He did not reiterate his earlier promise to “look into” lifting the sanctions that the U.S. has imposed against Russia for its military incursions in Ukraine. At no point in the speech did he even mention Ukraine. The NATO alliance did come up, but this time Trump didn’t question whetherthe U.S. would defend its NATO allies in the event of a Russian attack. Instead, he pledged to “work closely” with NATO against international terrorism, and he explicitly backed away from his earlier claim that the alliance is “obsolete.”
His admirers in Moscow have been counting on more than that. Back in February, when Trump’s chances of appearing on the Republican ticket still looked pretty shaky, one of the Kremlin’s favored ideologues was already prepared to saddle him with Russia’s hopes for the end of U.S. dominance in world affairs. “Maybe, that redhead rude Yankee from the saloon will get back to the problems inside the country and will leave humanity alone,”wrote Alexander Dugin, an influential author and theorist of Russian imperialism.
How Russia Saw Donald Trump’s Big Speech On Foreign Policy
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