Sergey Stankevich
Moscow attaches great importance to the upcoming celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany in 2025.
Active state preparations are underway. A list of international guests is being compiled. This is where the key intrigue lies: will a guest from the USA arrive in Moscow in May? And who exactly?
The Kremlin, apparently, would like to get the highest possible guest from Washington in order to find mutual understanding with the United States during the anniversary events — the former main ally in the anti-Hitler coalition.
And now — the main partner in the reorganization of the world order. In this regard, a visit to the capital of Russia by US President Donald Trump would be a thunderous event and a world sensation.
It would seem that in the current situation, something completely impossible. Under no circumstances, under no circumstances, even to think about! But if you think about it, why not?
Trump is no stranger to doing what everyone considers impossible. Wasn’t his election as president in 2016? And an absolutely fantastic come true impossibility was Trump’s return to the White House after his defeat in 2020: after a four-year pause, after three assassination attempts and four criminal cases, he won again in 2024, gaining control over all levels of the state.
For Trump, the more impossible the task, the more interesting. That’s how it is with a visit to the capital of Russia. What a universal howl will rise at the mere news that Trump is going to Moscow.
How the world’s media will go crazy! How thirty-five thousand diplomats, experts and spies will run, fuss, and start shouting! How the whole world will then track His every step, catch His every phrase, multiply every piece of gossip. A favorite, favorite atmosphere for Donald Trump.
History has already seen a sensational and pivotal visit to Moscow in May 1988 by US President Ronald Reagan. The same one when Reagan, standing in the Kremlin near the Tsar Cannon, declared that he “no longer considers Russia an evil empire.”
Trump, who highly values Reagan, has a good supporting precedent. Incidentally, in 2020, Trump almost followed in Reagan’s footsteps: the possibility of his visit to Moscow, timed to coincide with the May Victory Parade, was considered.
At that time, however, Trump was under a barrage of criticism, the election campaign was underway, and he did not dare. His national security adviser Robert O’Brien attended the Victory Parade in Moscow.
The situation is completely different now. Why shouldn’t the current triumphant Trump visit Moscow on a mission of a global peacemaker? And in the role of the One who will change the course of history?
Apparently, the Kremlin has already sent a sounding signal to Trump’s entourage about the desirability of a high-level visit to Moscow in May 2025. Judging by the echo in the media, the signal has been heard and received positively. Important details are being discussed.
If Trump does not dare to perform a Herculean feat again, a logical step would be for the new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to come to Moscow. This would be the first head of the State Department in Russia since Mike Pompeo’s visit in 2019.
A young and ambitious “politician on the rise” could effectively start with the most difficult and significant task. To fly across the ocean and, if possible, disperse the ominous fog of war that has accumulated over Europe.
Yuri Chekalin
