As in the years of the cold war, the United States and Russia meet again in a neutral country. Is about a first meeting in Switzerland to reduce the escalation of tension over Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin has raised the tone and brought to that negotiating table the message that he has been repeating for days: he has not put his missiles at the doors of the United States. Biden, on the other hand, yes. From the trenches you can already breathe the tension between the soldiers: “I want a peaceful solution, but I don’t think it will happen. “
Seven years after the agreement on paper to end the war in Ukraine, there are only going from ceasefire to ceasefire with constant skirmishes. And with Russia amassing troops and maneuvering on the border, Kiev and the West fear that it will prepare an invasion while maintaining support for pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. Ukraine centers the agenda of the meeting between the United States and Russia in Geneva.
The Swiss city has become neutral ground for meetings that Moscow already anticipated on Sunday night as “difficult.” The reasons: Putin does not want Ukraine and other ex-Soviet republics to join NATO. Nor that the Alliance has bases, troops or missiles in those countries targeting Russia. “Have we put missiles on the borders of the United States? No, it is the United States that has come with its missiles,” said the Russian president.
“Putin could be winning the game. He knows that if he destabilizes part of the territory, it is highly unlikely that NATO will incorporate Ukraine. The point is that Moscow not only tries to prevent this expansion of NATO, but also wants to control the sovereign will of some of these states, “explained Ruth Ferrero, professor of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. Low expectations in the face of a meeting that comes with the most tense relations between Washington and Moscow since the Cold War.
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