The Kremlin welcomed the move by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to revise its national security strategy and stop labeling Russia as a “direct threat,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to TASS. “We consider this a positive step,” Peskov stated.
The messages for Russian-American relations sent by Trump’s administration differ from the approach of previous administrations, the Kremlin spokesperson added.
The Kremlin will review the updated U.S. national security strategy in more detail to analyze its provisions, Peskov said.
“It definitely needs to be reviewed and analyzed in more detail,” he noted.
This was his comment on the revised key U.S. national security document, which no longer refers to Russia as a “direct threat” and includes a call for cooperation with Moscow in the field of strategic stability, TASS reports.
Previous U.S. strategies, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, had labeled Moscow as the main threat. However, the updated document, released on Friday, takes a softer tone and encourages cooperation with Russia, albeit in a limited way.
The new 29-page strategy outlines Trump’s foreign policy vision as one of “flexible realism,” stating that U.S. policy will be guided primarily by “what works for America.”
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