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day. working together. we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the american dream. family the 9th 26 stage and donald trump had just been elected as the new president of the united states and every clinton the favorite at last she came gradually it is costs about us. for our victory. in moscow the election result was also being son of rated. pseudo assume guns that you we are pleased that the best candidate has won by the lead grandma hillary have a rest bob was to kill it was god the guy. let's follow up question steve nash before we were baffled me will not cut it in the

state duma and. in the study mears aronofsky held a special reception to celebrate trump's victory. last. also as well for if there were reports of people popping champagne corks at the time like little going i don't know anyone personally but i heard about it well a lot of grandeur is part of the russian national character. and was one of the fast to congratulate the surprise when a donald trump. russia wants to completely restore its relationship with the usa. to say that the fact that trump was focusing on the slogan make america great again that he wanted to promote his own country rather than pushing for globalization with them was good news for us russians. blues jim jim mean it that you didn't address you as any abuse. president putin and president trump shook

hands on a new friendship about the 1st 2 years of presidency overshadowed by the so-called russian a fact the charge was conspiracy against the united states did the 2 men illegally collude. i never worked for russia and you know that answer better than anybody i never worked for russia. there were signs of male bonding every time the 2 presidents matt found could a true partnership ever really develop. could these men really become friends all what it states destined to remain enemies. like. that you. know you're on the. morning of threats that's not my kind of. thing. but it never worked.

we're. back to 26 teams. in the run up to the u.s. presidential elections russia's state media backed the republican candidate donald trump a man known for his affinity towards russia. would have a great relationship with putin and russia. political tensions between russia and the u.s. had been rising and mounting even to talk of a new cold war. don't spill the politics of u.s. democrats and president obama and steer the russian american relationship down a blind alley if. the democrats new presidential candidate must putin's arch enemy hillary clinton. is the kiddo.

not really even compared him with hitler quite blatantly he said he was just like hitler so it was obvious there will asians would be difficult if she became president of. moscow paned all its hopes on donald trump to revive the relationship between the 2 nations. into strange tromp expressed himself quite differently he said he would find a common language with putin doable that was possible to work together with putin stores which in the end that's exactly what he was planning to do meets. donald trump and fatima putin 2 man with 2 common enemies hillary clinton and barack obama. despite having different reasons trump and putin both share the feeling of being disparage the outgoing u.s. president and the american establishment.

i think that from perspective donald trump was a better prospect to lead the usa than hillary clinton was a whole what are most. personal adama's position and had tried to outperform him several times in world politics without success. she was clearly an hour. buttons mistrust of the us its president and its allies was deep rooted. for the after the collapse of the soviet union putin had experienced what western betrayal actually meant the expansion of nato into formally communist eastern europe you know at the abortion should 1st poland joined then it was the czech republic and hungary then it went on and on and on it is now the baltic states lithuania latvia estonia are all members of nato too they share borders with russia

. which makes it should putin or anyone else trust a word the west says if you don't know for example the strategy on usenet. even with president obama relations did not improve. was rattled by obama's advocacy of regime change in the arab world. you also have missiles allow this issue shift the soon to be always had the feeling that things are moving in the wrong direction that nothing was going the way it should. the key change was the arab spring there was that will leave year the situation in libya was dramatic and then gadhafi the head of state was murdered live on camera but what came out over the years through that same must if it really hard to see live cheaply and which in the least that. trumps dislike of obama on

the other hand was personal not political. 2011 was a trial run for trump he launched his own unofficial election campaign aiming to run as the republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election challenging obama let me tell you. he doesn't like donald trump and the last guy in the world that he wants to run against is donald trump. trump rekindled an old rumor about obama claiming that his true birthplace was kenya and that the president was therefore not eligible for office trump was not i think on anybody's radar other than as a bit of a lark right in this in this back and forth and in again as with so many things about trump you don't take it seriously at 1st because it's just seems so outlandish and bizarre. obama finally published his birth certificate in april 20th at the traditional correspondents' dinner in washington

the president hits back no one is that no one is prouder. to put this birth certificate matter to less than the donald. and that's because they can get back to focusing on the issues that matter. like. did we fake the moon landing. a slap in the face but donald trump wouldn't quickly forget is showpiece had backfired. 2 weeks later he withdrew his presidential candidacy but trump declared that he would still win at the next election. to arrogant to be true. trump sought his revenge on obama.

