![]() ![]() At the same time, Russia will continue to deepen partnerships with China and India and to enhance cooperative relations with US allies and partners like Japan, South Korea, and, when possible, Western European countries. ![]() No major improvement in relations with the United States is in sight, mainly because of the situation within both Western societies and the Western international community itself. Russia’s pivot to Asia will continue and the Greater Eurasia comprehensive partnership concept will gradually be substantiated and thus will become a zone of stability and a powerful unit within the global order. Russian achievements in defence, declared by President Putin in his 2018 address to the Federal Assembly (Putin 2018), strengthen deterrence, and show that achieving military ascendency and changing the overall military balance is impossible, thus deterring an arms race, and creating the preconditions for dialogue with Washington. In this regard, Russia, again, intends to act as a key security provider through its foreign and defence policies. In the medium term, the priority for major powers is to prevent a new large-scale war, which is becoming highly likely. The current state of US-Russia relations is just a beginning in this regard. However, the establishment of a new world order will take time, and in the meantime serious conflicts and crises could occur. Russia has a good chance of influencing the formation a new order. A period of collapse opens up possibilities for the creation of a new world order hopefully, a fairer, stable, and peaceful order than has been previously experienced. With the election of Donald Trump and the rapid increase of US containment of Russia and China-which is both a consequence of this gradual erosion and also represents deep internal and international contradictions-this process entered its apogee. Since around 2017–2018, the world has been living through a period of progressive erosion, or collapse, of international orders inherited from the past. ![]()
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