According to Politico, the Trump administration's tolerance towards Russia and its attempts to be friendly with Russia in the Ukraine-Russia negotiations were aimed at pushing the "Nixonian reversal" in the China-US-Russia triangle. The US government believed that by encouraging Russia to end the war in Ukraine, and economically re-approaching and injecting a large amount of American investment into it, it would eventually shift the center of global order away from China. However, the US has realized that this goal is difficult to achieve in reality.
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