Putin says Trump’s calls to increase nuclear arms are “nothing new”

This year’s rendition of the annually and famously long newser ran relatively brief; Putin didn’t speak for four hours this time (slacker).

A Kremlin spokesperson criticized the poor relationship with the Obama administration in an interview Wednesday.

Putin made clear that the military build-up of the past few years, on which Russian Federation has spent large amounts of its shrinking budget, is slated to continue – but that it has already had results. He also noted relations between Russian Federation and Ukraine would probably be improved by a bridge that is under construction to connect Russian Federation and Crimea.

Trump’s comments on the US nuclear arsenal came after he met on Wednesday afternoon with half a dozen top military officers at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort where he’s staying for the holidays.

“We did not initiate the worsening of our ties with the EU. I don’t see it changing for this one”, Weinstein said then.

“We can only fight this threat efficiently if we pool our efforts together”, he said.

On NBC’s “Today“, Spicer said, “We’re not going to sit back and watch other nations threaten our safety”. While President Barack Obama has proposed a multibillion-dollar plan to modernize the maturing US nuclear triad, no mainstream voices are arguing to increase the numbers of nuclear weapons beyond the 4,500 active warheads the USA now possesses.

While Russia is upgrading its nuclear capabilities, he denied that doing so constitutes an arms race. The Friday night tweet sparked cries of alarm from former US officials and other Trump critics on social media.

Putin slammed the Democrats for seeking to blame others for the results of the election while praising President-elect Donald Trump during his year-end news conference.

He also noted that the USA has been modernizing its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

Trump’s transition team said late on Friday that the president-elect received the letter from Putin urging him to act “in a constructive and pragmatic manner” to “restore the framework of bilateral cooperation”.

In his annual news conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin shrugged off United States President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet about how the U.S.

“Given that Trump’s views Putin very favorably – apparently it’s reciprocal – there is a call for Congressional investigation of Russian interference into the election, it’s a little bit unusual that Trump seems to have possibly fulfilled this fantasy of working with Russia as a nuclear partner against a third target, which so far has been unnamed”, Kendzior said. To be sure, Trump’s equivocal statements about Putin lend some superficial plausibility to this idea-if you’re six years old. “Instead, people are shouting about who were the hackers. Maybe they were lying on the sofa or the bed”, he shrugged – but added that the hacks “showed the truth”.

In just 140 characters, Donald Trump could have reignited an global nuclear arms race on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.

On Dec. 22, the day before the resolution was adopted, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country will upgrade its nuclear force to counter the United States’ missile defense program.

The United States “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes”, Trump had said.

Adding to the tension is Trump’s cavalier dismissal of nuclear proliferation concerns – he reportedly told MSNBC on Friday, “let it be an arms race”. “There is nothing new” to the comments, Putin told the press.