The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed recent changes to the US National Security Strategy document, saying that its new vision is “consistent” with its own geopolitical vision.
Washington’s new strategy white paper outlines a major shift from previous US transatlantic policy, proposing a halt to NATO enlargement and warning that Europe is at risk of what it describes as “civilizational erasure.”
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Unveiled Thursday night, the document says Washington’s Europe policy should prioritize “ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance.”
“The adjustments we’re seeing, I would say, are largely consistent with our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with state TV station Rossiya aired Sunday.
“President Trump is currently strong in terms of domestic political positions. And this gives him the opportunity to adjust the concept to suit his vision,” Peskov added.
Critics in the US lamented that the new policy marks a continued shift away from solidarity with allies in Europe, expanding a rift in transatlantic relations that is becoming harder to gap by the day.
“We’re abandoning our allies and folding to our adversaries,” wrote Alexander Vindman in a Kyiv Post opinion piece. “The damage left by this strategy will take generations to mend.”
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Those who worry that the US is increasingly shedding its mantle of global leadership and may abandon Ukraine would take no solace in comments from the US President’s son over the weekend.
Speaking at a conference in Doha over the weekend, Donald Trump, Jr. believed that the US would no longer be the “idiot holding the checkbook” to fund Ukraine’s defense and that Europe needed to come up with a better plan.
The president’s eldest son, who holds no official role in he administration but it seen as one of the standard bearers of the right-wing isolationist MAGA movement, was particularly vocal about the EU’s foreign policy towards Russia.
He said European sanctions were not working since they had simply increased the price of oil, and therefore only added to Russia’s war chest. He described the European plan as “we are going to wait for Russia to go bankrupt – that is not a plan”.
The real-estate scion described Ukraine as “far more corrupt than Russia” and accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of prolonging the war because he knows he would never win an election if it ended.
Later, in an interview with SkyNews on Sunday, when asked whether his father might abandon his support for Ukraine altogether, the younger Trump responded, “I think he may.”
“What’s good about my father and what’s unique about my father is you don’t know what he’s going to do. He’s unpredictable.”
The elder Trump did little to assuage those fears on Sunday when he told reporters that Zelensky wasn’t serious about peace because, he claimed, he hadn’t yet read the latest version of the US peace proposal.
“I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago. His people love it, but he hasn’t,” Trump said.
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