The United States is shocked by the capabilities of Russia, which has mastered “new generation methods of confrontation”
Russia and China are “revisionist powers” that challenge US prosperity and seek to undermine its security. This is stated in the National Security Strategy (NSS) released on Monday, in which US President Donald Trump described his vision of the country’s foreign policy priorities. сообщает Kommersant.
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The key idea of the document, the publication notes, is that competition between great powers, which was previously discounted as an atavism of previous centuries, has returned: the United States is now opposed by Russia and China, which “intend to make the economy less free and fair, to build up their military potential, control information and data, repress their societies and spread their influence.”
The strategy, the publication points out, represents the executive branch’s view of the current historical moment, and the task of this doctrinal document is to explain the priorities of the US President to Congress, which will subsequently have to decide whether to provide the head of state with funds to implement his plans.
The document identifies the DPRK as the third enemy of the United States.
“The document actually puts China on the same level as Russia, which, let us recall, was legally established by Congress as an “enemy of the United States” back in August. If the document accuses Moscow of trying to “change the status quo in Georgia and Ukraine,” then Beijing, according to the authors, is trying to do the same in Southeast Asia. There, we recall, Washington supports its partners and allies (the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia) in a territorial dispute with China, which considers 90% of the strategically important South China Sea its waters. For this, as well as for “unfair trade practices,” the report awarded China the title of “strategic rival” of the United States,” writes Kommersant.
The United States will also confront its main adversaries in cyberspace, where it intends to “pursue all malicious forces.” The publication recalls that a week before the publication of the document, Donald Trump's national security adviser Herbert Raymond McMaster told reporters that Russia had mastered “new generation methods of confrontation” and was “using disinformation, propaganda and cyber attacks to divide the societies of the two countries and pit them against each other.” , create a crisis of confidence."
“Donald Trump’s four stated foreign policy priorities (“defending the homeland, Americans, and the American way of life,” “ensuring American prosperity,” “building peace through strength,” and “extending American influence”) position the United States not as a global superpower and “the capital of the world.” ”, but simply as a powerful nation-state competing with other states in a “zero-sum game”. The mention of “the president’s eleven months of efforts to restore respect for the United States abroad” paints an image of the country as having suffered defeat in the recent past and in need of recognition from others,” the publication concludes.
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