Russia has lost interest for now in participating any time soon another round of talks with Washington and Kiev in the negotiation process kicked off by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. The reasons are manifold and include the increasingly erratic and duplicitous behavior of Russia’s interlocutors, consequences emanating from the U.S./Israeli-Iranian or Third Gulf War, and growing dissatisfaction across Russia because of the behaviors and consequences, all of which I detail below.
On March 30th Ukrainian leader Volodomyr Zelenskiy stated that he was interested in re-starting the stalled peace talks, reiterating that he was ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin anywhere but in Russia and Belarus and reviving the idea of a truce on attacks on energy infrastructure. There was no response from Moscow. Oddly, the next day Zelenskiy told yet another absurd lie by claiming that “the Americans” had told him that the Russians were giving him two months to withdraw from Donbass or else Moscow would toughen its demands. The Russians promptly denied they had communicated anything of the sort to Washington but continued to ignore Zelenskiy’s apparent call to continue the talks begun in Abu Dhabi and continued in Geneva in January and February.
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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.