US ‘Should & Will’ Get Along with Russia – Trump
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- US ‘Should & Will’ Get Along with Russia – Trump
by https://www.rt.com/
President Donald Trump has expressed confidence that the world’s two nuclear superpowers would “get along” and that US relations with Russia will eventually improve from their record low, to if not “great,” then at the very least, “good.”
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“I hope that we do have good relations with Russia. I say it loud and clear, I’ve been saying it for years: I think it’s a good thing if we have great relationships, or at least good relationships with Russia,” the US president said during a joint news conference with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto.
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“It’s a big country, it’s a nuclear country, it’s a country that we should get along with, and I think we will eventually get along with Russia,” Trump added.
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Despite his vision of better relations with Moscow, Trump signed a bill earlier this month imposing new sanctions on Russia despite stating at the time that the motion was “seriously flawed.” He also criticized Congress for applying pressure to see it signed into law. Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev blasted the move as a declaration of a fully-fledged economic war, warning that it would have a decades-long negative effect on Russia-US relations.
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Later, when asked by a Finish journalist if the US considers Russia a security threat, in particular to the Baltic region, Trump dodged the answer by saying he “would consider many countries threats.”
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