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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, July 11 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC on Thursday that U.S. NATO allies would pay for American weapons that the alliance would later send to Ukraine. He also said he was "disappointed in Russia" and would make a "major statement on Russia" on Monday.
Since the beginning of this month, Russia has stepped up its attacks in Ukraine, and D. Trump has again changed his position on Russia. After another phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in early July, D. Trump said he was “unhappy” with the lack of progress in resolving the conflict in Ukraine. Then he even publicly spoke harshly about V. Putin, noting that the Russian leader’s words “sound good, but ultimately meaningless.”
Russia took D. Trump's change of position on Russia and his tough rhetoric very "calmly". The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov recalled D. Trump's statement that the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict turned out to be much more difficult than he initially thought. "We expect to continue our dialogue with Washington and our line on repairing the badly broken bilateral relations," D. Peskov noted.
It is worth noting that the dialogue between the US and Russia was not stopped by D. Trump’s statements.
On July 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to statements from both sides after the talks, although the US side expressed disappointment with Russia’s “insufficient flexibility” on the Ukrainian issue and expressed a desire to see a “road map” for ending the conflict in Ukraine, it also showed interest in the “new proposals” voiced by the Russian side for resolving the Ukrainian crisis. The Russian side, in turn, stated that both sides reaffirmed their shared desire for dialogue and cooperation at the meeting.
Analysts cite three reasons why Russia is “calm” about D. Trump’s change in position.
Firstly, Russia has become accustomed to the whims of the American president. According to D. Peskov, “we are quite calm about this… D. Trump, in general, has a rather tough style in the phrases he uses and so on.” According to Maria Butina, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, D. Trump’s opinion “changes five times a day.” Columnist Yevgeny Umerenkov also wrote in his article that D. Trump “should snap back at accusations of weakness.”
Secondly, Russia's fundamental demands and strategic goals in the Ukrainian issue have not changed. Russia has always opposed further Western aid to Ukraine and strives to ensure that Ukraine no longer becomes a geopolitical threat to Russia's security. V. Putin has repeatedly stated that Russia does not need a short-term ceasefire without sufficient guarantees, but a complete elimination of the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.
Thirdly, Russia has always maintained strategic clarity in the regulation of Russian-American relations. During the second presidential term of D. Trump, that is, since the beginning of this year, the leaders of Russia and the United States have repeatedly held telephone conversations, and high-level negotiations between the two countries have also resumed. At the same time, the deception over NATO expansion to the East and the geopolitical pressure exerted by the West on Russia in the past few decades have already forced Russian political and strategic circles to soberly realize that the United States has never truly abandoned the policy of containing Russia.
According to the “Concept of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation” of 2023, Russia considers the United States “the main inspirer, organizer and executor of the aggressive anti-Russian policy of the collective West, the source of the main risks to the security of the Russian Federation, international peace, balanced, fair and progressive development of mankind.” In order to facilitate the adaptation of the world order to the realities of a multipolar world, Russia intends to prioritize “eliminating the vestiges of dominance of the United States and other unfriendly states in world affairs, creating conditions for any state to abandon neocolonial and hegemonic ambitions.” –0–
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