Russia has offered a cautiously optimistic but deeply scrutinizing response to the newly released National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States, signaling that while the document marks a strategic shift in Washington’s worldview, many parts of it remain unclear, contradictory, or potentially destabilizing. On December 8, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova delivered a detailed analysis of the strategy, outlining both the opportunities it creates for US-Russia cooperation and the risks it continues to pose for global stability.

The strategy, published by the administration of President Donald Trump, departs notably from the 2022 NSS unveiled under President Joe Biden. Zakharova said the new document overturns several long-standing assumptions that shaped US foreign policy over the past decade, particularly Washington’s claims to global hegemony and its insistence on maintaining a US-centric international order. According to Moscow, this new tone-though far from conciliatory-reflects a degree of realism absent from the previous administration’s approach.

One of the most notable shifts, according to Zakharova, is the NSS’s implicit acknowledgment of past American “miscalculations” associated with globalist foreign policy frameworks. By placing a “mistaken and destructive bet on globalism,” the United States alienated partners, provoked conflict, and overstretched its geopolitical commitments, she said. Moscow interprets the new strategy’s language as an admission that Washington’s previous approach produced instability and failed to account for the rise of multipolarity.

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman also emphasized the........

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