The Kremlin’s New Mouthpiece: How Trump’s Team Is Alienating the West—and Uniting It
Sabotage abroad, distraction at home.
Only a gang of feckless ideologues would pick a fight with America’s top four trade partners just to cozy up to the Kremlin. But that’s exactly what Trump’s reckless administration is doing. There is nothing average Americans or U.S. businesses gain by cozying up to Russia while burning bridges with the European Union, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
And it’s not just Trump. His whole orbit is parroting the same Kremlin-scripted nonsense. His envoy to Russia and the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is now doing media rounds spouting raw Russian propaganda. It’s gotten so absurd that, just yesterday, Russian state media declared: “The Kremlin and the U.S. are now speaking the same language.”
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