and he was not the only one in russia putin 2 was waiting for the moment to take revenge on his american counterpart but 1st he had to win an election himself. yet in the run up to the elections of march 2012 moscow became the epicenter of an unprecedented wave of demonstrations against the government. just much in his post we are but one is can we would have kept out of party protests began after the parliamentary elections in early december 27th in the country here to be raked. each year what happened were next was what happens elsewhere when citizens realize their votes i'm not being heard correctly they go out on the streets just that it would stop what guten blamed hillary clinton for giving the signal for the protests . a lot of women. at the

same time she was secretary of state with the u.s. state department provided funding for russian n.g.o.s to observe the elections to putin this was direct interference in his regime. hillary clinton wanted to topple him and organize a revolution in russia also as you. note in decided to smash the opposition. and accuse us of threatening russia and its traditional values. and that's something of a result of his in 2012 i warned my friends from the liberal camps to prepare for the inevitable but he also got us they would have to take sides either us i mean russia or the west it is up of.

everyone who has said yes to a strong russia i ask you will we win but i feel medium. takes paid off he was the clear winner of the presidential elections with 64 percent of the votes. because i'm sure i'll each of you open hootin has shown that his politics are geared towards traditional values and family loyalty to the people at summit and service to the fatherland. these values have always been typical of the russian service class as it used to be called to them. it was over there. in nov 2012th president obama was also vienna his 2nd time because. we had fought our way

bet and we know it all hearts. it for the united states of america the best is yet to come. russia however was not very high on obama's agenda. there's no big economic relationship there is no big need at the moment for focusing on the nuclear weapons or nonproliferation the trees weren't coming up right at that point so for obama it was a focus completely on other issues on the middle east on terrorism and domestic affairs . russia wasn't was really an afterthought. but one u.s. citizen was spying for putin's attention donald trump as early as 2013 he

had recognized that russia was also a land of unlimited opportunities as the owner of the rights to miss universe trump had voted to hold the beauty pageant in moscow. launched a charm offensive on twitter. and be his new best friend. he was certain that putin would attend the contest. in november 23rd trump arrives in moscow ranked by beauty queens. moscow's a city that does glitz really well and trump as we know it is a guy who likes a lot of flash the more it gleams gold the more exciting it is to him. it's an amazing location in moscow and all of russia is going wild over it so we're very happy the miss universe pageant is just setting records as. russian billionaire. was hosting the event trump had met him just 5 months previously in las vegas.

mikhail fired off editor in chief of g q russian magazine at the time was approached by us are a lot off to write a cover story. refused. my compromise was that we're not going to write anything about you know slow horror but like i will come and like i'll hang out at the opening party for the pageant and they. will get photographed for you know for the society pages. in spite of all aguilar offs efforts to persuade putin to attend the beauty pageant the russian president didn't turn up. trumps trip to russia later fueled allegations that moscow had recruited him as an agent engineered by host aguilar

off a man with close contacts in the kremlin. and. if i knew. this. idiotic event would somehow become kind of the crux the focal point of the 21st century biggest conspiracy theory i would probably pay closer attention or try to hang out with trump and that girl or of zz but i really doubt honestly that this is when the plot was hatched. jaring his stay in moscow trump continued his offensive against obama for russia all over the world people are laughing at us they're ripping us off i mean we're you look at what's going on in russia in moscow you look at how it's just booming and how well it does and they have the olympics and as you know we tried to get the olympics and came in 4th place you know figure that

one out 4th place. yet putin ignored his advances and slid it was she didn't know for the streets of sydney average russian not the trump was a money magnetic little young man with a trophy wife who she was to build towers all over the world with little used no more than that. he was a businessman one of many of the post a businessman i don't think putin perceived him any differently at this point which incremental to cause them all. giving up was not an option for donald trump he was determined to find a way to get food into tension but the russian president had more important plans he wanted to get his country back on the well stay fast and he could see a way to do it. in early 2014 the ukrainian peninsula of crimea became the center of the most serious east west crisis since the end of the cold war on the 22nd of february victor genack over to

