Russia formally declares the US as 'enemy'. What next?
Experts tell TRT World Russia’s game plan is to keep nudging NATO’s European states into believing that Washington is using them as mere tools of expansion rather than true allies.
Speaking to TRT World, experts said there's actually “nothing new here” because publicly stated or not, “the United States has long been considered by Russia as its enemy.” / Photo: AP
After months of rising tensions over Ukraine between Russia and the US, bilateral relations have hit a new low as the Kremlin spokesperson defined the US an "enemy."
Press secretary to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov reportedly said, “We are now an enemy country for them, just as they are for us,” during a press briefing on Tuesday.
The Kremlin had previously referred to the US and Western nations supporting Ukraine as "unfriendly states" or "opponents" due to high tensions over Ukraine’s use of American-supplied weapons on Russian territory.
However, according to Agentstvo, an independent Russian investigative site, this is the first time they have publicly labelled the US as an "enemy" state.
