March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—In a March 25 interview to Channel One, Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was asked: “Why has the President of the United States chosen this precise moment in time to change the whole paradigm of Russia-U.S. ties?”
Lavrov replied: “I think that the experience he acquired during his first term was invaluable for him, primarily in terms of realizing that he needed to have a team of his own. The deterioration in our relations was largely attributable to the fact that there were all these random people forming Donald Trump’s entourage during his first term.… This is how people who would later betray him became part of the administration.
“Donald Trump is a man of action, so he decided to seek revenge for the 2020 election when Joe Biden was voted into office by millions of dead people or those who cast mail-in ballots. Donald Trump decided to settle his scores and claim what history owed him and to fulfil the will of the American people. And he succeeded by completely changing the way he ran his campaign. The fact that Donald Trump has been able to get the Senate to approve his main picks so quickly demonstrates that he has been working on it for a long time.
“This is a team of like-minded people, and these people do not shy away from saying things they agree upon and which they believe to reflect the national
We were all in on this approach.”
Lavrov continued: “I believe that what we have experienced under Joe Biden was an anomaly…. We had this little-boy-in-a-kindergarten kind of attitude when a boy turns away from a girl or vice versa saying ‘I will not be friends with you, and will not hang out with you.’ What a silly attitude. The fact that we have resumed dialogue despite all our differences signals a return to normalcy. We need this kind of dialogue, especially since it is not limited to Ukraine.”
As an example, Lavrov spoke of sports: “They also share the view that it is not okay when a man calls himself a woman and goes on to fight a boxing match against an actual woman. There is a sense within U.S. President Donald Trump administration that you cannot mess with human nature or distort it, and that traditional religious, cultural and moral values must be preserved. This must have a salutary effect on the Western society in general. I hope that this materializes.”
Lavrov discussed the fact that the dollar suffered because of the Biden and other policies. “They started using the dollar as a weapon.… All countries think more or less alike—anyone who is not on the black list now might fall out of favor with the U.S. administration any day, considering that each new administration can cancel the agreements made by the previous administration. To be on the safe side, they are thinking about replacing the dollar and the euro with national currencies in mutual settlements, even if not creating a new currency. Europeans are even less predictable. Discussions of payments mechanisms such as BRICS Pay are underway, and this process can’t be reversed.”
