In Kyiv, they explained why Putin’s rift with Obama first began
Russia hopes to get from Donald Trump a kind of repetition of the Yalta Conference, which would consolidate the division of spheres of influence in the world. Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Ukrainian Politics, political scientist Kost Bondarenko spoke about this at a press conference in Kyiv.
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“Traditionally, it has happened that Democrats in the United States primarily rely on and are fueled by the banking lobby, the financial system, which is quite cosmopolitan in nature and prone to flirting with various kinds of national minorities.
Republicans usually rely on industrial circles and express their interests. But industrial circles have a more pragmatic approach.
Accordingly, in Moscow it was decided that if Trump and the Republicans, who now dominate both the Senate and Congress, win, then it would be possible to try to find a common language, at least in order to partially lift the sanctions.
Russia cannot have such a warming of relations with the United States as during the Gorbachev era. Putin is not striving for this. The main thing for him is to lift a number of sanctions and give him a free hand to play more actively in those regions that seem to him to be a priority.
The maximum that Russia wants is to return to the concept of the so-called. “the second Yalta”, which was reached at the end of the presidency of George W. Bush - that it is necessary to sit down at the negotiating table and again redistribute spheres of political influence in the world.
In July 2009, during his first presidential visit to Moscow, Barack Obama, speaking at Moscow University, said that there would be no “second Yalta”, and that the United States considers itself the only center of influence in the world. The cooling of relations between the United States and Russia began from that moment. Now they are again trying to return to the theory of a “second Yalta,” says the Ukrainian expert.
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