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Oct 25, 2026

Excellent piece by Ezio Mauro in Italy’s La Repubblica comparing potential meeting & dynamic among Trump, Putin & Xi to Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin in 1945.
“Today, however, the leaders of America, China, & Russia are united in their dismissive judgment of liberal democracy.”
https://www.repubblica.it/commenti/2026/10/25/news/jalta_putin_trump_usa_eziomauro-425672917/

#geopolitics #uspol #trump #putin

There are, naturally, many parallels to be drawn, even within a completely different context: first, the presumption—shared by the three powers—that they could determine the fate of other nations, a hallmark of imperial logic; second, the fact that, once again, a Central European state—Ukraine today, just as Poland was in the past—has become the central knot that must be untied; third, Putin’s desire to extend the banner of Russian sovereignty as far as Moscow’s tanks can reach—much as Stalin on

In reality, however, superimposing these two historical moments is a dangerous optical illusion, as it overlooks several fundamentally important political differences. At Yalta, the goal was to provide a political framework for the forces unleashed by the war; today, by contrast, the aim is to establish raw force as the very expression of politics. While the military might of the victors certainly weighed on the decisions made in February 1945, the agreements included a commitment to hold democr

Above all, the "Big Three" were guided by the agreements reached at the Tehran summit two years earlier, which set democracy and freedom as their stated horizon: "All peoples have the right to choose the form of government under which they will live, and the common goal is to build a world order governed by law and dedicated to the interests of peace, security, freedom, and common prosperity." This vision was effectively denied by Moscow immediately following the Yalta Conference and throughout

Should a three-way summit take place, it might potentially accelerate a resolution to Russia’s war of invasion in Ukraine, or perhaps facilitate a mediation by Putin in the ongoing, unresolved conflict between America and Iran. Yet, what we face is not a stabilizing triumvirate, but a subversive one. To resolve crises in other nations—crises often of their own making—without a negotiating table that includes the parties directly involved, constitutes an abuse of sovereignty and law. While this m

la RepubblicaUsa, Cina e Russia. Ma quel vertice non è la nuova Jalta

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Oct 25, 2026 · 09:25 UTC

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