Other Republicans, including rival Jeb Bush, mocked the exchange.
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While Republicans have hammered President Barack Obama for failing to do enough to halt Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine, Trump called for decreased USA involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.
Where once it shunned Russian Federation and imposed sanctions on its economy to punish Putin for his aggression against Ukraine, now Kerry publicly thanks Moscow for its “constructive” role in Syria.
During one presidential debate, he said: “If Putin wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS [the Islamic State group], I am all for it, 100%, and I can’t understand how anybody would be against it”.
Turkey says the SU-24 fighter-bomber, part of Russia’s Syria-based strike force, strayed into its airspace and ignored repeated warnings to leave.
In Vladimir Putin’s view, Donald Trump is “bright and talented”. “This was simply just a powerful man recognizing someone in the United States, running for president, who is also a powerful man. It was not an endorsement”.
The Starbucks store located in Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in New York November 10, 2015.
Trump was asked during one of the debates in September what he would do to get Russia’s military presence out of Syria, and answered that he would first get Putin’s respect.
“Maybe we should boycott Starbucks? I don’t know if the Americans need this”. “By the way, that’s the end of that lease but who cares”.
Putin said that had the downing of the plane been an accident, Turkish leaders should have tried to “pick up the phone and explain themselves”.
Denouncing Turkey’s behaviour as “an act of enmity”, Mr Putin declared: “It’s hard, or practically impossible, for us to reach agreement with Turkey’s current leadership”. “How can we not welcome that?” Of course not! For the rest of us, though, it does provide a certain amount of entertainment value.
Trump responded that he was honoured.
Trump said in response that “it is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond”.
His efforts appeared to bear fruit, as Putin declared at his annual news conference December 17: “We support the initiative of the United States, including on working out a resolution of the UN Security Council on Syria”.
“There is a plan”, Putin said.
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President Vladimir Putin has said an analysis of the black box would help determine the downed jet’s flight path and position, which Ankara and Moscow have furiously disagreed upon. “But it doesn’t mean regular Russian troops are there – be aware of the difference”, Mr Putin said, in comments that recalled the way he dismissed, and later confirmed, that Russian forces annexed Crimea previous year. “I haven’t spent a lot of time contemplating the consequences of a Trump presidency”, Earnest said.
