The Kremlin suggested that the United States divide Europe into spheres of influence as during the Cold War.
During multilateral negotiations in Abu Dhabi, the Moscow delegation suggested that US representatives return to relations based on the Cold War model of 1946–1991; the Russian side then expressed similar ideas during a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's special envoys in Moscow. It is expected that Europe will be divided into zones of influence and an opportunity for Moscow to lead a renewed version of the Warsaw Pact organization, claims the "New York Times", citing American diplomats.
The logic of the Russian side is that the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States in the twentieth century laid down a system of agreements and lines of communication, and they prevented the parties from full-fledged acts of hostilities, the NYT interlocutors report the words of their colleagues. US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner responded by trying to point out to their negotiating partners that the world has changed too much in at least the last five years, but Putin's foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushkov, called the virtual return to the Cold War "the foundations of an indivisible security architecture."
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