Nina Khrushcheva: ‘It’s Putin and Trump against the world’

Nina Khrushcheva: ‘It’s Putin and Trump against the world’

How is a Trump-Putin alliance affecting Europe and Ukraine? Marc Lamont Hill talks to historian Nina Khrushcheva.

International Relations professor Nina Khrushcheva, granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, said in an interview with EFE that the U.S. will end up leaving Ukraine in the lurch, as it did in Afghanistan. "After all, the U.S., when it suits you and for different reasons, always leaves you thrown away," she said in a telephone conversation from New York. Khrushcheva believes that an agreement on Ukraine between Trump and Putin is …

Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international relations and granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, says the United States could leave Ukraine, as it did in Afghanistan. She sees a deal between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as possible, given the current US president's admiration for authoritarian leaders. Khrushcheva warns that Europe cannot count on US support and that Russia has never been so close to imposing its influenc…