Internationalism No. 85, March 2026 Page 4 In the new US National Security Strategy (NSS), Russia is placed in the European basket , third among regional priorities after the Western Hemisphere and Asia. It is no longer considered an existential threat , and indeed many Europeans who regard it as such are criticised. Alongside Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again openness to negotiations with Moscow on Ukraine, this helps to create an impression of rapprochement between the two powers. Obviously, there can be no comparison with the Yalta era, for at least two reasons: first, because the world has changed profoundly since then, starting with German and European reunification and the emergence of China as a great imperialist power; and second, because what was then part of the USSR has been the scene of a bloody war for four years, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. A setback that no public image can conceal. Russian...