The US president’s push for the award captures the spirit of our age
In the early 1980s, former US President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm. At a reception he approached Stig Ramel, the long-serving executive director of the Nobel Foundation, and asked with some bitterness why he had not received the Peace Prize for brokering the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
“If I had been awarded it, I might have been re-elected for a second term,”
Carter remarked. He had lost to Ronald Reagan...
... Russia cannot be excluded from the international system. This simple fact means disputes between Moscow and the West, however sharp, are solvable in principle. Competition will remain fierce, especially over Ukraine. But after Anchorage, the Western refusal to acknowledge Russian interests is no longer an insurmountable barrier.
Trump’s domestic victory
For Trump, Alaska delivered something equally valuable: a domestic win. In the US, relations with Russia have become central to the internal political ...
It is possible that at some point we will see a special Brazilian model for solving the problem of “weaponised interdependence”
US President Donald Trump has
imposed new tariffs on Brazil
. They are 40% in addition to the 10% that Washington imposed on all countries
back in early April 2025.
At first glance, the event may seem routine against the backdrop of the Trump Administration’s many steps to increase tariffs on a wide variety of countries, including both opponents and allies of the United...
The beginning of summer 2025 was not the calmest for Eurasia and Russian policy in this vast region
The beginning of summer 2025 was not the calmest for Eurasia and Russian policy in this vast region. The military-political crisis around Iran, if it escalates further, could significantly affect the potential for cooperation and international security. Russia's relations with previously friendly Armenia, a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union...
Trump is trying to curb the new rise of the alternative BRICS globalization approach
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern ultimatum to Russia, BRICS member states, and their economic partners. He warned that unless a peace agreement with Ukraine is signed within 50 days—by September 3, 2025—Washington will impose a 100% import tariff on goods from Russia, as well as “secondary” tariffs on countries that would continue buying Russian oil and gas. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside NATO...
... strikes following conventional escalation. The former scenario proves politically less sustainable, risking Russia's designation as aggressor and consequent international isolation. The latter, while slightly reducing political costs, still permits accusations that Moscow violated the nuclear taboo first. However, apart from politics, other things are equally important. Both scenarios preserve NATO's capacity to deliver nuclear or conventional counterstrikes. Any Russian nuclear deployment risks devastating ...
... could speak boldly, posture grandly. But in the three years since, not much has changed. Despite grand declarations and strategy papers, the bloc has failed to meaningfully expand its defense capacity. At most, they might manage to recruit a few thousand mercenaries from impoverished Balkan states to send to the front.
Even this is unlikely. Any serious move toward independent military power in Western Europe will immediately trigger scrutiny from Washington. The US has no intention of allowing ...
... precisely the existence of nuclear superpowers, with which no one can compare in power. Even if another ten or more countries manage to obtain nuclear weapons, they are unlikely to be able to create such quantities as to threaten the existence of the USA or Russia, not to mention the fate of all mankind. This means that Orwell's “peace that is nopeace” will remain in the foreseeable future.
Second, since volumes comparable to Russia, the USA or, probably, China are not achievable, this does not ...
In the West’s eyes, Russia must be destroyed. That leaves us no choice
Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century. But war evolves. It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear standoff. In fact, the new world war is already underway – it’s just that not everyone has recognized it yet.
For Russia, the pre-war period ended in 2014. For China, it was 2017. For Iran, 2023. Since...
For Moscow, the real war is global, and it’s just begun
The trademark style of the current US president, Donald Trump, is verbal spectacle. His statements – brash, contradictory, sometimes theatrical – should be monitored, but not overestimated. They are not inherently favorable or hostile to Russia. And we must remember: Trump is not the
‘king’
of America. The
‘Trump revolution’
that many anticipated at the beginning of the year appears to have given way to Trump’s own evolution – a drift...
