After US President Donald Trump had kept his marathon speech as a congress on Tuesday evening, media all over the world set up messages, facts and falsehoods.
In Russia, the state media outlet Ria Novosti pursued how often Trump referred to Vladimir Putin, and compared to that when US President Joe Biden gave his last state of the Union in March 2024.
The outlet pointed out that bidges mentioned the Russian president seven times and spoke about the need to stop Putin and “stand by Putin”.
Trump, on the other hand, only mentioned Putin once and said that he probably realized that he had a “chance” to penetrate Ukraine after seeing what he described as the “incompetence” of the bid administration during the chaotic withdrawal of Afghanistan in 2021.
It was a simple comparison that was supposed to go home: the Trump administration seems to be much cheaper for Moscow -even if the Kremlin accepts the US government openly and publicly.
“I am carefully optimistic,” said Malek Dudakov, a political scientist and regular commentator for Russian state media programs based in Moscow. “But nobody here has illusions that we will bury the hatchet tomorrow and will become the closest friends of the United States.”
Blunt change of the sound
Even cautious optimism is a dramatic change in sound in Washington, since Russian political officials and television commentators have passed the US government for years and have described the country as Enemy And even threatens to attack nuclear attacks America and his fortune.
Trump’s efforts to disturb the US foreign policy and to reduce the conviction of the Biden government and to support Ukraine unshakeable by trying to put the country under pressure to negotiate a peace agreement to terminate the Russia invasion, praised the Kremlin and the members of the country’s political class.
On Thursday, the spokesman for Kreml, Dmitry Peskov, said he agreed to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio when Rubio described the Ukraine war as a proxy fight between nuclear powers during an interview with Fox News, with the United States Kyiv helped.
The heating relationships extend beyond attitude in Ukraine. Trump repeatedly said he had one Good relationship with Putinand his government’s attacks against so -called “Wokeess“Have received support in Russia that claims to examine traditional values and whose courts have distributed convictions for LGBT “extremism”.
Despite the areas of focus, in Russia, due to the unpredictability of Trump and his actions during his first term as president, caution remains. Russian commentators often refer to 2019 when the United States approved the sale From Javelin tank defense rockets to Ukraine and as Trump registered Additional sanctions Against Russia if it is put under pressure by the US Congress.
“I don’t think Trump is trying to become a pro-Russian president or build an alliance,” said Dudakov with CBC News by phone from Moscow. “I think Trump would just not conflict with Russia because … the problem of Ukraine has no priority for him.”
Dudakov is a common guest in Russian political shows that cordially approved the recent brittle developments between Washington and Kyiv, as well as other US efforts, alliances and global order.
Shifting of US politics to Ukraine
On the third anniversary of the full invasion of Russia, the United States separated in the United Nations with its European allies and refused to accuse Russia for his invasion of Ukraine in three separate voices, including one in which the 15-person council of uncertainty is passed by an entrepreneurship. US drafted resolution This took a neutral position on the conflict.
The Kremlin welcomed the US farming and said that it was “impossible to imagine” that Washington’s foreign policy would “largely match the vision of Russia”.
In the following days there were more approval from Russian officials Explosive Oval Office Meeting Between Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the subsequent decision of the United States, the military help and the exchange of secret services with Ukraine.
“They praised Trump and Vance for the challenge of Europe … and the humiliating Zelenskyy, “said Maxim Alyukov, political sociologist and associated researcher at King’s College London and as a fellow at the University of Manchester.” There is also a lot of ambiguity. “
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Alyukov pointed out an independent Russian news agency ViolationThe last week published a report in which unnamed sources were cited in state media, which said that they have not yet received any strict instructions on how to deal with the sharp warming of relationships; The editors were instructed not to praise Trump personally if the negotiations failed.
This report seems to match the statements made by official sources and commentators who openly question and discuss Trump’s motivation in these programs, said Alyukov.
Anger aimed at Europe
The warnings, threats and obscenities that were previously directed towards Russian state media and social platforms to the United States are now geared to the selection words, especially for Europe.
The European Union leader have sworn to increase his defense spending – to be as much as 800 billion euros – to better protect the region and support Ukraine. The French President Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer were some of the volume supporters and publicly supported the idea of using European peace forces to the country if there is an outsourced armistice.
“You hear all types of curses that are directed against Macron and Strander,” said Alyukov, referring to the commentary on the political programs of the Russian state.
After Macron had taken on a speech broadcast on TV on Wednesday, Europe said that the threat of Russia was recognized and the expansion of French nuclear protection for the rest of Europe, the reaction from Moscow was quick and uniform.
The spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, called Macron “distant from reality”, while Putin noticed on Thursday that there were some who “wanted to return to the times of Napoleon and forgot how it ended”. (In 1812 Napoleon marched the French army to Moscow before moving back a month later.)
However, Putin said very little about Trump.
In a speech to the Russian Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday, Putin did not even mention the US President. Instead, he praised the department for his work to distribute Russian passes to residents of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia – the Ukrainian areas that Russia wants to permanently control.
Aligned values, but unclear peace plans
Yevgeny Popov, host of the popular daily Russian political program 60 minutes And a member of the state Duma told CBC News that he denies the idea that Russia will benefit from the growing separation between Europe and the USA – but he believes that Trump will be a better president than bidges.
“We have some similar positions between (the) Russian people and the US people, “he said.” We are conservative nations. “
When asked whether he regarded Trump as a pro-Russian president, Popov mocked. “The US military equipment is still on the battlefield, and US tanks and rockets are still fighting against my people.”
He said, while he welcomes Trump’s statements about the rapid negotiation of a peace agreement, he was also skeptical because no specific plan has yet been unveiled.
On social media platforms, some of the pro-war military bloggers of Russia criticize the prospects for negotiations and instead want the country’s military to win the war directly.
Trump repeatedly said that Russia was Send strong signals that it is ready for peace. The Kremlin also said Putin was serious about it negotiate a deal in Ukraine.
However, there is no suggestion that Russia is ready foregoing the most important requirements: Keep the Ukrainian area that it is now checking and lets Ukraine give up its NATO ambitions-which Zelenskyy has not repeatedly negotiated.
“We are ready to negotiate about certain topics, for example … (the) lifting of sanctions,” said Dudakov and noticed that Russia is not willing to compromise. “
