Peloni: A key want from Russia is to finally have a pan-European security arrangement which includes rather than isolates Russia. The problem with this is, and always has been, that NATO as the existing European security arrangement, is a US dominated organization, and US fears of Russia having more relevance than America in a European security arrangement has maintained this anti-Soviet organization in place some thirty years after the Russians themselves laid to rest the Soviet Union. It will be interesting to see how Trump squares this knot, but there is an ever increasing benefit to be had with strengthening, or at least creating, ties with Russia rather than continuing to press them further into China’s pocket, so to speak.
Trump may be more than willing to trade with the Russians on NATO in exchange for less punitive demands on Ukraine.
Stephen Bryen | Weapons & Strategy | Nov 07, 2024
Mr. Zelensky (left) and Mr. Trump in New York at Trump Tower.7
There are a growing number of reports on what the forthcoming Trump administration will do domestically and what policy approach it will have globally. There have been a number of comments, some of them coming from administration wannabes, on what President-elect Trump should do about Ukraine.
Trump promised during the campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine pretty quickly once he took office. He has hinted he would do this by engaging Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky. Beyond that we have a guessing game.
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