Putin made the remarks when asked about the prospect of a new USA president during his annual news conference in Moscow on Thursday.
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Scarborough: “Well, I mean, it’s also a person who kills journalists, political opponents, and invades countries”.
Russian Federation has no intention of damaging relations with the people of Turkey, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Saturday, while making clear that Moscow’s ties with Ankara will not improve under the current Turkish leadership.
Trump noted that Putin had called him smart, which Trump said is “always good, especially when the person heads up Russian Federation”. “So I am confused, you obviously condemn Vladimir Putin killing journalists and political opponents, right?” “And I’m sure that Obama doesn’t like him very much”, Trump had said. I think Trump would probably be sympathetic, I actually know he would be sympathetic because he is set so exclusively towards many of Putin’s and Russia’s actions against ISIS. “And I don’t think you’d be having the kind of problems that you’re having right now”. There’s a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now.
Censoring the Internet, killing innocent families of terrorists, supporting Syria’s bloody dictator-the two men have a lot of positions in common. And that’s the way it is.
“He’s a strong leader, he’s a powerful leader”.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said she would not talk to Putin but take firm actions in Europe to send a message of American strength, including building up the Sixth Fleet and holding “regular, aggressive military exercises in the Baltic states”. “He wants to move to a different level of relations, to more solid, deeper relations with Russian Federation and how can Russian Federation not welcome that-we welcome that”. Putin seemed to welcome Trump’s rise and expressed interest in working with him in the future.
While the Obama administration regarded Russia’s airstrikes in Syria gingerly, Trump was a full-throated supporter – even if Moscow has appeared to be more interested in helping prop up Syrian President Bashar Assad than fighting militants from the Islamic State group in the country.
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“We will help settle this crisis in every possible way, and we will try to find solutions acceptable for all parties”, he said. It endorses the 17-member ISSG as the main body dealing with the Syria peace process; validates the peace plan agreed to by the ISSG in Vienna last month, including a ceasefire between the regime and opposition in six months and talks leading to drafting a new constitution; and gives the United Nations a leading role in working with the regime and opposition on negotiating a ceasefire and drafting a constitution, which officials said is aimed at putting an global stamp on the peace process.
