{"id":10541,"date":"2025-03-05T07:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T07:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/america-the-evil-mastermind-not-so-fast-russians-are-told\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T07:20:57","slug":"america-the-evil-mastermind-not-so-fast-russians-are-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/america-the-evil-mastermind-not-so-fast-russians-are-told\/","title":{"rendered":"America the Evil Mastermind? Not So Fast, Russians Are Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Five weeks ago, Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, delivered a routine <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/mid.ru\/ru\/foreign_policy\/news\/1993817\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> blasting the \u201chegemonic, egoistic\u201d United States at the helm of the \u201ccollective West.\u201d The worldview of the 74-year-old veteran diplomat has since undergone some head-spinning changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview on Russian state television on Sunday, Mr. Lavrov listed the ills that Europe \u2014 not America \u2014 had brought upon the world. The United States, in his telling, had gone from evil mastermind to innocent bystander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cColonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler,\u201d Mr. Lavrov said. \u201cIf we look at history in retrospect, the Americans did not play any instigating, let alone incendiary, role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As President Trump turns decades of U.S. foreign policy upside down, another dizzying swing is taking place in Russia, both in the Kremlin and on state-controlled television: The United States, the new message goes, is not that bad after all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Almost overnight, it\u2019s Europe \u2014 not the United States \u2014 that has become the source of instability in the Russian narrative. On his marquee weekly show on the Rossiya-1 channel Sunday night, the anchor Dmitri Kiselyov described the \u201cparty of war\u201d in Europe as outmatched by the \u201cgreat troika\u201d of the United States, Russia and China that will form \u201cthe new structure of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For more than a decade, the United States was the Kremlin propaganda machine\u2019s main boogeyman \u2014 the \u201chegemon,\u201d the \u201cpuppeteer\u201d and the \u201cmaster across the ocean.\u201d It was seeking Russia\u2019s destruction by pushing Europeans, Ukrainians and terrorists into conflict with Moscow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Trump\u2019s return to the White House, Russian officials first said not much would change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe difference, other than terminology, is small,\u201d Mr. Lavrov said in that Jan. 30 speech, comparing the Trump and Biden administrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But then came the phone call on Feb. 12 between Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the talks between the White House and the Kremlin in Saudi Arabia, the vote at the United Nations in which America sided with Russia, and the berating of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the Oval Office last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a matter of weeks, it became clear that the second Trump presidency had the potential to deliver far more of a pro-Russian foreign policy than the first one did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin has led the shift in tone. The leader who used to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/transcripts\/comminity_meetings\/72863\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">castigate<\/a> the American-led West for seeking to \u201cdismember and plunder Russia\u201d last week <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/24\/world\/europe\/putin-interview-business-deals-in-russia.html\" title=\"\">proposed that the United States mine Russian rare earth metals<\/a> and help develop aluminum production in Siberia. It was part of Mr. Putin\u2019s outreach to Mr. Trump as he dangled the potential for vast wealth from Russian resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, hours before Mr. Trump harangued Mr. Zelensky at the White House, Mr. Putin sounded his new, pro-American message in the unlikeliest of places: the annual meeting of Russia\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, the F.S.B., which has been at the vanguard of Russia\u2019s shadow war against the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin said talks with the Trump administration \u201cinspire certain hopes,\u201d praised it for its \u201cpragmatism\u201d and called on the spies in attendance to resist attempts \u201cto disrupt or compromise the dialogue that has begun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The whiplash in ties with Washington was so stark that Russian state television on Sunday showed a reporter asking the Kremlin\u2019s spokesman how it was possible that \u201ca couple of months ago we were publicly saying that we were almost enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis, indeed, couldn\u2019t have been imagined,\u201d the spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, replied, marveling at the shift. American foreign policy, he added, now \u201ccoincides with our vision in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Kremlin\u2019s message makers are struggling to help Russians make sense of it all. Some commentators are dredging up historical precedent, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rogozin\/status\/1896090589973950966\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">going<\/a> as far back as Catherine the Great\u2019s refusal to help Britain put down the American Revolution. Others say it\u2019s the American voter who changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe American people got tired of global empire,\u201d a state TV talk-show stalwart, the filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/smotrim.ru\/article\/4368384?ysclid=m7mdg3q1fk885808836\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview