Paul Goble
Staunton, Mar. 7 -- Since the start of Putin's expanded war in Ukraine, Russian government media have routinely referred to Kyiv's primary backers as "the Anglo-Saxons," a term meant to underscore that Britain and the US were to blame for resistance to Moscow and to separate them from the Europeans.
But now that the US has changed its position and the Europeans have become more prominent in supporting Kyiv, the Kremlin has ordered Russian media to stop using that term. Instead, they re to attack the Europeans, including the English, who are standing more firm against Moscow in Ukraine than is the US (moscowtimes.ru/2025/03/07/propagande-skomandovali-hvatit-gossmi-perestali-nazivat-amerikantsev-anglosaksami-a157361).
Moscow's purpose, of course, remains the same: to demonize and divide the West; but with the reordering of the international chessboard, the notion that Moscow has been fighting the Anglo-Saxon countries in the first instance now longer works, at least as far as Kremlin propagandists are concerned.
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