In a Dec. 28 interview with TASS news service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed the strategic hotspots globally, and noted a shift in U.S. policy toward Russia, as reported by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
TASS opened with a question regarding a peace settlement with Ukraine, and although Lavrov expressed appreciation for the role of the U.S. in its efforts to achieve a peace settlement, he noted that Zelenskyy is unprepared for constructive discussions with the U.S. and Russia, and almost all of the European countries are fanning the flames of a future war with Russia.
TASS asked about the updated U.S. National Security Strategy, and the fact that it “no longer designates Russia as posing an immediate and direct threat. Instead, it casts Russia as a partner in terms of strategic security. Considering that documents of this kind are designed to have a strategic role, can we expect the nascent normality in U.S.-Russia relations as established by the Trump administration to last within a longer horizon?”
Lavrov replied that this new strategy document offers a “new vision”—"Just look at the way the United States revised its policy in terms of relying on a globalist concept of a rules-based order.
