Opinion: “Putin Is Ready to Carve Up the World” Writes M. Gessen for the New York Times

In an opinion piece for the New York Times published on the same day Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting with Trump and Vance collapsed, Distinguished Visiting Writer M. Gessen wrote, “Putin has wanted to carve the globe up for a long time. Now, at last, Trump is handing him the knife.” As a Russian exile, Gessen asserts that Putin’s “negotiations with President Trump about Ukraine are not just about Ukraine. Putin wants nothing less than to reorganize the world, the way Joseph Stalin did with the accords he reached with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1945.” Although what will happen now in Ukraine is uncertain, Gessen predicts if Russia moves to unleash its aggression against Europe, it will not look like “the bipolar world of the second half of the 20th century” or like “the world in which we have been living and in which the populations of most of the world’s wealthy countries have felt safe.”

Post Date: 03-04-2025