Author: Andrew Higgins
Published on: 17/08/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:
President Vladimir V. Putin reiterated that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union. Mr. Putin said that his deepest concern is not an end to three and half years of bloodshed. Only this, he said, would remove “the root causes of the crisis” in Ukraine. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, unsubtly signaled the Kremlin’s ambitions by arriving at his Alaska hotel wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the letters “CCCP,” Cyrillic for USSR. But just before Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump met on Friday, Poland gave Moscow a pointed reminder that the old order is gone by holding a parade of tanks and other military hardware, much of it American-made, along the Vistula Andrei Klishas says Russia should have contacts with the West only “through binoculars and gunsights”. Insisting that Russia has the upper hand on the battlefield and is “liberating more and more territories” Russia presented NATO and the United States with draft treaties demanding that NATO retreat from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever entering the alliance. Putin’s push to reshape the post Cold War order has been his effort to weaken or destroy the trans-Atlantic relationship created after World War II. On that score, the invasion of Ukraine has backfired, increasing NATO’s presence near Russia’s borders. Finland, which has an 830-mile border with Russia, in 2023 cast aside decades of military nonalignment to join the NATO alliance. But Mr. Trump sowed discord in the alliance in Alaska by adopting covers a region that stretches from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Kosovo, Serbia and other parts of former Yugoslavia.

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