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t is hard to imagine that the bombing of a government headquarters at war by its enemy – as Kyiv experienced during the night of Saturday, September 6, to Sunday, September 7 – could serve as a prelude to a ceasefire or a summit between the two leaders involved. The outcomes of the US-Russia meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, quickly soured. Nothing good came of it.
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From Moscow to Washington, a month-long diplomatic sprint over Ukraine
As a strategist, Donald Trump cannot, at this stage, be compared to his Republican predecessor Richard Nixon, who in 1972 normalized relations with Beijing to weaken Moscow. Nor could he be likened to Ronald Reagan, who helped bring about the USSR's irreversible decline by holding firm to his strategic vision during his 1986 meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik.
