A new security strategy was presented by the White House on Friday. It outlined a framework for how the United States 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 United States should not alone maintain world order, 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 neither will it “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 that the new strategy deviates radically 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 state television channel Rossiya that aired on Sunday.
And perhaps we can hope that this can be a modest guarantee that we can constructively continue our joint work on finding 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.
