Russia and the US as founders of a new security architecture

Written for Kosovo Online by Zeljko Sajn

In the creation of a new multipolar world order, whose development depends on dialogue and compromise to end war activities and ensure lasting peace, the Russian Federation and the US have shown a willingness to sit at the negotiation table, aiming to enter history as the creators of a new order and founders of a new security architecture.

The position of the Russian leadership, with President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin at the helm, is clear: the Russian Federation enters negotiations with the situation on the ground already established, which means that Ukraine will be territorially redefined. In addition, Putin has particularly emphasized that the priority of the Russian Federation is its permanent security protection, meaning that Ukraine cannot become part of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Although NATO's command center, led by the US, has provided logistical support to Ukraine, as did the US itself in supporting Ukraine and its President Zelensky in the war conflict with Russia, former US President Biden emphasized that America does not want a conflict with Russia.

On the other hand, French President Macron, with political forces in the creation of a European coalition with selected EU members, advocates for the continuation of the military conflict in Ukraine, portraying Russia as the aggressor and the sole culprit for this military conflict. We also recall the efforts of former British Prime Minister Johnson to prevent the signing of a ceasefire in Istanbul. Additionally, former British Prime Minister Theresa May stated in Skopje that Russia has no place on the Balkans or in Europe.

Considering all these facts, along with the historical goals pursued by Napoleon and Hitler, the intentions of the leaders of this community towards the Russian Federation are clear. Due to all these steps, which should also include the fact that the Minsk agreements served as a cover for preparing the military scenario in Donbas, which was confirmed by former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and former French President François Hollande, the war in Ukraine has lasted for over three years, and the world fears a global Third World War and the use of nuclear weapons.

Unlike the Biden administration, Donald Trump showed a different direction in foreign policy at the beginning of his mandate – one aimed at peace. The establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and the Russian Federation with Trump at the helm gave the world hope that peace is achievable and that the world is on the brink of a new multipolar order, without hegemony, with the hope that hypocritical policies, especially those we witness on the Balkans, would become part of history or at least an exception to the rule in the global political scene.

Both Trump and Putin, through prominent journalists and media outlets, including Belgrade's Politika, have conveyed messages that their goal is to form a global multipolar world with a new Eurasian security architecture, where NATO and EU member states must abandon hostilities, especially towards the Russian Federation.

The activities of the Russian Federation and the US in establishing diplomatic relations and finding solutions to end the war in Ukraine remind us of the birth of a modified Peace of Westphalia, where the agreement in Riyadh would lay the foundations of the new multipolar world order, and define new borders. Putin's representatives are discussing with Trump's diplomatic team the future Eurasian security architecture. It is certain that it will involve Russia, the US, China, Japan, Europe, and India, and will be shaped according to the model described by Kissinger in his book Diplomacy, covering the period after the Cold War.

As Alexey Dobrynin said in an interview with Politika, the Eurasian security architecture will extend from Lisbon to Beijing. However, such a security architecture is undesirable for the current French and British leadership, as it would make it meaningless to portray Russia as a threat to Europe. Although Putin denied this precisely through the special military operation in Ukraine, not advancing on neighboring EU member countries. Certainly, the European Union and NATO fear for the survival of their organizations, which will undoubtedly undergo reforms, primarily organizational ones.

What is certain, as predicted by Kissinger, is that Putin, over his twenty-five years of rule over Russia, has secured a new security sector stemming from the BRICS Summit. Trump has adopted the BRICS Summit strategy to create a new multipolar world order, based on balanced relations, without hegemony, where the Russian Federation and the US, as the most significant military-political powers, will lead the world into a new order, with natural resources as its foundation.

Russia and BRICS have made a gentlemanly move toward a step forward in the new world order and peace preservation, leaving Trump to align relations with the EU and NATO, to end hostilities, particularly towards Russia, and jointly secure the architecture of peace. Recently, during the visit of the NATO Secretary General, Trump emphasized that they should jointly participate in creating a new security architecture that they would control together. However, given that NATO is a military-political organization led by the US, it is logical that this security architecture should primarily include the Russian Federation and countries from Lisbon to Beijing and from Mariupol to New Delhi, as discussed by Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs analyst Alexey Dobrynin in an interview with Politika.

America is economically exhausted and cannot finance any war zone, let alone the NATO pact, and requires each NATO member state to increase its national budget by five percent. Otherwise – but also certainly – NATO will be reformed. Trump believes that the internal economic crisis will be overcome by new sources of rare natural metals, maintaining America as the world's strongest economy. BRICS has unofficially left Trump an open space, through diplomatic relations, to compete in Commonwealth member countries and control rare minerals in the Arctic, which are found at great depths in marine and oceanic surfaces.

We will see how the security architecture will be built and how the balance of power will be distributed in the new world order, but the development of events certainly depends on dialogue and compromise, and the Russian Federation and the US have shown a willingness to provide peace to the world and enter history as creators of the new multipolar order. It is expected that Trump will extract his country from the criminal act being carried out against Russia on the ground of Ukraine, which will undoubtedly be territorially redefined. On the other hand, it is expected that France will remain the same as during Napoleon's time – hostile to Russia, but in the modern era. The changes that will occur will reflect on the Balkans and Serbia.