Five weeks ago, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, delivered a routine speech criticizing the United States and other Western countries. However, in a recent interview on Russian state television, Lavrov shifted his view and blamed Europe, not America, for global issues like colonization, wars, and fascist developments. He praised the United States for not playing an instigating role in these problems. This change in the Russian narrative is occurring alongside President Trump’s updated foreign policy, which is causing a shift in Russia’s perception of the United States, considering it now as not an enemy but a potential partner.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/world/europe/russia-us-ukraine-trump-putin.html