03/02/2025

Washington Now ‘Largely Aligns’ with Moscow’s Vision, Kremlin Says

Tension with Ukraine, fueled by the United States, is seen in Moscow as a “gift"

The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is bringing Washington into alignment with Moscow, the Kremlin said Sunday — a shift that could upend the geopolitics that have governed international relations since War World II.

"The new [Trump] administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television on Sunday. "This largely aligns with our vision."

Moscow's vision, which has focused on a push to reclaim influence over much or all of the former Soviet Union and defeat liberal democracy, has made Russia a pariah to the West. The United States has given hundreds of billions of dollars in arms and aid to Ukraine since Russia’s unprovoked invasion in 2022. Washington led allies in imposing new sanctions on Moscow; the International Criminal Court issued a warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin on charges of war crimes.

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