Russian President Vladimir Putin sees the second Donald Trump administration as a small window of opportunity for achieving greater strategic stability for Russia, in particular through the conclusion of a new strategic nuclear arms control treaty. The New START treaty, which entered into force in February 2011 and was extended for another five years in 2021, is set to expire without possibility of further extension in February 2026. Any new treaty would contribute to the larger US-Russian rapprochement broached by the Donald Trump administration and cautiously but with some eagerness greeted by Putin.
The Kremlin immediately signaled its readiness to begin talks on a new treaty and other measures in order to maintain strategic stability with the advent of the second Trump administration in January 2025, seeing it as a window of opportunity – perhaps a very brief one – for reestablishing as many elements of Russian-American relations extant prior to the Biden administration so crucial for achieving Russia’s two overarching national security goals. Putin’s foreign and security policies always have been based on two mutually reinforcing fundamental principles: (1) the priority of Russian national security and (2) international stability.
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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.