America meets Europe: Russian media celebrates "disintegration in Munich"

Daily Wrap America meets Europe: Russian media celebrates "disintegration in Munich" Katarzyna Staszko • 1 hour • 2 minutes reading time "Europe was hit with a deep blow by America and is still struggling to catch its breath," "the disintegration in Munich" and "a noticeable crack in Euro-Atlantic solidarity" - such headlines appeared in the Russian press on Monday. Pro-Kremlin media commented on the impact of the Munich conference in this way. Much of the information disseminated by Russian media or government officials is part of propaganda. Such reports are part of the information war that the Russian Federation is waging. - Trump's call to Putin and J.D. Vance's speech at the Munich security conference - which came as a shock to European leaders, was very well received in Moscow, says Steve Rosenberg, Russian BBC correspondent. BBC journalist Rosenberg quotes headlines from the Russian Monday press, all of which deal with the events mentioned and are almost identical in tone. Russian media on the disintegration of Europe and the success of the Trump administration The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets writes that "the old world has been overthrown, it is stunned. Europe, hit with a low blow by America, is still gasping for air." Regarding the phone call between Trump and Putin, the newspaper assesses that it was a "psychological blow for the European part of the collective West. A political earthquake, a seven on the Richter scale." - Another commentator from the same newspaper sums up the mentioned conversation as follows: "Trump called Putin. Vladimir, you have a great country. And I have a great country. Shall we go and divide the world? (...) Let's do it," the BBC journalist continues. Komsomolskaya Pravda presents the headline "Collapse in Munich" and assesses that "for the first time a noticeable crack in Euro-Atlantic solidarity has appeared." Nezavisimaya Gazeta announces that "a bomb exploded in Munich in the war between the US and the EU." According to Kommersant, the security conference in Munich became a symbol of the rift between the new US administration and old Europe. - Instead of criticizing Russia and China, as was the case before, Europe criticized itself - the journalist quotes an article. According to the author of the article, the "chaos in Munich" pleased the Kremlin authorities. The government-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta describes a "cold shower for the European elites" in the morning, while Izvestia points out that the European Union must fulfill American conditions on the Ukrainian issue. Finally, Vedomosti wrote, commenting on Vance's appearance, that "the older partner gave the younger one new guidelines," and the course of the conference "embarrassed the EU representatives." According to the Russian newspaper, Washington "is no longer ready for full solidarity with the European NATO partners and is basically seeking a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine without the EU." As the British journalist points out, there is an optimistic attitude in the Kremlin, and Moscow is very confident. State-affiliated television spoke in the evening of a destructive tsunami for America's European allies.