The upcoming Russian-American summit in Alaska opens a qualitatively new round of geopolitical games, which can be tentatively called great power diplomacy. It also encompasses such concepts as post-American, post-Soviet, post-European and, finally, post-Ukrainian. Accordingly, all elements of the worldview we are accustomed to are being devalued to varying degrees and at different rates, not only since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR, but also over the last two centuries.
Concepts such as strategic stability and arms control, globalisation and ideological confrontation have been thrown out the window. NATO is losing its meaning and the European Union is on the verge of collapse. Atlantic politics and the West are being replaced by cultural and civilisational multipolarity and the associated new highly competitive global environment with its diversity of values and development models.
Russia's victory in the arms race, both strategic and conventional, and now on the battlefield during the special military operation in Ukraine, is radically changing the role and place of power politics in international relations: Moscow is rewriting its rules and imposing them on the West. Therefore, we are unlikely to face a repeat of the missile crisis in Europe in connection with the creation of the ‘Oreshnik’ and the end of the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles. Much more important is the monetisation of resources, a new stage of which (after ‘paper gold’) is being opened by the legalisation in the United States of stablecoins pegged to the dollar.
The entry of Russian troops into Paris in March 1814 marked the beginning of a long-term policy by Western powers in various configurations, including the Crimean War and then the Entente, to contain Russia. Only now, more than two centuries later and having overcome all illusions about the West and its values, have we gained the opportunity to build positive relations on an equal footing with other superpowers, primarily the United States and China. At the same time, as then, we must pursue an integrated, offensive foreign policy aimed at national development. This, it seems, is Russia's key foreign policy challenge.
Against this backdrop, the settlement of the war in Ukraine, long since lost by the West, is taking a back seat in relations between the United States and Russia — no more than an obstacle to their normalisation, which must be overcome jointly. Ukraine will have to pay for the ceasefire with a peace treaty recognising the new borders, which will have to be concluded quickly.
The most important element of the plan that will be proposed by Moscow and Washington to V. Zelensky (the Americans are keeping him in power for this purpose) may be federalisation/decentralisation, giving regions the right to develop, among other things, historical ties with Russia.
Strangely enough, Washington and Moscow have effectively worked together to destroy Europe, from which it is unlikely to recover in the foreseeable future, combined with development problems in the spirit of ‘civilisational suicide’ (Jay Dee Vance). That is why it will have no voice in the negotiations in Alaska.
Предстоящий на Аляске российско-американский саммит открывает качественно новый раунд геополитической игры, который условно можно назвать великодержавной... РИА Новости, 14.08.2025
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