Here’s what Trump said about Putin: “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK?”
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TRUMP on Putin: “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK”. Discussing the Iran nuclear deal, Senator Tom Cotton, a hawkish Republican, told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg, “It’s unfair to Neville Chamberlain to compare him to Barack Obama”.
Designed by Russian sculptors and artists, the monument consists of a colonnade of eight-faceted stellae of different heights, TASS writes.
“You can take it anywhere you want”, Trump said in the interview on “This Week”.
How inconvenient for all those Vichy Republican hawks who thought Trump would be a “strong” leader.
“And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it’s a mess”. You can put it down.
Trump’s possible ties to Putin have come under scrutiny since he said on 27 July that he hoped Russian Federation, which is said to have hacked the Democratic National Committee, could find deleted messages sent by Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. “Am I wrong in saying this?”
Despite its official stance, Kremlin-backed TV has tilted its coverage in favor of Trump, whom Putin has called “very talented”. The Kiev authorities knew Russian Federation was preparing something in Crimea – and they decided not to fight it. Trumps vision of being “strong” when it comes to Russia isn’t standing against Russian interests; it’s standing with them.
“I really don’t understand the question”, Manafort said.
“If we accept the position that big states can ride roughshod over little states, that treaties are irrelevant and that we don’t care whether we have solemn commitments to allies we are encouraging further attacks against our allies in Europe, Asia and the Middle East”, said Stephen Blank, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.
In an interview on ABC News programme This Week, Mr Trump appeared to suggest he did not know Mr Putin had already seized control of the south-east of parts of Ukraine and was supplying Moscow-supporting rebels with arms, logistical support and even fighters.
“They softened it, I heard, but I was not involved”, Trump responded. It’s already falling. You go into our airports, you go look at our bridges, you look at our roadways, we’re becoming a third-world country. “In the meantime, they took over Crimea and I understood that”, said Trump to Bill O’Reily, according to POLITICO. “I don’t know who Putin is”. “I think it would be great to get along with him”.
Trump argued that he was misunderstood, while continuing to make pro-Russian comments unheard from any serious presidential candidate in generations.
It’s too late to change the Trump campaign’s Russian Federation policy, and there’s no point trying to deny it. Trump and Manafort should just admit what their staffers did and defend the action on its merits, if they can. Here’s a third, barely three months ago, in an obscure newspaper called the New York Times.
“I have no relationship with Putin”.
Trump has repeatedly said it would be good for the United States to have a strong relationship with Russian Federation.
Stephanopoulos: “You were in NY”.
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In the wake of the annexation, NATO suspended the NATO-Russia Council, which led to the alliance’s worst relations with Moscow since the end of the Cold War.
