US–Russia rapprochement: What is the end game?
10
April 2025 — 6:00PM TO 7:00PM
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27 March 2025

Chatham House and Online

Experts examine the American strategy towards Russia, implications for the war on Ukraine and China’s perspective on warming relations between the two countries.

Experts examine the implications of US-Russia relations for European Security and the war on Ukraine.

The second Trump administration has made ending the war in Ukraine and normalization of relations with Russia a top priority. US dialogue with Russian officials has, at a minimum, opened a path to a potential ceasefire and peace deal.

However, Ukrainian and its supporters have expressed concerns over the terms for peace imposed on Kyiv. A deal has so far proved hard find. Has the idea of a ‘just peace’ been abandoned?

Warming relations also challenges the dynamic of superpower relations between the US and China, particularly strategic competition between Washington and Beijing and the Russia-China alliance.

This discussion will cover:

• What safeguards are needed to ensure that war does not return? Can a ‘Trump and Putin’ peace have durability…and even validity?
• How much, if anything at all, can Russia concede? And Ukraine?
• To what extent is Europe likely to re-engage economically and diplomatically with Russia after any conclusion to the war?
• How has the Trump administrations approach to Russia challenged its long-term relationships with Moscow?
• What does China stand to lose or gain with greater relations between the Russia and the US?

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