{"id":754424,"date":"2022-07-21T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=131682"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:52:56","slug":"india-russia-iran-eurasias-new-transportation-powerhouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/21\/india-russia-iran-eurasias-new-transportation-powerhouses\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Russia-Iran: Eurasia\u2019s new transportation powerhouses"},"content":{"rendered":"
No longer just an ‘alternative route’ on a drawing board, the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) is paying dividends in a time of global crisis. And Moscow, Tehran and New Delhi are now leading players in the Eurasian competition for transportation routes.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>Photo Credit: The Cradle<\/em><\/p>\n Tectonic shifts continue to rage through the world system with nation-states quickly recognizing that the \u201cgreat game\u201d as it has been played since the establishment of the Bretton Woods monetary system in the wake of the second World War, is over.<\/p>\n But empires never disappear without a fight, and the Anglo-American one is no exception, overplaying its hand, threatening and bluffing its way, right to the end.<\/p>\n End of an order<\/strong><\/p>\n It seems no matter how many sanctions the west imposes on Russia, the victims most affected are western civilians. Indeed, the severity of this political blunder is such that the nations of the trans-Atlantic are heading towards the greatest self-induced food and energy crisis in history.<\/p>\n While the representatives of the \u201cliberal rules-based international order<\/a>\u201d continue on their trajectory to crush all nations that refuse to play by those rules, a much saner paradigm has come to light in recent months that promises to transform the global order entirely.<\/p>\n The multipolar solution <\/strong><\/p>\n Here we see the alternative security-financial order which has arisen in the form of the Greater Eurasian Partnership<\/a>. As recently as 30 June at the 10th St Petersburg International Legal Forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin described<\/a> this emerging new multipolar order as:<\/p>\n A multipolar system of international relations is now being formed. It is an irreversible process; it is happening before our eyes and is objective in nature. The position of Russia and many other countries is that this democratic, more just world order should be built on the basis of mutual respect and trust, and, of course, on the generally accepted principles of international law and the UN Charter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Since the inevitable cancellation of western trade with Russia after the Ukraine conflict erupted in February, Putin has increasingly made clear that the strategic re-orientation of Moscow\u2019s economic ties from east to west had to make a dramatically new emphasis on north to south and north to east relations<\/em> not only for Russia\u2019s survival, but for the survival of all Eurasia.<\/p>\n Among the top strategic focuses of this re-orientation is the long overdue International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC<\/a>).<\/p>\n