Russia’s Push To Rewrite European Security Norms Puts Decades Of Treaties At Risk

A question hanging over peace negotiations in Ukraine has widened into something far more consequential: who gets to define the rules governing an entire continent’s security. Russia signaled during talks in Abu Dhabi this week that it wanted to settle the broader question of European security architecture before addressing the specifics of the war in Ukraine. Cold War historian Michael Kimmage was unambiguous about what that framing represents, describing it as “certainly Russian talking points and not only talking points but, to a degree, part of a media propaganda effort that Russia makes to frame the war as it wishes to frame the war.” Moscow has long argued that Washington and NATO broke commitments made in the early 1990s not to expand the alliance into former Soviet bloc states, leaving Russia feeling strategically cornered and humiliated.

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