Clinton also claims that Republican nominee Donald Trump is showing support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Regardless of whether or not he truly made a mistake and did not know Russian Federation had already invaded Crimea, what is certain is that Trump is definitely embracing a connection with Putin.
“And for Trump to both encourage that and to praise Putin despite what appears to be a deliberate effort to try to affect the election, I think, raises national security issues”.
In case you missed it: Since he praised Russia’s bombing of American-backed opposition fighters in Syria and called into question the United States’ North Atlantic Treaty obligation to the defense of the Baltic states, Trump has suggested he might recognize Russia’s annexation of the Crimea and argued America needs to restore its relations with Putin.
“You can take it anywhere you want”, Trump said in an interview for ABC’s “This Week”, according to CNN Politics.
The presidential candidate also pointed out that for the time being Ukraine submerged in riots. “With all the strength that you’re talking about, and with all the power of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and all of this, in the mean time, [Putin] takes Crimea”.
TRUMP: “If we can have a good relationship with Russian Federation and if Russian Federation would help us get rid of ISIS… that would be a positive thing, not a negative thing”.
Trump continues to talk off the top of his head about serious national-security and foreign-policy issues that statements that have no relationship with the actual facts or any understanding of history. A year later, Trump said, “I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success”. The combination of these two can create a uniquely Trumpian problem – the media hyping an outrageous thing that it sounds like Trump said, when the real problem is that Trump actually meant a different, equally outrageous thing. “I’d have to take a look at it, but I was not involved in that”.
Page is an investment banker who has criticized the Obama administration for “fomenting” Yanukovych’s ouster, which infuriated Putin. Crimea has been taken.
The explanation still did not make clear what Trump holds Crimea’s status to be, inside Ukraine or not.
While the original version of the Republican Party platform is not public and unavailable, news outlets reported that it contained language that included arming Ukraine in its fight against Russian Federation.
We have been documenting Donald’s alarming ties to and comments about Russian Federation, and have noted the contradictions in his assertions about whether or not he knows Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump said in an April 2014 interview that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “so smart”. Trump has been talking about the Russian invasion of Crimea and involvement in eastern Ukraine for years; he didn’t magically forget about it on Sunday.
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“The shift to a dovish posture moves the platform more in alignment with Trump’s own foreign policy stance on Ukraine, which is considerably more dovish than most (but not all) Republican foreign policy experts”, said Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University.
