Seventy-five years ago this week, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met in Yalta to agree on the division of post-World War II Europe. Now, Vladimir Putin wants to assemble the presidents of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to do something even more sweeping: to agree on those for what might be called the post-post-Cold War world.
Mr. Putin’s call at a meeting in Jerusalem on January 23 for such a meeting has drawn support only from France, China and the United Nations. The United States and the United Kingdom have not yet signaled how they will respond. But speculation about what such a meeting might lead to is rife, especially in Moscow.