moscow during all president of ukraine was ousted from office and realized he had to take action the islamist move on which you. president since he couldn't help president young converts to stay in power ukraine had to be punished you know so he wanted to show that a people's revolution could only worsen a country situation it was also a clear warning to his own country will achieve the premier i'm going to see a. pollutant whose empire borders on ukraine wants to prevent ukraine moving closer to europe. yes they're just about. we don't have to study it and then europe is going to say you if this state joined the west and became a member of the e.u. and nato 1st of all it meant that nato troops would be stationed all along this long border of its allies furthermore it was obvious that of crimea belongs to

ukraine it was no longer russia's most important naval base. they say that instead we could have the american 60 at least for example coming to savannah the guns can flow to tug. boat in cold a midnight meeting and decided that crimea should once again a long term russia. you know people it was such a lympics was still going on or they had just ended the world was distracted and so russia clearly had plans on the books to take back crimea they didn't invent them it wasn't an impulsive move if you like. moscow acted quickly just 3 weeks after the ukrainian president's overthrow crimea declared its independence the enix ation of the strategic black sea pinin select quickly followed sunday's hastily called referendum in which its residents overwhelmingly back breaking from ukraine and joining russia. was sears' activist i would like to congratulate only

citizens of russia crimea and sebastopol on this significant event here to share soviet sometimes for americans i try to explain that it would be as if by an accident of history. the u.s. lost part of south florida but not just south florida orlando disney and if by chance the opportunity arose for a president to grab it back what would people say that it was a violation of international law or disney is ours and that's what you hear in russia the cry goes up cream crimea is ours. the united states and the european union reacted by imposing economic sanctions on russia. sanctions have arrived as the new way of conflict between countries because it's perceived as being inexpensive it's something that's politically satisfying there's an entire class of new sanctions experts and they offer their

services so the sovereign and the congress and the president they're all very interested in having the services. at the nuclear security summit in the hague in march 24th teen barack obama attacked the russian president again. russia is a regional power. that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not of the strength but out of wheels. obama's derision only serve to encourage poaching to advance further into ukraine. tensions rose in april as fighting erupted between pro russian and pro-government forces in the east ukrainian donbass region.

has said it's so many times russia and ukraine are one nation they belong together one people one empire or one leader. of. russian policy on ukraine is viewed as very fundamental to russian national identity when you hear russians officials we media ordinary people talking all the time about my ukrainian grandmother my summers in ukraine ukraine is my left arm my right arm whatever right so deep feeling of posters to ukraine as if he also understood what ukraine meant to russia donald trump chipped in. russia is like i mean they're really hot stuff. and now you have people in the ukraine who know set up or not but it can all be said but russia i mean what he's done for russia is really amazing. trumps praise for putin fell on deaf ears.

religion of money and the clean of his love for trump ran for the presidency no one saw him as particularly influential let alone as a person to watch out for politically he make up the rules that was needed. as a penalty for the ongoing fighting in ukraine the u.s. and europe impose new sanctions on the russian finance energy and defense sectors in september 24th team. put in retaliated for him the u.s. was the real troublemaker. mostly because brutalist the notion of book and you might think the united states special position and leadership was really a blessing for us all that well let me tell you this was not the case isco us instead of solving conflicts it led to there is collation and the spread of chaos.

instead of democracy support for g.b. as groups was growing from neo fascists to radical islamists let me ask you critic of. provocation from moscow was nothing new for the west. of us here of only diplomats each after annex in the crimea and the events in east ukraine russia wasn't total's diplomatic isolation. was virtually ignored at the g 20 meeting in australia when you played you he left it early. put in needed a new front to demonstrate russian strikes he found it in syria russia has always had strong relations with the syrian government sold weapons to the syrian government over many years often on credit and after a while that credit would magically be forgiven. the civil war in syria had been raging for 5 years in its fight against the insurgents president

bashar al assad's army had laid waste to in time cities. amid the chaos the so-called islamic state of seized control of great swathes of eastern syria. putin did not want to see another arab dictator toppled he decided to intervene. saves abbas had asked for the door problem and you buy with russia on the other side it wasn't about supporting him personally or sitting up the cup the problem was keeping the syrian state you going. what is u.s. and european intervention in other states internal affairs ever achieved e.u. battle with this excuse of teaching you about democracy in your way of life and we've been so when you mock right you know which movies but i've been a. only chaos and collapse which. by the make of this with us is

