It is an illusion to hope for a recovery of ties with Russia – as Trump clearly does. He wants peace in Ukraine to do business with Moscow again. But Putin can only save himself by sliding to a real dictatorship according to the North Korean model. Three connoisseurs write in the magazine ‘Foreign Affairs’ from the region. If that happens, they say, the war never stops and the nuclear threat becomes very real. But according to them, the West can do something about it.

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