Dmitry Peskov and Donald Trump

The Kremlin has welcomed Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy document and claimed it is “largely consistent with our vision”.

The US president unveiled a new framework for his administration’s foreign policy and defence priorities on Friday, at a time when many in Europe hold wider concerns that Washington has a pro-Russia bias.

The NSS largely ignores the threat Russia poses to the west and instead concentrates a lot of its content on targeting America’s allies in Europe.

It claims economic decline in the continent is “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilisational erasure” – while also claiming the EU’s activities “undermine political liberty and sovereignty”.

The NSS calls for the US to be “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” and praises the “growing influence of patriotic European parties”.

Certain Nato members may become “majority non-European” because of immigration,

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