... may be no coincidence that the Russian provocation happened within 24 hours of the North Korean one. This action is the sort of contemptuous gestures Putin used with the practitioner of “strategic patience,” Barack Obama. Our new president, Donald Trump, paying for his too willing outreach to Putin. Knowing our president, he doesn’t want to be another Obama! We must respond in a tough way. The president must go to the brink and even consider taking out the North Korean site that launched ...
.... Where is the US headed? Flickr / Elvert Barnes
Trump and Putin’s Joint Statement on Syria
Among the accomplishments of Donald Trump’s just completed Far East tour was a joint statement on November 11 with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Syria.... ... said, Syria was “a step in the right direction, but collaboration remains situational, not strategic.” Trump’s foe, Hillary Clinton, and her advisor, former acting CIA Director Mike Morell, had a very different agenda for Syria. In August 2016,...
... alleged that President Putin was looking to exact "revenge" on the US for a string of color revolutions which Washington had helped to stage along Russia's borders over the last decade-and-a-half. For this, WP claimed, the Kremlin was using Donald Trump, who has helped to spread a mood of protest and discontent in US society, while undermining its important institutions, including the electoral process itself.
Asked to comment on the regularity and insouciance with which such accusations are now made, Fedor Lukyanov, director of the Valdai Discussion Club, told Sputnik that they are an indication that the US is in the midst of a serious political and social crisis.
"One thing is clear," Lukyanov said. "The world ...
... election campaign is that it triggers a negative impact on the reputation of the US democracy and elections abroad particularly in authoritarian, non-democratic regimes, and vulnerable democracies. Both the republican and democratic presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have a share in that negative impact. Trump’s locker room comments regarding women and subsequent allegations by various women regarding his sexual misconduct caused a scandal. For foreign audience, the serial allegations by those ...
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REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Andrey Kortunov:
Russia Bids Farewell to Obama: A Message to
the New US President
In Leverett’s assessment, Hillary Clinton, as the establishment’s candidate, will attempt to preserve the US primacy in the region, and her arrival ... ... the Democrats are quite capable of abandoning their allies to their fate, and it will insure itself against possible risks.
Donald Trump and the Dream of Pragmatism
Unlike Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump doubts whether
the big Middle Eastern game is worth ...
... That is what we are now witnessing in the United States," Ivanov added.
The United States presidential election will be held on November 8. The main contenders for the post of the new head of the American administration are Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Source:
Sputniknews
... confrontation with Russia emerges perhaps as one of the key issues. However, no matter who wins the race – either Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump – Washington and Moscow will have to construct a pragmatic dialogue since it affects both their own wellbeing ... ... prove my point, let's take up my own foreign-ministerial experiences. George W. Bush officially became the 43rd president of the USA on January 20, 2001. In less than two months Russian Ambassador Yuri Ushakov was invited to the US Department of State and ...
... Russian-US cooperation does not mean that in choosing between Moscow and ISIS the US is siding with the terrorists. However, the refusal to cooperate with Russia is indicative: the US does not consider the ISIS threat dangerous enough to establish genuine partnership ... ... near future. Time has run out. A great deal depends on the outcome of the presidential elections in the US. The positions of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Syria and the Middle East in general are far apart, at least judging by their rhetoric.
That said, I will venture ...
American Presidential elections are approaching in November, and are getting more attention than normal this year because of two unusually high profile and controversial candidates: Hillary Clinton (Democrat) and Donald Trump (Republican). Polls as of mid-September suggest a close race. But while polls report voter preferences, it is important to understand that winning also depends on two other issues: first, which voters actually go to the polls, and second,...
Interview with Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky, Special Correspondent for
The Daily Beast
and Editor of
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
, shares his opinion on Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s election campaigns, as well as his thoughts on the future of Russia-U.S. relations. Tomasky is the author of
Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America
(1996), and of
Hillary's ...
