United States President Donald Trump has unveiled a new security strategy that aligns closely with Moscow’s stance on global politics. The Kremlin has praised the move, saying, “This would help the two sides establish better relations in times of global uncertainties.”
The US document released this week cautions that the West was facing “civilisational erasure”, adding that ending the war in Ukraine remains a “core” US interest. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that the 33-page document adopted by the United States also “aligns with our future vision of the world”.
The US has strongly warned of its major apprehensions about expanding the NATO bloc toward the East, which primarily faces Russia. The move that Moscow believes will cause territorial issues with the West.
The document calls for putting an immediate stop to such expansion and demands NATO allies spend 5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035. Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and its subsequent military operation in Ukraine in 2022, the US strategies have identified Moscow as a destabilising force threatening the post-Cold War order.
Trump has repeatedly asked Ukraine and its backers to find a mediating ground on ending the Ukraine war, or else the US will retract all of its security guarantees over Ukraine. So far, Ukraine’s major backers, known as E3, a group that includes France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, have outrightly rejected the US peace proposal on Ukraine, putting Zelenskyy into a difficult situation.
Apart from this, Ukraine is on the verge of losing its grip on Pokrovsk and Donbas altogether, as Russian forces mounted a series of drone and missile strikes on Kyiv since Friday night. Zelenskyy has repeatedly sought strong backing from European partners, especially when US officials have endorsed Moscow’s position that Kyiv should consider territorial concessions under any peace agreement.
The new security strategy places the Indo-Pacific at the centre of US foreign policy, describing it as a “key economic and geopolitical battleground”. The shift, according to the latest policy, is aimed at containing China’s rise and its territorial issues in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly with Taiwan.
