Kremlin welcomes Trump’s decision to prioritize resuming US-Russia relations

MADRID, December 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Russian government considers it a positive development that the latest US national security strategy presented by Donald Trump stops presenting Russia as a “direct threat” and opens the door to possible cooperation in strategic stability, according to statements by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov to the Russian news agency TASS.

Peskov pointed out that comments made by the White House during Trump’s second term regarding bilateral relations between Washington and Moscow clearly contrasted with the stance of previous administrations, which undermined their more “traditional” positions.

However, the Kremlin representative indicated that Moscow plans to take a closer look at the full, updated text of the US strategy, saying its provisions “without doubt” require detailed analysis before Russia can draw definitive conclusions about its scope.

The document in question, considered essential to American national security policy, removes any reference to Russia as a “direct threat”. He instead proposed exploring new avenues of cooperation with Moscow on issues related to strategic stability, a move the Kremlin interpreted as a possible diplomatic opening.

The new national security strategy presented Friday by the White House – a document that defines the guidelines for the Trump administration’s foreign policy – makes the “restoration of predominance” of the United States in the West its priority objective. The United States speaks, generally speaking, of a restitution of all its “hard power” tools, economic and military, to achieve this objective.

The document makes clear that the United States must “reconsider” its military presence in the hemisphere while “prioritizing its commercial diplomacy” through “the powerful tools of tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements.” Thus, Washington summarizes its strategy in two words: “Expand and enlist.”

“We will call on our allies in the hemisphere to control migration, end drug trafficking, and strengthen land and maritime stability and security. We will grow by cultivating and strengthening new partners, while strengthening our nation’s attractiveness as the hemisphere’s preferred economic and security partner,” the document states.

Although the document gives primary importance to the Western Hemisphere, it also addresses the new American strategy in the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, through an initiative aimed at “rebalancing the economic relationship with China”, the stabilization of the security situation in the case of the second scenario and the transition, in the African case, from a relationship focused on the delivery of aid “and the diffusion of liberal ideas” on the continent, towards a relationship focused on trade and the economy.