applies to afghanistan iraq and libya. and now in syria russia was saying stuff like that that's enough the stuff which. on the 30th of september 25th in russia it's ass strikes officially they were targeting is not a terror militia. putin's american champion gave it his full backing on american television trump endorsed putin's intervention in syria and said no one should get in russia's way against the islamic state. yet trump was alone with his message of support the u.s. and its allies demanded that the russian astronauts start their missiles what was so hitting innocent people. were russians when we wage war against that

and when we wage war we want to win and we do when they see that even if only 15 or 20 percent of our bombs hit their targets and they still in their targets of. russian military support change the situation in syria dramatically in favor of the assad regime. the international community could no longer ignore him move the solicitously to primaries he he needed a breakthrough an opportunity to return to the world stage he wanted to regain his place at the table with the other players misses of cements than it russian intervention in syria was his ticket was able to keep the can believe that they went in there they started the bombing campaign and they really forced the u.s. to talk to them and ever since then you know they're ready russian and american military isn't being engaged in de confliction talks on a daily basis. at the same time donald trump was

applying to u.s. presidents he once again. had already launched his election campaign in june 25th jane. i am a facially running. for president of the united states. and we are going to make our country great again could someone young to trump was a leader you do at this time trump was already leading the race for the republican candidacy and also that is what people were starting to take him seriously much less use the city used so of course they also started following his comments about russia not sure that this needs. trump's attempts to curry favor with the russian president finally paid off in december 25th to 10 mentioned donald trump in public for the 1st time.

is a very striking in no doubt very talented men he appears to be the great favorite in the presidential contest of. trump was happy to accept the price. he came out of nowhere 2 days ago and they said trump is brilliant he's great he's the leader he's the leader on the party and he said nice things i didn't know i've never met him so i didn't know and he said nice things all of a sudden i'm hearing things like oh isn't it terrible the food the saying that it's not terrible that's good just like a good thing not a bad thing he can't stand obama obama can't stand him they're always fighting wouldn't it be nice if we could get along like we have done. so i just put what begins in late 2015 is the sort of mutual flirtation if not a love affair with. trump having praised who. and putin now seeing the

possibility that trump could play in this election and praising trump and somebody who could be presidential. but i showed you there's something i find important and can only approve of i see nothing wrong with it on the contrary but mr trump said he would be willing to restore russian american relations he's good what's bad about lax we all want bass you the money you don't you start using it as escape. from the russian perspective but it was clear whom to support in the election which in the star wars putin spoke favorably quite carefully about tromp. he said it was good but didn't say he thought trump was great or anything like that he was much more reserved. on the 22nd of july 2015 became the official republican presidential candidate i am asking

for your support enough so that i can be your champion in the white house and i will be your champion. nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i love and can fix it. presented himself as putin's west and kindred spirit swimmer her child was for most but. when to do his character has upbringing which and for which he didn't just like putin as a politician. but also as a person with a personality similar to his own with strength trust consistency and enormous resilience it go aside as a just because just like trump himself of course some throw. a few days later trump appeared before the press the question came up again what he recognized crimea as russian territory and he became president. lift the sanctions what we're looking at

what we're looking at. his comments contradicted both the u.s. government and nato policy both wanted to keep sanctions in place until russia returned crimea to ukraine. but trump saw nato chiefly as a competitor to the u.s. . trump begins to test enormous skepticism and doubt on the nato alliance his point being that nato like everything else he's ever done should be transactional. how much the united states is paying versus how much other allies are contributing should be the determining factor rather than the idea of collective security that has been the bedrock of the alliance since its founding. but i'm things i'm saying he's the boss of good it not the trump is an isolationist of his he says nato is sucking away american resources he believes this understands

nothing about foreign policy nor does he wish to make you wish and i'm sure that from vladimir point putin's point of view this is music to resist. in july 26th and every clinton made us history as the 1st female presidential candidate of a major party. in seoul my friends it is with humility determination and found i was confident in america's promise delphi itself was. in the same month share cameras to russia of interfering in the presidential elections russian hackers threat managed to have stolen and published e-mails from the democratic national committee their aim was to sow seeds of discord in her party to benefit donald trump did the stunts them god knows. that sure in 2016

