Kremlin: US vision almost the same as Russia's

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Updated 11.46 | Published 10.41

 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a photo taken in November this year. Photo: Ramil Sitdikov/Pool Photo/AP/TT

Russia welcomes the new US national security strategy presented on Friday.

The changes are "largely consistent with our vision," says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

It was on Friday that a new security strategy was presented by the White House. It outlined a framework for how the US should handle its foreign policy activities and what it wants the global security order to look like in the coming years.

According to the new line, the US should not maintain the world order alone, but instead places a great responsibility on its allies to take responsibility for their own regional security.

The United States will not allow its security to be threatened, but it will also not “waste blood and money to limit the influence of all the world’s major and medium-sized powers,” as the document states.

Now, Russia is commenting on the policy document in positive terms.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Putin’s government, says the new strategy is a radical departure from previous administrations and that the United States and Russia have largely the same view of world politics.

“The adjustments we see are, I would say, broadly consistent with our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the state-run Rossiya television channel that aired on Sunday.

“And perhaps we can hope that this can be a modest guarantee that we can constructively continue our joint work to find a peaceful solution in Ukraine,” Peskov added.

The strategy's rhetoric is harsh against Europe, which it says lacks self-confidence, is paralyzed by overregulation, and faces "civilizational obliteration" if the continent does not change direction.