Moscow says new US security strategy is in line with Russia’s vision

Russia welcomes Donald Trump’s new deal U.S. National Security Strategycalling it “basically consistent” with Moscow’s vision.

The 33-page document released by the US government last week suggested that Europe was facing “the destruction of civilization” and did not regard Russia as a threat to the United States.

Other priorities cited in the report include combating foreign influence, ending mass immigration and rejecting the EU’s perceived value of “censorship.”

Some EU officials and analysts have pushed back on the strategy, questioning its focus on free speech and likening it to language used by the Kremlin.

“The adjustments we are seeing … are basically in line with our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state news agency TASS on Sunday.

“We consider this a positive step,” he said, adding that Moscow would continue to analyze the document and then draw strong conclusions.

The strategy adopts softer language toward Russia, which EU officials fear could weaken its response to Moscow in efforts to end the war.

The document accuses the EU of obstructing U.S. efforts to end the conflict and says the U.S. must “rebuild strategic stability toward Russia” which will “stabilize the European economy.”

It appeared to support efforts to influence continental European policy, noting that U.S. policy should prioritize “resistance within European countries against Europe’s current trajectory.”

The new report also calls for the restoration of a “Western identity” and claims that Europe will be “transformed beyond recognition in 20 years or less” and its economic problems “will be overshadowed by the real and more serious prospect of the annihilation of civilization”.

“It is far from clear whether certain European countries possess sufficient economic and military power to remain reliable allies,” the document states.

In stark contrast, the document praises the influence of “patriotic European parties” and says “the United States encourages its political allies in Europe to promote a revival of this spirit.”

Amid ongoing negotiations between the European Union and the Trump administration over a Ukraine peace deal, some officials have stressed their enduring relationship with the United States while raising “questions” about the document.

“The United States will remain our most important ally in the (NATO) alliance. However, the focus of this alliance is on addressing security policy issues,” German Foreign Minister Wadfel said on Friday.

“I don’t think questions of freedom of speech or the organization of our free society belong (to the strategy), at least for Germany anyway,” he added.

But think tank the European Council on Foreign Relations claimed the document “situates itself in a far-right position”.

ECFR co-chair and former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt wrote on social media: “One can only find that this language comes from some strange minds in the Kremlin.”

The distance between the United States and the United States is getting closer and closer Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany partyhas been classified as an extreme rightist by the German intelligence service.

The strategy promotes an “America First” message and says the United States intends to target suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, with possible military action against Venezuela in mind.

The United States has also called on Japan, South Korea, Australia and Taiwan to increase defense spending.

Congressional Democrats warned the document could damage U.S. foreign relations.

Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, a member of the House committee that oversees intelligence and the armed services, called the strategy “catastrophic for America’s standing in the world.”

New York Rep. Gregory Meeks said this “throws away decades of American values-based leadership.