peson set out to create chaos in the united states sigmas to say he could say to the russians at home that was the letter is this this democracy is a cocaine mess what purpose would it have the democrats have splashed. trump was very enthusiastic encouraged because to find even. if russia or china or any other country has those e-mails i mean to be honest with you i'd love to see russia if you're listening i hope you're able to find the 30000 e-mails that are missing. tonight all the accusations and said russia had not interfered with the us elections and that the scandal surrounding the alleged stolen e-mails was fake

still it's a secure israel knew. there was the will have been given to the most important thing was the content which the public now knows about but yeah that's the only thing that matters not who stole it they will do it is do you know what the media consumption i always say to americans do you actually realize that we totally control the us right here with our hackers control everything but the church of course that's what other nonsense you know group or my point of view the most stupid thing is they use this excuse to oppose trump's domestic policies. you've seen on the stuff the left. on november the 9th 2016 something that very few people had thought possible happen to. carry clinton lost the presidential election this is nothing outcome we wanted we worked so hard for and i'm sorry we did not win this election for the values we share in the vision

leave all for our country. a historic election night was the winner was damo trump. i pledge to every citizen of. that i will be president for all americans and this is so important. to me. i am. there was applause from moscow today. so this is not only the victory for the americans who defended their democracy against the liberal love of those lives you know this is this is the victory that american people brought the whole world the reality is a great number of russians felt vindicated they felt that something right had happened now justice will be done and russia's grievances will be respected by a new american president. oh. sure the cuban still at

the end of the day trump stands for protectionism in the economy and for greater u.s. sovereignty he doesn't want any migrants in the country for instance to go to his way of thinking it was much closer to putin is. so was the outgoing president barack obama now history not quite he still had one card to play . in december his government expelled 35 russian citizens in retaliation for moscow's alleged interference is in the actions bought there was no reaction from putin yet. we only react when we can benefit obama's presidency was more or less over why should we have wasted our political capital i think because even in 2014 or 2015 we can no longer do a lot since because all hootin signaled that moscow was waiting for the arrival of

president trump in the white house and would solve the problems with them putin didn't want to start their relationship with president trump on this sour note and instead dissent trumped this positive message trump responded and said let him put it was very smart in in. retaliating but. even defended the newly elected president even giving a surprising answer to questions about rumors that russia had compromising material on trump including images with prostitutes during his visit to moscow in 2013. just the normal stuff if anything the result i can hardly imagine that he went into a hotel to meet girls with low sense of social responsibility that. i don't you even if they are of course the best in the world. is that there's the

question of the people who fake pictures of the kinds now circulating of the elected us president to use them in a political battle are worse than prostitutes. and you they have absolutely no moral standards. really for the issue. on january the 20th 2017 trunk was sworn in for me as the 45th president of the united states of america are . on trial there's always swear that i will faithfully execute that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states the authors president of the united states so help me god so help me god congratulations with the crowd. with the relationship with moscow now be rebooted the. ideas of the.

team was entertaining the hope that he could create a different kind of relationship with the usa to the previous one was composed which meant gradually rebuilding the world to fit his own rules and turning russia back into a superpower trump would make a deal on how the rest of the world would live just a minute. but moscow's hopes of a fresh beginning with washington was soon dashed. past of all by nikki haley trump's new ambassador to the united nations. paley's 1st appearance in february 27th teen mocked a tougher stance i consider it unfortunate that the occasion of my 1st appearance here is one in which i must condemn the aggressive actions of russia the dire situation in eastern ukraine is one that demands clear and strong condemnation of russian actions. contrary to all of trump's previous comments ambassador haley

confirmed that u.s. sanctions would remain in place until russia withdrew from crimea. the u.s. . the government's anti russian tack continued. in march f.b.i. director james comey confirmed that his agency would conduct an official investigation into the russian government's alleged interference in the 2016 us election campaign. and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. in april un ambassador haley once again condemned russia's complicity with the syrian assad regime this

time citing a poison gas attack yesterday morning. we awoke to pictures to children foaming at the now suffering convulsions being terry in the arms of desperate things. the truth is that assad russia and iran have no interest in peace when the united nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action. 3 days later u.s. missiles hit the syrian military apple watch where the poison gas attack was and

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