Guest essay by Dmitriy Trenin in The Multiplural World, Dec 5, 2024
NATO-member countries know they have lost their proxy war in Ukraine, but they oppose a genuine peace
(Dmitry Trenin is a professor at HSE University (Higher School of Economics) in Moscow and a member of the Russian International Affairs Council. This essay was first published in RT International on Dec 6, 2024.)
Related analysis: NATO has lost the arms race but continues to escalate the Ukraine war, interview with analyst Gilbert Doctorow (in Belgium), broadcast on ‘Reason To Resist’ (Substack page of host Dimitri Lascaris), Dec 3, 2024 (70 minutes) [In this highly informative interview, Gilbert Doctorow explains that he is profoundly disappointed in Donald Trump because he expected Trump to ease the aggressive, imperialist foreign policy of the United States. But Doctorow sees an aggressive course unfolding, citing, in partuclar, Trump’s threats against the BRICS bloc of countries should they proceed with efforts to create an alternative reserve currency to the U.S. dollar for trade transaction. The reality is that Trump will pick up where he left off in 2020, naive believers in a possible alternative course notwithstanding.]
