Why Russia loves the US National Security Strategy
Europe’s liberal, pluralist leaderships pose a threat to the domestic political narratives that both Trump and Putin depend on to stay in power
NOTHING about the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy should shock European leaders, still less the enthusiastic welcome that this confirmation of a revolution in US foreign policy has received from Moscow.
It calls, after all, for a rupture in the transatlantic alliance that every Kremlin leader – with brief exceptions for Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin – has sought since 1945.
Why that is should be self-evident. Moscow has been fighting wars to expand or protect its westward borders and influence since at least the days of Peter the Great.
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