Russian President Vladimir Putin’s security council deputy suggested on Thursday that the United States suffers from a phenomenon of American citizens “openly hating each other” in recent years.

“A division of values, I should say, even a civilizational split, has set in between different parts of America,” Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev told state media outlets. “It is not about the contradictions in their ideology so much as it is about them not listening to each other or even openly hating each other.”