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they. were working together. we will begin the urgent task of rebuilding our nation and renewing the american dream. november the 9th 26 stage and donald trump has just been elected as the new president of the united states and every clinton the favorite at last she could gradually costs about us. for our tree. in moscow the election result was also being celebrated. so there was still does that you we are pleased that the best can do this is one but we'll let grandma hillary have a rest bob figured it was god the guy. let us look up at our shoes see the store we with that filled me. in the state duma

nationalist vladimir zhirinovsky. held a special reception to celebrate trump's victory. with this way forward if there were reports of people popping champagne corks at the times like this will bring i don't know anyone personally but i heard about it well a lot of grandeur is part of the russian national character. putin was one of the 1st to congratulate the surprise winner donald trump. but i see russia wants to completely restore its relationship with the usa. the fact that trump was focusing on the slogan make america great again but he wanted to promote his own country rather than pushing for globalization with them was good news for us russians. chim chim mean it that she would negotiate this that improves. president putin and president trump shook hands on

a new friendship the 1st 2 years of trump's presidency but 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 or whether states destined to remain enemies. like nelson at all. you. know your. read. my hand.

but i never. all right. we're. back to 2016. 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 food and russia. political tensions between russia and the u.s. had been rising amounting even to talk of a new cold war you know of those the politics of the u.s. democrats and president obama had to steer the russian american relationship down a blind alley. the democrats new presidential candidate was putin's arch enemy hillary clinton. they also argue all the bush does the kiddo.

no she even compared him with hitler quite blatantly she said he was just like hitler so it was obvious there will asians would be difficult if she became president. moscow pinned all its hopes on donald trump to revive the relationship between the 2 nations. into swaim submerging trump 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 which in the end that's exactly what he was planning to do. donald trump and flooded me a putin 2 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 us president and the american establishment. you have. i think

that from haitians perspective donald trump was a better prospect to lead the usa than hillary clinton. what are most. new adama's 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 buton had experienced what western betrayal actually meant the expansion of nato into formally communist eastern europe you know it 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 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 will see the missiles while this issue shifts so 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 where was the will of leave year the the situation in libya was dramatic and then get off the theory the head of state was murdered live on camera but what about the comment over through that scene 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 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 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 in the run up to the elections of march 2012 moscow became the epicenter of an unprecedented wave of demonstrations against the government. protest much of this post but i mean we would have got out of the crisis began after the parliamentary elections in early december 27th in the country here she raked in each year what happened where next was what happens elsewhere when citizens realize their votes i'm not being heard correctly they go out on the streets that it would start out in blamed hillary clinton for giving the signal for the protests.

are laughable. 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 so i did so i see a. lot into sided to smash the opposition. and accused us of threatening russia and its traditional values. and that's something of a result of him 2012 i warned my friends from the liberal camps to prepare for the inevitable because we've got it 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 i ask you will we win but i feel a. certain stock takes paid off he was the clear winner of the presidential elections with 64 percent of the votes. because oh sure i leave you open who has shown that his politics are geared towards a traditional values family loyalty to the people at some this and service of the fatherland. these values have always been typical of the russian service class as it used to be called them the. loser because it was a word that i've been nov 2012th president obama let's also be elected his 2nd time. we have fought our way

better and we know it all hearts. 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 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 was it was really an afterthought. but one u.s. citizen was fighting for putin so tension 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 28th trump arrives in moscow flanked by beauty queens and moscow's a city that does glitz really well and trump as we know 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. 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 russian magazine at the time was approached by us are a lot off to write a cover story. here if you missed. 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. 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 their goal or of 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 and 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 in came in 4th place figure that one out

4th place. get putin ignored his advances. in the time. the city average rational not the trump was a money magnetic control who you are a man with a trophy wife issue as to bill towers all over the world for you know more than that. he was a businessman one of many of the pros to business 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 8 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 world 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 loyal president of ukraine was ousted from office booted realized he had to take action the islamist move on which you know quit your p.c. and 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 that the bill 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 there's a strong. we joke that's a this 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 of its allies 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 americans. 6th fleet for example coming to the vast a hole the americans give law to. put in called a midnight meeting i decided that crimea should once again belong to russia. you know people it was such olympics were still going on when they had just ended the world was distracted and so russia clearly had plans on the books to take credit and they didn't invent them it was an impulsive move if you like. moscow acted quickly just 3 weeks after the ukrainian residents overthrow crimea declared its independence the in any case and at 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 but it was i would like to congratulate all the citizens of russia crimea and sebastopol on this

significant event here to shelia separate 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 creamed 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 seen barack obama attacked the russian president again. russia is a regional power. that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength but out of weakness. obama's to rishon only serve to encourage burton to advance further into ukraine. tensions rose in april as fighting erupted between pro russian and pro-government forces in the east ukrainian tong basque region.

