A Kremlin spokesperson said the changes “are consistent with our vision in many respects.”
Published December 7, 2025
The Kremlin has praised the new national security strategy adopted by US President Donald Trump, saying it closely aligns with Russia’s own views on world affairs.
A US document released last week warns that Europe faces so-called “civilizational annihilation,” identifies ending the war in Ukraine as a “core” interest of the United States, and signals a shift toward restoring what Washington describes as strategic stability with Russia.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that the changes “in many ways correspond with our vision.”
He also welcomed language in the strategy to end “the perception that the NATO military alliance is a permanently expanding alliance.” The Russian government has long opposed NATO expansion, citing security concerns.
But Peskov warned that the position of what he called the U.S. “deep state,” a term used by the U.S. president to criticize officials he believes undermine his policies, may differ from Trump’s new security strategy.
Ukraine’s war diplomacy
Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, successive U.S. strategies have portrayed Russia as a destabilizing force that threatens the post-Cold War order.
Under the Trump administration, amid a public clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Washington’s approach to the conflict changed. President Trump previously described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “friend.”
President Trump’s new strategy comes as the White House-led effort to mediate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war reaches a critical moment. President Zelensky will travel to London on Monday for four-way talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
President Zelensky has repeatedly called for strong support from his European partners, particularly when U.S. officials supported the Kremlin’s position that Kiev should consider territorial concessions under any peace deal.
focus shifts to China
The new security strategy puts the Indo-Pacific at the center of US foreign policy, calling it a “major economic and geopolitical battleground.” He has pledged to expand U.S. military power to deter conflict between China and Taiwan.
Meanwhile, Russia, isolated by Western sanctions over the Ukraine war, is deepening its economic and political ties with China.
“As a student of history, I’ve watched all of history, and the first thing I learn is that Russia and China don’t want to come together,” Trump told Fox News in March.
Experts say the document signals Trump’s desire to overhaul the U.S.-led post-World War II order and rebuild global alliances through a so-called “America First” lens.
It also emphasizes defending what it calls Europe’s “Western identity” and preventing the “erasure of civilization,” which analysts say is consistent with far-right rhetoric in the European Union and the United States.
