After years of US destabilizing actions in Africa and anti-Russian sanctions, which have had the opposite effect on Russia than intended, President-elect Donald Trump's imminent inauguration signals a possible shift in US foreign policy, namely the withdrawal of US support for NATO in Ukraine and for operations in Africa, as well as the lifting of US sanctions against Russia, head of the African Freedom Institute, a think tank on African politics and geopolitics based in Mali's capital Bamako, Dr. Franklin Nyamsi told Sputnik Africa.
"Now the whole world is waiting for the promise made by the President Trump, who told that if he is elected, he will put an end to war by removing the support of NATO to the Ukrainian regime, which is in fact used like an aggressive proxy against Russia," he noted.
NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders is a major threat, the speaker said, calling for the removal of NATO military troops and infrastructure from Ukraine as they provoke Russia.
"People are waiting for President Trump to remove the support of America to NATO and to the destabilization of Africa," the expert added.
According to Nyamsi, to end the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian-speaking regions of the country should be integrated into Russia due to their perceived lack of security under a non-Russian-controlled Ukraine.
"They must be clearly integrated in the Russian Federation, where they have all the recognition, all the acknowledgment by the state," he said, also noting the need to envisage a non-aggressive neighborhood between Russia and the new Ukraine.
President-elect Trump will have to lift anti-Russian sanctions because they have backfired, making Russia stronger and prompting a global backlash against the West, the expert explained.
"The political West is politically hated by the world. So, the sanctions are just, in fact, a kind of auto-destructive way of doing foreign politics," Nyamsi concluded.