has said it's so many times 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 left arm my right arm whatever so deep feeling of closeness 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 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 seen. in retaliated for him the us was the real troublemaker. mostly because brutalist the notion of broke 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 disco it instead of solving conflicts it led to there is collation and the spread of chaos

instead of democracy support for g.b.'s groups was growing from neo fascists to radical islamists used to critical. provocation from moscow was nothing new for the west. as always she fully deployment after an x. in the crimea and the events in east ukraine russia was in total diplomatic isolation. was virtually ignored at the g 20 meeting in australia when you look like you he left it early to the solution. putin 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. for 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 entice it is. 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. save us from the door problem and by which russia all assad it wasn't about supporting him personally or siddique up the cause the problem was keeping the syrian state 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 weeping and so when you mock rats you know which movies but i've you know. only chaos and collapse when. you're asked by the mates of this with us is applies to

afghanistan iraq and libya you know it that's aids and now in syria russia was saying stop it that's enough that's tough it's. on the 30th of september 2015 russia its ass strikes officially they were targeting islamic terror militia. putin's american champion gave it his full backing on american television trump indorsed 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 trikes stop their missiles what was so hitting innocent people. were russians when we wage war because that's

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 that they still and they're 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 the civil suit the coup 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 mistresses of cements the news russian intervention in syria was his ticket will they keep him to humiliate them 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 his election campaign in june 25th dean. imo say scheuer. the president of the united states think we are going to make our country great again could someone who was a really good at this time trump was already leading the race for the republican candidates they may not so that is what people were starting to take him seriously much less use the city use and so of course they also started following his comments about russia. 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 a 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 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 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 we have. so i just put what begins in late 25th is the sort of mutual flirtation it's not a love affair with. trump having praised putin 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 this something i find important and can only approval from. i see nothing wrong with it on the contrary mr trump said he would be willing to restore russian american relations he's going what's bad about last week we all want past few the body don't you. from the russian perspective but it was clear whom does the poor in the election which mr putin spoke favorably quite carefully about tropical that. 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.

3 years supporting us so that i can be your champion in the white house and i will be your champ. nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i go alone can fix it. presented himself as putin's weston kindred spirit swim for a child which for most but. when to do his character and his upbringing which of 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 it just was just like trump himself of course some throw . 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. lift the

sanctions what we're looking at. his comments contradicted both u.s. government and nato policy both wanted to keep sanctions in place until russia. returned crimea to ukraine. but trump saw nato chief as a competitor to the u.s. . trump regions to test enormous step this isn't down 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. ramblings and said he's the boss of good it not that the trouble is an isolationist it is he says nato is sucking away american resources he believes that 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 july 26th kerry clinton made us history as the 1st female presidential candidate of a major party. and so well my friends it is where humility determination and boundless confidence in america's promise of the other guy it said was. in the same month share cameras to russia of interfering in the presidential elections russian hackers were alleged 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 the. bagshaw in 2016 poussin set out

to create chaos in the united states sigmas lee so he could say to the russians at home look at this this democracy is a complete mess. the democrats have split us. 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.

people it's a secure israel knew. there was the will have been given that she 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 that will do it is do you know what the media can something about i always say to americans do you actually realize that we totally control the us 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 if they use this excuse to oppose trump's domestic policies. you see you know the scope of the of the. on november the 9th 2016 something that very few people had thought possible happen to. carry clinton lost the presidential election this is not going outcome we want it we worked so hard for her and i'm sorry even now when this election for the values we share in the

vision leave all for our country. historic election night was the winner was trump. i pledge to every citizen of. that i will be president for all americans and this is so important. to me. 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 the american people brought to 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 too 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 interferences 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

the president trapped 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 lot of important was very smart in in no. retaliating but. even defended the newly elected president even giving us surprising answer to questions about rumors that russia had compromising material on trump including images with prostitutes during his visit to moscow in 2013. 35th a result of a fish i can hardly imagine that he went into a hotel to meet girls with low his sense of social responsibility that then. again you even if they are of course the best in the world. that goes with 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 who they have absolutely no moral standards. really for the regime. on january the 20th 2017 trunk was sworn in for me as the 45th president of the united states of america. do solemnly 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 with my dears 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 dash. past of all by mickey haley trump's new ambassador to the united nations'. first appearance in february 27th teen 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 haiti 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 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 and

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