johnson, as directed by his American masters. In contrast, Russia-China good relations, developed steadily since the bilateral Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation signed 20 years ago, were further promoted by extension of the treaty in the video meeting between Xi and Putin on 28 June. That serves as a bulwark against the US and NATO machinated aggressive and genocidal neo-imperialist invasions and mayhems; and as a solid booster to the development of third world countries and their commitment to an equitable world based on established international treaties and rules under the UN auspices instead of the chaotic so-called ‘rule-based world order’ sought to be imposed by the capitalist hegemonic powers of the West under the leadership of the American imperialists. §§§