Obama team trying to damage ties with Russian Federation

He said he wouldn’t advise those protesting Trump’s election to keep silent. Yet he insisted the US mustnt gloss over deep disagreements over Syria, Ukraine and basic democratic values.

The demonstration was organized by Artyom Mainas, a 27-year-old blogger in Obninsk, a nuclear-research center some 60 miles south of Moscow.

Long before Trump’s election on November 8, Putin had made it clear that his government was willing to work with the next United States president regardless of the vote’s outcome.

Obamas closest partner on the world stage, Merkel has been instrumental in Obamas efforts to coordinate USA and European approaches toward Russian Federation, as well as other conflicts including the Syria crisis and the fight against the Islamic State group. Meanwhile, Moscow has conducted nationwide civil defense drills.

Under Obama’s presidency, Russian Federation has illegally annexed Ukrainian Crimea, slaughtered thousands of civilians to prop up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, and surreptitiously waged war against the Ukrainian government in the Donbass region.

“Our goal is to effectively neutralize any military threats to Russia’s security, including those of the [NATO] strategic anti-ballistic missile defense system, the prompt global strike concept and information warfare”, Putin told the Russian military.

Vladimir Putin’s powerful super weapon travels so fast it can soar from Russian military bases in Kaliningrad to Britain in just 13 minutes, according to reports.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and one of the chamber’s most experienced foreign policy hands, said the attempt by a foreign country to interfere with the U.S. voting process needs better understanding and a vigorous response.

“We will do all necessary to ensure a strategic balance”, Putin said.

Trump spoke favorably of Putin during the presidential campaign, but he outlined few specifics as to how he would go about recalibrating ties with Russian Federation that had become badly frayed during Barack Obama’s presidency.

“I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria”.

Russia, Graham said, is a “bad actor”.

“The Americans are among. our most important partners and we want to continue this partnership economically, politically and through shared values”, Peter Tauber, the general secretary of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Party, told reporters in Berlin, ahead of Obama’s visit.