{"id":764,"date":"2026-05-02T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/?p=764"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:37:29","slug":"trumps-neo-reagan-doctrine-is-rolling-back-russian-influence-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/trumps-neo-reagan-doctrine-is-rolling-back-russian-influence-across-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Neo-Reagan Doctrine Is Rolling Back Russian Influence Across The World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It was assessed shortly after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro\u2019s capture<\/a> that \u201cThe \u2018Trump Doctrine\u2019 Is Shaped By Elbridge Colby\u2019s \u2018Strategy Of Denial\u2019<\/a>\u201d, which argues that the US now prioritizes denying China the resources required for maintaining its economic growth. The aim is to derail China\u2019s superpower trajectory and thus make Xi more likely to accept a lopsided trade deal with the US for institutionalizing China\u2019s junior status. The Third Gulf War advances this goal as explained here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As applied towards Russia, however, the Trump Doctrine more closely resembles the Reagan Doctrine. The Strategy of Denial is much less relevant towards Russia than towards China due to Russia\u2019s natural resource wealth enabling it to develop autarkically (but at the cost of falling behind in the tech race). That said, Maduro\u2019s capture and the Third Gulf War affected both China and Russia, albeit differently; China was denied resources, while a Russian partner was removed from power and another weakened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This observation of those two outcomes segues into the essence of the Trump Doctrine\u2019s Reagan-esque application towards Russia. It\u2019s all about \u201crolling back<\/a>\u201d Russian influence across the world for the purpose of pressuring Putin into accepting a lopsided<\/a> deal<\/a> in Ukraine that would institutionalize Russia\u2019s junior status. Trump called for freezing the conflict last spring, which Putin rejected since that scenario doesn\u2019t address the root security issues, ergo why it continues to this day with no deal in sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia and the US each still dangle the promise of a mutually beneficial resource-centric strategic partnership, which was touched upon here<\/a> and here<\/a>, as a reward for compromising on their position that the other considers to be unacceptable. These concern Russia\u2019s refusal to freeze the conflict without addressing the root security issues and the US\u2019 refusal to address them as well as its refusal to coerce Ukraine and NATO into doing the same. Neither has agreed to compromise in spite of this reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resultant dilemma led to the Trump Doctrine\u2019s transformation. Putin placed Trump in a zugzwang whereby he could either retain the conflict\u2019s tempo at the risk of another \u201cforever war\u201d or \u201cescalate to de-escalate\u201d at the risk of World War III. Trump creatively extricated himself from this trap by replicating Reagan\u2019s \u201crollback\u201d policy in modern conditions. By the time he \u201crolled back\u201d Russia\u2019s influence in Venezuela and Iran, he already made major moves in Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and even Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first made peace in DC and agreed to a US-controlled trade corridor<\/a> that\u2019ll function as a dual military logistics route for injecting Western, including NATO, influence along Russia\u2019s entire southern periphery<\/a>. This emboldened the second to agree to a critical minerals deal<\/a> and announce its planned production of NATO-standard shells<\/a>. As for the third, its talks with the US are aimed at encouraging its defection from Russia<\/a>, which would greatly complicate the special operation<\/a>\u2019s hypothetically indefinite continuance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These six countries \u2013 Venezuela, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Belarus \u2013 aren\u2019t the only ones where the US is \u201crolling back\u201d Russian influence since Serbia<\/a>, Cuba<\/a>, Syria<\/a>, Libya<\/a>, and the Sahelian Alliance<\/a> (Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger) are being targeted too. Myanmar<\/a> and Nicaragua<\/a> might be next. Absent a deal with Trump, which Putin could be further induced to agree to if Trump promises to reduce US pressure on some \u2013 but not all \u2013 of these countries, Russia might lose all these partners with time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was originally published on\u00a0Andre Korybko<\/a>\u2018s Substack account and is republished with the author\u2019s permission.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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