Here are some general comments on some of the points of U.S. President Donald Trump’s November 2025 28-point peace plan to end the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War.
ON POINTS 1-5 ON UKRAINIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY AND EUROPEAN SECURITY:
The first five points imply an understanding that as a result of geopolitical realities and three decades of NATO expansionism Ukraine’s state soveriegnty and national security are impossible to achieve without a full reconstruction of European security architecture. That architecture was dismantled by NATO expansion and moves and countermoves resulting from it. Therefore, as I noted a decade ago, a two-tier negotiating process is needed to solve the Ukraine crisis and war which are symptoms of the dismantling old European and Russian security provoked by NATO expansion (https://gordonhahn.com/2015/02/13/minsk-2-0-the-road-to-minsk-3-0-or-a-bigger-war/and https://gordonhahn.com/2017/11/27/a-un-peacekeeping-mission-for-ukraine/). One tier must address the larger NATO/West-Russia conflict in which the second-tier conflict is imbedded. This upper tier would involve talks between the West and Russia. They might need to be trilateral talks, given the growing rift between the U.S. and Europe. Interconnected with the upper tier would be the trilateral, even quadrilateral (including the EU separate from the US) talks needed to settle the Ukrainian war.
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About the Author –
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.