Dr Dimitar Bechev article in ‘Foreign Policy’ on NATO’s annual summit in Ankara

‘Trump’s initial push for a quick deal with Putin, a fellow strongman, went nowhere. The reasons are well known. They include Russia’s strategy of using negotiations as a fig leaf for securing its maximalist objectives, all the way to de facto ending Ukraine’s existence as an independent state, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s refusal to cede the remainder of Donetsk‘

Dr Dimitar Bechev’s article for Foreign Policy can be accessed here

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