Following the White House clash between Donald Trump, JD Vance and President Zelensky Russia’s are in “celebratory” mood over the US President.
Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s Russia editor in Moscow told Newshour that Russian’s believe “Trump behaved stoically” and he looked “like a [chess] grandmaster” after verbally attacking President Zelensky.
Rosenberg wrote on X, “I doubt that Donald Trump watches Russian state TV ‘s weekly news review. But he would surely approve of anchor Dmitry Kiselev’s take on Friday’s Oval Office drama: “Trump behaved stoically…Trump stood up for Vance like a lion…Trump looked like a [chess] Grandmaster…”
He told Newshour, “There is this atmosphere of celebration here that having lost the Cold War, more than 30-years on, Russia feels it’s turning the tables on the West with this new relationship with America.”
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Following Sir Keir Starmer’s London summit over the weekend Rosenberg said that the “Russians have been very dismissive” of it.
He said, “I think they believe that whatever peace plan France and the UK and Ukraine come up with, it won’t get through Donald Trump.
He added: “I think the Russians believe that Moscow is building a new relationship with Washington with the Trump administration, and that Donald Trump would prefer to get on with building this relationship with Russia rather than standing by Ukraine.”
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press secretary, told reporters, “We see that the collective West has partially begun to lose its collectively.
“A sort of fragmentation of the collective West has begun – the formation of nuanced positions from a number of countries and groups of countries.
“There remains a group of countries which rather constitutes the party of war, which declares that it is ready to further support Ukraine in terms of supporting the war.”
Russian politician Vyacheslav Nikonov told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, “The Western system is collapsing like a house of cards”.
Also an academic was quoted in paper saying, “Russia cannot conceal its malicious pleasure.”
Last week following the Oval Office shouting match, Dmitry Medvedev slammed President Zelensky and sided with Trump, he said, “a brutal dressing down in the Oval Office” as he got a “solid slap.”
Medvedev agreed with Trump, he wrote on X, “The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office. And @realDonaldTrump is right: The Kiev regime is “gambling with WWIII.”
