"Good evening Russia. Today again. Very good news from America."
That's how every broadcast opens on Moscow's happiest TV channel. Spasibo America is a satirical Russian hardbass song, told by a Russian state-TV host who can hardly believe his luck. For years, the Kremlin had to fight the West. Now the White House sends presents.
The song is the follow-up to War & Eggs, and the target is the same: Donald Trump, and a foreign policy that looks like Christmas every week when seen from Moscow. The trick is simple. We let the Kremlin's own propaganda do the praising. When the people you're supposed to stand up to start raising a glass in your honour, something has gone very wrong.
Every line is built on something that really happened:
"One phone call / Sanctions fly away / America buys our diesel"
In October 2026, right after a phone call between Trump and Putin, the US suspended its sanctions on Russian diesel until April 2027.
"Kyiv needs new president / Best idea he ever had"
Trump has criticised Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil refineries and suggested that Ukrainians should replace Zelensky.
"Drone flies too fast / Starlink says goodnight / Nobody did it"
Days later, Ukraine's military Starlink connections were capped at 160 km/h, hitting the very drones meant to shoot down Russian attack drones. Musk said the US government decides those limits. Trump said it wasn't him. Nobody did it.
"At UN they vote with us / And North Korea too"
In February 2025, the US voted with Russia and North Korea against a UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"Some people say Krasnov"
The old, unproven claim that the KGB recruited Trump under the codename Krasnov. Our host confirms nothing. He just smiles.
The video was made in Google Veo and edited in DaVinci Resolve. A grey-haired officer with a huge moustache reads the good news into an old microphone, an army choir in fur hats gets drunker with every chorus, a babushka out-dances everyone, and the party slowly swaps its fur hats for red caps.
Satire. All characters in the song and video are fictional. Music made with Suno.
And yes, it's spelled Spasibo, but they say "spasiba".
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