{"id":15650,"date":"2022-07-22T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15650"},"modified":"2022-07-22T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:48:38","slug":"seeking-axis-of-good-against-u-s-russia-taps-allies-of-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/seeking-axis-of-good-against-u-s-russia-taps-allies-of-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking \u2018Axis of Good\u2019 Against U.S., Russia Taps Allies of Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trilateral meeting of the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey seemed to suggest a new anti-American alliance. But there are major fissures between the countries, too.<\/p>\n

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BRUSSELS \u2014 Commenting on\u00a0the visit of Vladimir V. Putin to Iran, a member of the Russian Parliament and television talking head, Yevgeny G. Popov, said that the two countries hoped to form an \u201caxis of good,\u201d mocking former President George W. Bush\u2019s description of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an \u201caxis of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trolling American foreign-policy blunders and rhetoric is a popular sport in Russia, from Mr. Putin, the president, on down, but the growing affection between Russia and Iran is that of two isolated, sanctions-stricken countries whose main connection is their active opposition to the United States, its allies and its domination of the multilateral world order.<\/p>\n

While the United States likes to wrap its alliances in grandiloquent words about shared values and democracy, Russia, Iran and China, Moscow\u2019s other openly supportive pal and American rival, are far more transactional in their connections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But transactional relations do not make for lasting alliances or disguise the strains within them.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is isolated on the global stage in a way it\u2019s never been,\u201d said Charles A. Kupchan, a former American official who is a professor at Georgetown University. \u201cPutin is looking for recognition and acceptance wherever he can get it, and that he can get it in Tehran speaks volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Even China, which has stood by its anti-American partnership with Russia, \u201chas carefully kept its distance from the war in Ukraine,\u201d Mr. Kupchan said. \u201cAnd even though the lion\u2019s share of the world\u2019s countries aren\u2019t enforcing the sanctions regime against Russia, they get it: that Russia\u2019s invasion was a bald act of aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Read the full article on the site of the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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