U.S. President Donald Trump’s pursuit of a Ukrainian peace has stalled. This is so not for a lack of trying, but for a lack of Russia and Ukraine expertise in and around the White House. There is no full understanding of what drove the parties to war. Even the pernicious role of NATO expansion, particularly efforts to extend it to Ukraine, in underappreciated. Much has been said by Trump administration officials about the need to take into account Russia’s legitimacy national security interest, its upper and strengthening hand on the war front, and the irrationality of the Volodomyr Zelenskiy’s hardened version of the semi-fascist Maidan regime’s authoritarianism and the Ukrainian president’s weak hand at home, not just in the war, as Trump has noted.
Moreover, there are numerous contradictions between the variously proposed Ukrainian peace plans and between Russia’s declared positions and national interests, on the one hand, and the U.S. peace plan proposed the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump (www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-peace-deal-proposals-set-out-by-us-talks-paris-2025-04-25/). ………
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Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is an Expert Analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com. Websites: Russian and Eurasian Politics, gordonhahn.com and gordonhahn.academia.edu
Dr. Hahn is the author of the new book: Russian Tselostnost’: Wholeness in Russian Thought, Culture, History, and Politics (Europe Books, 2022). He has authored five previous, well-received books: The Russian Dilemma: Security, Vigilance, and Relations with the West from Ivan III to Putin (McFarland, 2021); Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the “New Cold War” (McFarland, 2018); The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction, 2002). He also has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media.
Dr. Hahn taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and was a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group.