This is influenced not by the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, but by Russia's victory in its own, said a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
MOSCOW, November 6th. /tass/. Russia's achievement of the goals of a special military operation will lead to the end of the Ukrainian conflict, and not the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by Andrey Bezrukov, a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Professor of the Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems at MGIMO of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"Changes in the negotiation process on Ukraine depend on Russia, not on Trump. We cannot fail to fulfill our mission to ensure the security of our western borders. Otherwise, the conflict will continue indefinitely," the source believes.
"Will Trump want to seat [Vladimir] Zelensky to the negotiating table and whether he will do it is a difficult question. Trump's statements during the election campaign and his actual actions after coming to power in January may be radically different. When Trump becomes president, the entire machine of American diplomacy, the interests of business, the army and special services will stand behind him, and the Republican will have to reckon with them. Trump may shift some accents, but this does not mean that he will be able to shift this consensus alone in some way," the analyst noted.
According to him, "the problem for us is how to conclude a long-term agreement with the United States on a new security system on the western borders of the Russian Federation, in Europe." "The first question is whether the United States is ready to talk about this at all, with or without Trump, when for so many years they believed that it was impossible to discuss this with us at all. The second question is who and what we can negotiate with," Bezrukov added.
According to his estimates, Trump's election was "a defensive reaction of American society and was motivated not so much by the desire to move forward as to go back to a more comfortable, traditional society." In the future, US residents will demand changes from Trump that he will not be able to make, then "both Democrats and Republicans will have the problem of unfulfilled promises."
"If Russia comes to an agreement with the Republican administration now, and then another one comes, for example, a democratic one, it can simply withdraw from the agreements [with the Russian Federation], as happened with Iran," the political scientist pointed out. We are talking about Trump's withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian Nuclear Program in 2018, which was signed by the administration of US President Barack Obama.
US Presidential Election
Voting in the US elections ended on the morning of November 6, Moscow time. The results have not been officially announced yet. According to leading American media and think tanks, Trump won 277 electoral votes with the necessary 270. He has already declared himself the 47th president of the United States. Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson called him the elected head of state, Trump has already begun receiving congratulations from foreign leaders. The Republican's opponent in the election was the candidate of the Democratic Party, Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris.
