Brazen attempts to reorder the world in one’s own interest, violating UN principles, may beget instability, confrontation, and even catastrophe. Given the current level of international strife, recklessly rejecting the Yalta-Potsdam system, with the UN and UN Charter at its core, will inevitably lead to chaos.

One often hears that it is premature to speak of the desired world order at a time when we are still fighting to suppress the Western-supported forces of the racist regime in Kiev. This is, in our view, a baneful approach. The contours of the postwar world order, and the key points of the UN Charter, were discussed by the Allies at the height of World War II, including at the Moscow Conference of foreign ministers and the Tehran Conference of heads of state and government in 1943, and during other contacts between the future victorious powers, up to the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences in 1945. Although our allies already had a secret agenda, this did not detract from the enduring importance of the supreme principles of equality, non-interference in internal affairs, peaceful settlement of disputes, and “respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.