with The New York Times, Yevgeny Popov \u2014 whose show, \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d is the most popular daily political program on Russian state TV \u2014 insisted that talk of cooperating with the United States was not extraordinary because American companies had done business in the Soviet Union even in the depths of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese are quite natural processes happening here,\u201d Mr. Popov said. \u201cWe want peaceful, constructive and pragmatic and, most importantly, equal relations with the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Mr. Popov pointed out that American weapons were killing Russian soldiers on Ukraine\u2019s battlefields, and that he did not believe there could soon be a friendly relationship with a country whose \u201ctanks were firing on our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some guests on his show have gone further. Aleksei Zhuravlyov, a<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>firebrand lawmaker <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/31\/russian-alexei-zhuravlev-threatens-us-destruction-with-missiles\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">known<\/a> for threatening the United States with nuclear annihilation, said on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d last week that Russia could \u201cmake friends with America and rule the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTrump needs us,\u201d Mr. Zhuravlyov <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/DeputatZhuravlev\/12065\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cDo we need Trump? We do. Do our interests coincide? They do. Against whom? Against the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Underlying Russia\u2019s interest in rapprochement with the United States are a grudging respect for the country and extensive personal ties, especially among the cultural and commercial elite. Ivan I. Kurilla, a scholar of U.S.-Russia relations at Wellesley College, said Russian and Soviet rulers long saw the United States as a nation worth emulating \u2014 whether in its economic prowess or its swagger on the world stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis duality of the view of America \u2014 it\u2019s been like this for a long time,\u201d said Mr. Kurilla, who was a professor at the European University at St. Petersburg until last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Popov, who used to be a Russian state television correspondent in New York, ticked off some of the things he believed Russia and the United States have in common: a strong executive, protectionist policies, large armies, market economies \u201cplus or minus\u201d and powerful law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe both have a police state in the good sense of the word,\u201d Mr. Popov said in a video call last week as he made his way through Moscow traffic. He concluded, addressing Americans, \u201cIf you want to understand what the Russians think, look in the mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The sudden prospect of improved ties with the United States cheered the Russian public, which pollsters say is increasingly eager for an end to the war in Ukraine and sees negotiations with Washington as a prerequisite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Levada Center, an independent pollster based in Moscow, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.levada.ru\/2025\/02\/28\/konflikt-s-ukrainoj-vnimanie-podderzhka-otnoshenie-k-peregovoram-i-vozmozhnym-ustupkam-mnenie-o-razlichnyh-usloviyah-mirnogo-soglasheniya-v-fevrale-2025-goda\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">found<\/a> in February that 75 percent of Russians would support an immediate end to the war, the highest reading since 2023, and that 85 percent approved of talks with the United States. Hopes of sanctions relief and the return of American investment helped drive up the Russian stock market by as much as 10 percent after the Trump-Putin call on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To some of the most fervent supporters of Russia\u2019s war, the embrace of Washington has smacked of betrayal, given that Mr. Putin has long described the invasion as a proxy war against American aggression. On the Telegram social messaging app, Russia\u2019s pro-war bloggers expressed surprise over Mr. Putin\u2019s proposal last week for cooperating with American companies to extract the country\u2019s natural resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A nationalist Telegram blog with more than a million followers, Two Majors, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/dva_majors\/65345\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wondered<\/a> how talk of \u201cthe evil desire of the damned Yankees to steal Russia\u2019s natural resources\u201d had morphed into discussion of \u201cmutually beneficial cooperation with American partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But for Mr. Putin himself, there may be a wisp of internal consistency in the swing toward Washington. He has generally avoided labeling the United States as a whole as Russia\u2019s enemy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rather, Mr. Putin has said it is the Western \u201cneoliberal elite\u201d that tries to impose its \u201cstrange\u201d values on the world and seeks Russia\u2019s destruction, while depicting American conservatives as Russia\u2019s friends. It\u2019s a mirror image of the propaganda tropes of the Soviet Union, when American progressives were cast as Moscow\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn the United States,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Putin said in 2022<\/a>, \u201cthere\u2019s a very strong part of the public who maintain traditional values, and they\u2019re with us. We know about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Milana Mazaeva and Alina Lobzina contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/05\/world\/europe\/russia-us-ukraine-trump-putin.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five weeks ago, Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergey V. 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