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Tag: US-Russia relations

Trump’s fake peace plan for Ukraine

US President Donald Trump’s current plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine focuses on short-term gain over any long-term solutions. While potential business deals are prioritized, issues regarding human rights remain overlooked in many key areas.

December 15, 2025 - David J. Simon

Putin won Alaska

Interview with Volodymyr Dubovyk, Professor of International Relations at Odesa’s Mechnikov National University and Senior Fellow at CEPA. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

August 29, 2025 - Vazha Tavberidze Volodymyr Dubovyk

A recipe for an unfair stalemate, not a just peace

Donald Trump’s way of doing diplomacy weakens Ukraine’s negotiating position potentially setting the stage for the war’s continuation.

August 20, 2025 - Cory Alpert

Western diplomacy towards Russia and the Logic of Failure: why territorial concessions will not end Russia’s war

US President Donald Trump’s diplomacy with Putin over Ukraine remains wholly focused on the issue of land. However, the conflict ultimately represents a dispute at a much deeper level. In order to understand this, we must look at theoretical models that can shed light on why the conflict started in the first place.

August 14, 2025 - Alexander Sicheneder

The Russo-Ukrainian War after four months of Trump: what is next?

The returning US president promised that he would bring a quick end to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Despite this, attempts to get Moscow to come to the table are still ongoing. A realistic assessment of the status quo is necessary if we are to move forward from the current impasse.

May 26, 2025 - Valerii Pekar

American-Russian rapprochement as a threat to Europe

Europe now finds itself in a position that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. As Washington and Moscow continue discussions on issues such as Ukraine, the continent must stress to its traditional ally the need for mutual security.

April 15, 2025 - Valerii Pekar

Time to abandon western Russophobia

The West would be wise not to ignore Russia’s escalating domestic challenges. The Soviet Union was also conducting special military operations and disinformation campaigns abroad in the years preceding its collapse.

September 2, 2022 - Janusz Bugajski

Is today’s Russia a “USSR 2.0”? Putin wants us to think so

The West’s lack of inner cohesion, slow reactions and a preference for dialogue provide the Kremlin with a chance to effectively play its own game. Putin surely discovered a long time ago that bluffing and good brinkmanship are enough for the West to do everything to prevent conflict. There is only one condition: it must believe that Putin's Russia is a “USSR 2.0”.

“I think that’s right,” said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on January 9th when asked by CNN if he agreed that Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to restore the Soviet Union. “I think that’s one of President Putin’s objectives, and it is to re-exert a sphere of influence over countries that previously were part of the Soviet Union.” This is exactly what the Russian president would like the West to believe. Whilst the head of US diplomacy was making this statement, Russian-American negotiations were about to start in Geneva.

February 15, 2022 - Agnieszka Bryc

How should the EU deal with Russia after Navalny’s poisoning?

Steps towards managing the European Union’s relations with Russia need a long-term perspective and a corresponding political dynamic that requires audacity. The once commonly-held vision of co-operative security in Europe, enshrined in the OSCE’s founding documents, may seem unachievable now, but it should not be lost out of sight.

When the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny released the video “Putin’s palace” in January 2021, upon his return to Russia from Germany after being poisoned with a military-grade substance called Novichok in August 2020, the showdown began. No doubt, Navalny and his political organisation have always been a thorn in the Russian regime’s side. Yet the stakes have risen since investigative journalists revealed the details of the poisoning as being carried out by Russian intelligence agents. Since then the “Berlin patient” seems to have been elevated to public enemy number one by the Russian ruling regime.

June 23, 2021 - Alexandra Dienes

Andrei Gromyko congratulates Joe Biden

In 2011 Joe Biden, as the US vice president during his visit to Moscow, said to Vladimir Putin: “Mr Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.” Putin replied: “We understand one another”. This anecdote seems to be a prophecy of a rough co-existence without any signs of fondness. Clearly Putin and most of the current Russian political elite are very sceptical towards Biden.

February 3, 2021 - Kuba Benedyczak

The West Berlins of our time

An interview with Brian Whitmore, a senior fellow and director of the Russia Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Interviewer: Adam Reichardt

ADAM REICHARDT: I would like to start with a question on one of the main topics we are covering in this issue – which is the movement of some in the West, like French President Emmanuel Macron, and others, who are calling for more dialogue with Russia. Foreign Affairs recently published a piece by Thomas Graham titled “Let Russia be Russia”, where the author writes that the West “should give up any ambitions of expanding NATO farther into the former Soviet space.” What is your take on this? Why are so many voices calling for better relations with Russia despite the fact that Russia has made zero concessions or offered any compromises after its aggression in Ukraine or interference and disinformation campaigns in the West?

BRIAN WHITMORE: There are two ways to look at this. First is the cynical view, that Russia is using its financial network of influence in Europe and the West to push these messages. The other interpretation is that there is a certain level of naiveté in the West when it comes to Russia, and especially Vladimir Putin. Whatever the case, we have to ask ourselves some serious questions here. When we have voices saying, “We should have a dialogue with Russia” – the question is, dialogue about what?

January 28, 2020 - Adam Reichardt Brian Whitmore

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