Iran is heroic. Iran's resistance is genuine and its costs have been enormous
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Let me say the uncomfortable thing directly.
The critique that Russia and China "stand for nothing" comes, in many cases, from a political tradition that loves resistance as an aesthetic and is less comfortable with resistance as a project.
Resistance as aesthetic is:
The speech.
The gesture.
The flag.
The recognition.
The statement of solidarity.
The vote at the United Nations.
Resistance as project is:
Building the institutions.
Maintaining the alliances.
Absorbing the economic costs.
Making the decisions that preserve enough power to actually change conditions on the ground.
Iran is heroic.
Iran's resistance is genuine and its costs have been enormous and the Iranian people deserve every acknowledgment of what they have endured.
Iran is also, because of those costs, economically devastated, regionally isolated, increasingly reliant on its relationships with China and Russia, and unable on its own to generate the sustained economic and institutional power required to shift the global balance.
Iran chose dignity. That choice is real and it deserves respect.
Russia and China are choosing to build the world that comes after American hegemony.
These are different projects.
One is about bearing witness to the crimes of power.
The other is about replacing the architecture of power with something that doesn't require the next Iran to choose between dignity and survival.
Both matter.
But the second one is harder, less photogenic, and takes longer.
Don't mistake the timeframe for cowardice.
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:43
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