US Proposes New Russia-Europe Security Pact in Trilateral Talks

The shift here is structural rather than tactical: Washington is floating a standing Russia-Europe security framework, not just a ceasefire mechanism, which puts the postwar order itself on the table. That raises the stakes for European capitals, who would be asked to live inside an architecture they did not draft, and for Moscow, now invited to counter-propose rather than merely respond. The open question is whether this is a genuine negotiating track or a trial balloon, and how Europe's own institutions react to being discussed as a region rather than as parties.