... were beneficial to them. Washington also avoided using the provisions of Section 232 of CAATSA, which remained “dormant.”
However, as the construction of Nord Stream 2 progressed, both the Trump Administration and Congress took a tougher stance. Donald Trump publicly criticized Germany and the EU
for purchasing Russian gas.
In 2019, as part of the US Defence Budget, Congress passed the Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act (PEESA). The law obliged the State Department to compile and maintain a list of seagoing vessels used to lay pipes on the seabed deeper ...
... attitude for making “America great again.” Though Putin’s style is soft on surface, he is clam and confident. Putin has also shown himself to be decisive throughout the military operation in Ukraine. He has a long-term vision for the betterment of Russia, as he even stepped down to act as Premier before being re-elected, now serving the country as President. Aside from belief and faith, the Chinese character “信” also connotes credibility and trust. If a leader’s credibility is high, he ...
... U-turn in the bilateral relationship became possible only thanks to the personal position of the 47th President of the United States. The changes remain fragile and reversible
At this moment, the main driver of the emerging positive dynamics of the Russian-American dialogue is the personal desire of President Donald Trump to become the main peacemaker in resolving the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Everything else, including the movement towards normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties, the surprising solidarity vote in the UN General Assembly, signals ...
... century.”
Andrey Kortunov:
Can U.S. New Tariffs Trigger Structural Changes in Global Economy?
On April 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump
unveiled
an early 20
th
-century type of economic policy, increasing tariffs on countries unseen since the
Great ... ... system be managed? The relative decline of the U.S. and new global policy changes have enabled countries like China, India, and Russia to emerge as global leaders in addressing these disorders. These great powers can potentially reshape the future world ...
... relations is already looming on the horizon.
Still, it would be an overstatement to argue that there is a broad consensus in Russia on the desirability to relaunch a substantive dialogue with the United States. A large part of the expert community and Russia’s public is firmly convinced that Donald Trump, just as any other US leader, cannot and should not be trusted and that Russian-US relations are doomed to remain confrontational no matter what Administration stays in the White House. The anti-American sentiments fly high in Moscow and ...
... extend the New START Agreement and decided to withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies. It is not clear how with such an attitude Donald Trump is planning to ensure that there will be no other dangerous crisis in Europe soon after a settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is reached.
To sum up, it is definitely good news that Donald Trump has finally come with some kind of a peace plane for Ukraine. To have something to consider and to discuss is undoubtedly better than to have nothing and to speculate about what the White House may or may not offer. Still, the Trump plan ...
... agreements they will be viewed by all participants as a temporary respite and will not systematically resolve the contradictions that gave rise to the crisis
The new White House administration in the US has given rise to speculation about negotiations with Russia on the Ukrainian conflict. Newly elected US President Donald Trump has stated that the settlement of the conflict is
a high priority task for the new authorities.
Russia has voiced its openness to negotiations based on the
Istanbul agreements of 2022.
After the inauguration of Trump in January 2025, a ...
Will Russia continue its “business as usual” aimed at maintaining the existing status-quo or will it be forced to review and to revise its positions towards Israel, Palestinians, Iran and its main partners in the Arab world?
The spectacular comeback of Donald Trump to the White House will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the US overall international positioning, as well as on specific dimensions of the US approaches to various regions of the world. Of course, the US foreign policy has a bipartisan ...
... will serve as the primary battleground between supporters of civilizational and globalist values, a battle whose axiological aspects are examined in this article.
The Civilizational Context of the U.S. Presidential Election and the Clash of Ideologies: Donald Trump’s Political Platform
Given the civilizational ties among Russia, Europe, and America, the upcoming U.S. presidential election on November 5, 2024, is exceptionally important—not only because of the ongoing confrontation between Russia and the West (as the winning side could significantly influence either ...
... congresspersons on Capitol Hill, by his political opponents in the Democratic Party, and by officials in his own administration who virtually sabotaged any attempts, no matter how small, to come to an understanding with the Kremlin. In other words, Donald Trump wanted the best and we know the rest.
This reasoning of Trump's fans in Russia and the U.S. is not entirely convincing, for the simple reason that Trump did not really “want the best” in each and every situation. Instead of reluctantly implementing other people’s destructive decisions, he very frequently “jumped the ...
