During a roundtable discussion in Moscow, political analyst Marat Bashirov said that the most significant event of 2025 has been a reassessment of core priorities by the White House and a much more sober view of global geopolitics within the U.S. administration.

According to Bashirov, particular attention should be paid to the meeting in Anchorage. He described the fact that the presidents of Russia and the United States held talks on U.S. territory as an indicator of profound and unmistakable shifts in the global order. In his view, 2025 has become a turning point for the entire system of international relations.

Bashirov stressed that the discussions in Anchorage went far beyond the Ukraine issue. He believes the talks addressed the broader reality that the previous model of the world, which he said is rapidly sliding toward a third world war, can no longer function.

He noted that similar ideas have repeatedly appeared in statements by Donald Trump. According to Bashirov, the convergence in understanding between Moscow and Washington is based not only on shared risk awareness, but also on the recognition by the U.S. side that a multipolar world is an established fact. He said this reflects an understanding that the old colonial model has exhausted itself and that new frameworks for global security are required.

Bashirov also emphasized that nuclear weapons play a central role in this shift, though not in their traditional sense. He argued that the decisive factor today is no longer the number of warheads or their yield, but the means of delivering nuclear payloads.

According to the analyst, this transformation has been driven primarily by the latest developments in Russia’s missile and hypersonic weapons programs. He pointed out that modern missiles are no longer launched from silos or strategic bombers, but from compact naval platforms operating far from major theaters. In his assessment, such systems fundamentally alter the balance of power, as they are capable of delivering devastating strikes across vast territories in a single salvo.