The head of a think tank advising the Kremlin, Fyodor Lukyanov, said Putin is under no illusion that Erdogan would pull the plug on decades of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation membership, but the rising anti-Americanism in Turkey opens the door to turning what has been a tense relationship into a deep partnership. The United States and the European Union worked together to punish Russian Federation by imposing economic sanctions and have shown no willingness to lift them.
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Erdogan’s widening roundup of tens of thousands of suspected followers of the Pennsylvania-based cleric he blames for the attempted takeover, Fethullah Gulen, includes many USA allies and contacts, hampering counterterrorism efforts, two senior American officials said.
He added, “If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean, to be honest with you, I’d love to see them”.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the visit will also include talks “on bilateral issues and business ties”.
The real estate mogul sent a tweet after the presser ended encouraging “Russia or any other country or person” who has accessed the emails to share them with the FBI, which completed an investigation into Clinton’s private server without recommending any charges against the former secretary of state. You take a look at what was said in those emails, it’s disgraceful.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post pleaded with voters to “take note of one more reason Mr. Trump must not acquire the powers of the presidency”. He said one nice thing about me. “It can’t be worse”, Trump said.
“It’s called a debate”, said Cohen.
Wading into the USA election campaign, the Ukrainian ambassador said he expected any future United States president to respect UN decisions rejecting Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Putin was outraged by US support for Ukraine and by USA military intervention around the world, particularly in Libya, on Clinton’s watch.
A Trump campaign communications adviser, Jason Miller, said on Twitter that Trump never urged or invited Russian Federation to hack Clinton’s emails.
Trump’s supporters tried to give the Republican presidential nominee some cover Thursday morning. And Democrats were the ones faulting Romney for saying that Russian Federation was America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe”.
Against that backdrop, Trump’s remarks raising doubts about honoring U.S. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation commitments created an global uproar.
“Maybe we will, maybe we won’t”, Trump says when asked by Bill O’Reilly about whether he and Putin would have a good relationship.
“The Kremlin tries to maintain deniability in whatever it does – in Crimea, in eastern Ukraine – and so here I would [suggest] that maintaining plausible deniability will be Moscow’s goal”, Igor Zevelev, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon. “It’s about handling a very delicate and volatile situation that can go sour very quickly”.
Trump, whose wife Melania was born in the town of Sevnica while Slovenia was still part of Communist-run Yugoslavia, has sided with Putin on a wide range of issues, including saying that, if elected, he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and would not necessarily back North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members if Putin chose to invade.
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The Kremlin has denied interfering in the US election. Cooperation extends to the Iran nuclear deal, North Korea and more.
