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nationalist bloody mears aronofsky held a special reception to celebrate trump's victory. last. also as well for you there were reports of people popping champagne corks at the time. i don't know anyone personally but i heard about it well a lot of grandeur is part of the russian national character. without a man putin was one of the 1st to congratulate the surprise winner donald trump. no i see it 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 that he approves. president putin and president trump shook hands on

a new friendship but the 1st 2 years of trump's presidency well overshadowed by the so-called russian a fast the charge was conspiracy against the united states did the 2 men illegally collude i never worked for roger 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. this state destined to remain enemies. like. oh you're. not annoying our friends now. my

enemy. but i never worked. back to 2016. in the run up to the us 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 food and russia. political tensions between russia and the us had been rising amounting even to talk of a new cold war. goes all the politics of us democrats and president obama had to steer the russian american relationship down a blind alley to give to the democrats new presidential candidate most putin's arch enemy hillary clinton. they also argue opposed to the kyoto.

restlessly 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 swain's tromp expressed himself quite differently he said he would find a common language with putin very doable that was possible to work together with putin shores putin and that's exactly what he was planning to do. donald trump and florida may putin to man with 2 common enemies hillary clinton and barack obama. despite having different reasons trump and putin both shared a feeling of being disparaged by the outgoing u.s. president and the american establishment.

i think that from haitians perspective donald trump was a better prospect to lead the usa than hillary clinton will what are most person knew of his position and had tried to outperform him several times in world politics without success. are by when you inching bone chilling. mistrust of the u.s. 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 is now in the baltic states lithuania latvia estonia are all members of nato too they share borders with russia. which

makes the should putin or anyone else trust a word the west says i don't know that 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. moved to a missile dollars issue shadiest of. the always had the feeling that things were moving in the wrong direction that nothing was going the way it should. be the key change was the arab spring there was the will. leave year the situation in libya was dramatic and then get our faith the head of state was murdered live on camera but what came out over the years through that seen most of it putin 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 levon 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. why. did we fake the moon landing. snap in the face that donald trump wouldn't quickly forget is showpiece 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 too was waiting for the moment to take revenge on his american counterpart but 1st he had to win an election himself. yet and the run up to the elections of march $22.00 ounce moscow became the epicenter of an unprecedented wave of demonstrations against the government. just much in this post but a lot we would have kept out of party process began after the parliamentary elections in early december 27th in the country here to be raked. each year would have been were next was what happens elsewhere when citizens realize there is that some not being heard correctly they go out on the streets that it would start hootin blamed hillary clinton for giving the signal for the protests.

and after they look at the same time she was secretary of state with the us 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 so i did so i see if. it interests. idea to smash the opposition and accuse us of threatening russia and its traditional values. not some have a result that was in 2012 i warned my friends from the liberal camps to prepare for the inevitable by the sort of guys they would have to take sides either us i mean russia or the west it is up to.

everyone who has said yes to a strong russia. to expand off he was the clear winner of the presidential elections with 60 percent of the votes. by leach hootin has shown that his politics are geared towards traditional values and family loyalty to the people and service of the fatherland. symbolists these values have always been typical of the russian service class as it used to be called. loser because it was over the rule november 2012th president obama must also be elected his 2nd time. we have fought always

bet and we know it all hurts but 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 on domestic affairs . russia was and was really an afterthought. but one u.s. citizen was fine 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. could be his new best friend. he was certain that putin would attempt the contest. in november 23rd team trump arrives in moscow flanked by beauty queens. of 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. gleams gold the more exciting it is to have. it's an amazing location and moscow all of russia is going wild over it so we're very happy the miss universe pageant is just setting records. for russian billionaire. was hosting the event trump had met him just 5 months previously in las vegas.

mikhail fight off editor in chief of g.q. russia magazine at the time i was approached by honest to write a cover story. here if you asked. my compromise was that we're not going to write anything about you know this little whore would 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 off's 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. 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 z. 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 or they said fanciers slid no she didn't know tom from the start of the 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 girls to businessman i don't think putin perceived him any differently at this point which incremental to cause them all. but giving up was not an option for donald trump he was determined to find a way ticket to tim's attention but the russian president had more important plans he wanted to get his country back on the welt stage 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 jana coverage

the moscow knowing all president of ukraine was ousted from office and realized he had to take action is the new smoke on which you. president since he couldn't help president young a college 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 the blue achievement premium got a. potent whose empire borders on ukraine wants to prevent ukraine moving closer to europe. yes they're just around. we don't have to stand it and then europe is going to say 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. furthermore it was obvious that of crimea belongs to ukraine it was no

longer russia's most important naval base. there instead we could have the american 6th fleet for example coming to survive to. give law to. put in coal to midnight meeting and decided that crimea should once again belong to 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 was an impulsive move if you like. moscow acted quickly just 3 weeks after the ukrainian president's overthrow crimea declared its independence. the annexation of the strategic black sea pinin select quickly followed sunday's hastily called referendum in which its residents overwhelmingly backed breaking from ukraine and joining russia as. well as sears' it is i would like to

congratulate all the citizens of russia crimea and sebastopol on the significant event here to shelia soviet sometimes for americans i try to explain that it would be as if by an accident of history the us 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 as 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 to the sovereign and the congress and the president they're all very interested in having these 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 on the strength but out of workers. obama's derision only served to encourage her chain 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.

