The U.S. will not sign a new “Yalta” agreement with Russia and China, stated Victoria Nuland

The U.S. will not, under any circumstances, sign a new “Yalta” agreement—a treaty on a new world order—with Russia and China.

This was the view expressed by former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar.

“By all accounts, Yalta (the agreements between the USSR, the U.S., and Britain in 1945 on the post-war order in Europe) was not a very good deal for us, and we should not have made it. It led to 70 years of the Cold War. Why would that be considered a good deal? It created a bad, unstable world. Any similar attempt by the great powers to divide the world and dictate to smaller countries what they can or cannot do will lead to the same kind of instability, including for Russia. So it won’t work,” she said.

Nuland also believes that such an agreement with Russia will not happen, even if Trump wins the U.S. elections. She cited the example of Republican congressmen who, despite Trump’s wishes, approved military aid to Ukraine this spring.

“Whatever Trump wants to do, I don’t think the American people will let him turn away from Ukraine. I think you see that in the vote to allocate $60 billion, which finally took place in April. You know, Trump was against that decision and tried to intimidate Republicans in Congress. But they listened to the American heart, which said we don’t want to live in a world where the big guy can eat a small country just because he wants to,” said Nuland, who, during her time at the State Department, also oversaw Ukraine.

It is worth noting that in March, Nuland stepped down from her position as Deputy Secretary of State.