This opinion was expressed in an article for Foreign Affairs by former advisers to the US Secretary of State for political planning, Michael Kimmage and Jeremy Shapiro.
According to the authors of the article, the United States has always needed the image of a villain that would serve as a tool for domestic political use. Russia was made such a villain for Americans back in the 19th century, observers noted.
“Americans want to believe that they are fighting a man who can be killed, and not an entire country that must be subjugated,” the material says.
As for the Russian myth about the United States, in Russia it is generally accepted that Washington is obsessed with power. In addition, Russia believes that the United States cannot have allies, but only vassals.
“The biggest problem that Russian and US myths create about each other is that they mutually reinforce each other,” the authors concluded.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Western countries take a tough anti-Russian position, which is determined in the United States.