put your mirror. has said it's so many times you russia and ukraine are one nation they belong together one people one empire or one leader. 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 last or my right arm whatever 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 set up but russia i mean what he's done for russia is really amazing. trumps praise for putin

fell on deaf ears. bleached the chromebook. is the clean you feel for trump ran for the presidency no one saw him as particularly influential let alone as a person to watch out for politically need to make up the rules the rules 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. in retaliated for him the us was the real troublemaker. mostly because brutalist the going to start of only 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 is going instead of solving conflicts it led to the escalation and the spread of chaos

instead of democracy support for juvie as groups was growing from neo fascists to radical islamists because of. provocation from moscow was nothing new for the west. only deployment he said after an x. in the crimea and the events in east ukraine or russia wasn't totals of diplomatic isolation putin was virtually ignored at the g 20 meeting in australia when you played you he left it early. voting needed a new front to demonstrate russian strength 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. but. the civil war in

syria had been raging for 5 years in its fight against the insurgents president bashar al assad. had laid waste to in times cities. amid the chaos the so-called islamic state and seized control of great swathes of eastern syria. putin did not want to see another arab dictator toppled he decided to intervene. because a it's a bus and also the door problem and if by which flash are all assad it wasn't about supporting him personally or siddique of the cause the problem was keeping the syrian state going. what is u.s. and european intervention in other states internal affairs he ever achieved e.u. battle with this excuse of teaching you about democracy in your way of life would be nice when you mock right you know which movies but i've you know. only chaos and

collapse. by the make of this with us this applies to afghanistan iraq and libya at the cafe and now in syria russia was saying stop i think that's enough the stuff which. on the 30th of september 2015 russia its ass strikes officially they were targeting islamic terror militia. bruton'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 ass tried stop their missiles were also hitting innocent people with the russians when we wage war against it

and when we wage war we want to win and we do when they say that even if only 15 or 20 percent of our bombs hit their targets that 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 putin's moves in the middle of. the primaries 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 mrs to miss the news russian intervention in syria was his ticket. the commuter 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 rare russian and american military said been engaged in de confliction talks on a daily basis. at the same time donald trump was

eyeing the u.s. presidency once again. he had already launched a selection campaign in june 25th dean. i am a say surely right. the president of the united states think we are going to make our country great again could someone him go to rome at this time trump was already leading the race for the republican candidates see i mean not so that is what people were starting to take him seriously and he used them so of course they also started following his comments about russia that shouldn't. 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.

he's a very striking in no doubt very talented man 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 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 that 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 with every. one just with what begins in the late 2015 is the sort of mutual flirtation if not a love affair with. trump having praised putin and putin now seeing the

possibility that trump could play me in this election and praising trump and somebody who could be presidential. but i showed you this something i find important and can only approval for. 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 last week we all want bass you the body you don't you. visited us he escaped. from the russian perspective but it was clear whom to support in the election which mr putin spoke favorably quite carefully about triumph. 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 already can fix it. presented himself as putin's west and kindred spirit. was for most but. when to do his character and his 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 and that this is just bush just like trump himself of course on through. a few days later trump appeared before the press the question came up again would he recognize crimea as russian territory when he became president or

lift the sanctions what we're looking at what with. 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. . regions 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. trappings and said 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 yet he 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 his ears. in general i 2016 hillary clinton made us history as the 1st female presidential candidate of a major party. and so my friends it is with humility determination and boundless confidence in america's promise that time itself was. in the same month she accused russia of interfering in the presidential elections russian hackers threat managed to have stolen and published e-mails from the democratic national committee that aim was to sow seeds of discord in her party to benefit

donald trump judicious thoughts from god do. that share in 2016 person set out to create chaos in the united states signals to so he could say to the russians at home that was the letter is this this democracy is a complete mess what purpose why didn't the democrats plus. 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. in tonight's 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 me yeah that's the only thing that matters not who stole it from the walkthrough it is the oh yeah what the media consumption i always say to americans do you actually realize that we totally control the us are you sure our hackers control everything but it's a bit 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 could see that 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 not the 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

leidholdt. for our country. a historic election night was. the winner was donald trump. i pledge to every citizen. that i will be president for all americans and this is so important to me. was. there was applause from moscow today. so this is not only the victory for the americans who defended their democracy against the liberal globalist alliance you know this is this is the victory that american people brought the whole world the reality is that 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 store 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 on to his way of thinking it was much closer to putin this was a new country. 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 interferences in the elections but 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 still. because all hootin signaled that moscow was waiting for the arrival of

president trump in the white house and was solved. problems with them didn't want to start their relationship with president trump on this sour note and instead dissent trumped this positive message responded and said it was very smart in in not 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. which i can hardly imagine that he went into a hotel to meet girls with a sense of social responsibility. again you even if they are of course the best in the world. that goes to flesh

a few. people who fake pictures of the kinds now circulating of the elected us presidents to use them in a political battle are worse than prostitutes. and you they have absolutely no moral standards. really for the british. on january the 20th 2017. was sworn in for me as the 45th president of the united states of america are. aware that i will faithfully execute that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states the authors of 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.

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. haley's 1st appearance in february 27th team marked the toughest stops 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 us government's anti russian tac 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 u.s. 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 regime this time

citing a poison gas attack yesterday morning. we're well to pictures to children foaming at the mouth 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

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