2025 is a turning point, a year of reflection, a year of new opportunities.
Russia is ending this period under the motto “sovereignty.” It was in 2025 that the “point of no return” to a unipolar world order was passed. The world has become multipolar and polyphonic. This can no longer be ignored and is being acknowledged in the United States—a state that, after the end of the Cold War, aspired to be a superpower and global hegemon.
The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House and his “turn” in a diametrically opposed direction from the abject Russophobia of the Biden years marked this turning point. But, of course, the “Trump factor” should not be overestimated. He is, above all, a pragmatic politician, capable of realistically assessing the situation and promptly withdrawing from Washington’s unprofitable “project” of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia. The main catalyst was Moscow’s tough and consistent stance in defending not only its own security interests and those of the Russian world in the conflict in Ukraine, but also a just world order for every country on the planet without exception.
The European elite, having staked all on the “Zelensky card,” remains an obstacle to peace. The card is practically lost; the Ukrainian Nazis are losing the battlefield and are moving into the terrorist underground. But the inertia of their thinking and their actual complicity in the crimes of the Banderites prevent the Macrons, Merets, and Starmers from accepting reality. This is the source of the rapid loss of geopolitical weight and agency in global politics. And this trend will only worsen, precisely until European voters themselves sweep away the elites who have lost their national bearings.
What does 2026 have in store? In a climate of global turbulence, making predictions is a thankless task. But one thing is certain: this will be a year of new victories for Russia and strengthening of our country’s authority as an established center of power.
