And in 2011, Putin accused the U.S. State Department and Hillary Clinton, its then head, of stirring up street protests against his rule.
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“His statements about Putin have become the story”, he said. He waved back and shook their hands.
Pifer said: “If he becomes president, Trump will seek more cordial relations to Russian Federation and reduce U.S. support for Ukraine”.
Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s intentions toward the Kremlin.
Trump’s senior communications advisor, Jason Miller – in a series of tweets – clarified that Trump was not calling for Russian Federation – or anyone else – to hack and leak, saying, “To be clear, Mr. Trump did not call on, or invite, Russian Federation or anyone else to hack Hillary Clinton’s e-mails today”, and “Trump was clearly saying that if Russian Federation or others have Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, they should share them w/ Federal Bureau of Investigation immed”.
With Russia’s behavior rattling nerves in the US and overseas, the Republican presidential nominee is accused of cozying up to a “dictator”. I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely bribery and blackmail. The danger of Turkey turning the Black Sea into “a lake” by closing the Bosphorus to Russian naval ships based in Crimea is now gone, he said. This is where the pundits go wrong – when they look to attach sophisticated motives to Moscow’s meddling.
On Wednesday, Trump offered this vision for rosier U.S.
“Many of our interlocutors have been purged or arrested”, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday in Colorado. Russian hackers have been blamed for the leak, which the country has denied saying that it doesn’t involve itself in the internal politics of another country.
With Turkey’s relations with the US and Europe now “very uncertain”, Putin senses an unprecedented opportunity to forge a strategic relationship with Erdogan that could have repercussions in Syria and beyond, Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the foreign affairs committee of Russia’s upper house of parliament, said in a phone interview.
Slovenian officials portrayed Putin’s visit as strictly informal and ceremonial, but said he would talk with officials on economic and bilateral issues.
Putin’s government has been rolling back the sanctions it imposed on Turkey for shooting down a fighter jet near the border with Syria since June, when Erdogan ended months of intense acrimony by expressing regret for the incident.
At the small, Orthodox-style wooden church named St. Vladimir chapel, Putin was met by Slovenian President Borut Pahor. Of threatening the very underpinnings of America’s relationship with Europe. Cybersecurity issues have only grown in importance, and the next president will need to clarify the US policy on the matter, she said.
Trump also said in a New York Times interview that he would only defend a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally from Russian invasion if the member state were meeting its defense spending obligations in the alliance.
Ukraine’s United Nations ambassador on Thursday, July 28, dismissed as “null and void” a decree by Russian President Vladimir Putin incorporating annexed Crimea into his country’s southern region.
Asked about comments he had made Wednesday at a news conference in Florida, where he said “Putin has much better leadership qualities than Obama”, Trump reiterated his views in slightly starker terms.
Putin also commented on Trump a year ago and said that he is “colorful and talented”, words that Trump twisted and repeated as “genius”.
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Steven Pifer, a former USA ambassador to Ukraine and now a Senior Fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution think tank, told DW: “Irrespective of who’s behind that initiative and of what the motives are, ultimately the platform is different from what a number of leading Republicans had called for in Congress – military aid for Ukraine, in the form of lethal weapons”.
