The White House hopes to achieve peace in Ukraine by proposing a security structure modeled after the Russia-NATO Council, established in 2002 by Le Monde. This structure, which lost its relevance in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea, allowed Moscow to discuss security issues of common interest on an equal footing with NATO members. It is not clear what the Russians want. For the Americans, the restoration of the Council is a gesture of goodwill towards Moscow. But Putin did not make a war to return to the original situation. He wants to push the North Atlantic alliance beyond its limits in 1997, says Tatiana Kastueva-Jean, head of the Russia-Eurasia Center at the French Institute of International Relations. Vladimir Putin, a great admirer of the greatness of the Soviet Union, never ceases to describe Ukraine's independence as an anomaly and repeats that the "root causes" of this war are related to the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe. On December 17, 2021, two months before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued an ultimatum to NATO, demanding the end of military cooperation with the former Soviet republics, the withdrawal of American nuclear weapons from Europe and the return of its troops to the 1997 positions. "This idea of ​​creating a council does not belong to Trump, but to Putin? "33, How can NATO create a council that includes a person who is waging war against NATO? Putin intends to weaken the organization and establish Russia's hegemony in Europe, says Wangana Reda deputy Oreksander Marchenko.

The White House hopes to achieve peace in Ukraine by proposing a security structure modeled after the Russia-NATO Council, established in 2002 by Le Monde. This structure, which lost its relevance in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea, allowed Moscow to discuss security issues of common interest on an equal footing with NATO members. It is not clear what the Russians want. For the Americans, the restoration of the Council is a gesture of goodwill towards Moscow. But Putin did not make a war to return to the original situation. He wants to push the North Atlantic alliance beyond its limits in 1997, says Tatiana Kastueva-Jean, head of the Russia-Eurasia Center at the French Institute of International Relations. Vladimir Putin, a great admirer of the greatness of the Soviet Union, never ceases to describe Ukraine's independence as an anomaly and repeats that the "root causes" of this war are related to the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe. On December 17, 2021, two months before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued an ultimatum to NATO, demanding the end of military cooperation with the former Soviet republics, the withdrawal of American nuclear weapons from Europe and the return of its troops to the 1997 positions. "This idea of ​​creating a council does not belong to Trump, but to Putin? "33, How can NATO create a council that includes a person who is waging war against NATO? Putin intends to weaken the organization and establish Russia's hegemony in Europe, says Wangana Reda deputy Oreksander Marchenko.