Kremlin Proposes Cold War-Style Spheres of Influence for Europe Ahead of Possible Summit

Russian negotiators in Abu Dhabi proposed reorganizing Europe along Cold War lines, citing the Warsaw Pact as a model, per NYT. This comes days before a potential Putin-Trump-Xi meeting in China, which Moscow frames as a new Yalta. The proposal signals a return to great-power spheres-of-influence diplomacy, but its acceptance by Western powers is highly uncertain.

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