Trump’s Russia reset ideas alarming allies, many in US

Couple this with the fact that Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and other key people in the Trump campaign reportedly have extensive business and political ties to Russian Federation, and one has to wonder if the Trump campaign was involved in initiating the hack of the DNC emails or in how and when to use those emails. Of threatening the very underpinnings of America’s relationship with Europe.

October 2013: Trump says Putin is outsmarting the U.S.

Analysts say the Kremlin would welcome a Trump victory in November because the wealthy NY businessman has repeatedly praised Putin, spoken of wanting to get along with Russian Federation, and has said he would consider an alliance with Moscow against Islamic State.

A president can’t just shoot from the hip on major national security and foreign policy issues.Donald Trump this week once again did what he has proven himself so adept at over the a year ago – grabbing the spotlight by saying something so absurd, so unpresidential, the press had no choice but to pay attention.

Trump, however, has expressed his opposition to regime change in Syria and said the USA and Russian Federation should focus on working together to destroy the Islamic State group.

“I would treat Vladimir Putin firmly, but there’s nothing I can think of that I’d rather do than have Russian Federation friendly, as opposed to the way they are right now, so that we can go and knock out ISIS with other people”, Trump said at a news conference. “We never poke our noses into others’ affairs and we really don’t like it when people try to poke their nose into ours”.

Accepting Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea would be a radical departure from USA policy.

Trump’s suggestion that he might abandon NATO’s pledge to automatically defend all member states is also likely to have gone down well in Moscow, where the Western military alliance is cast as an outdated Cold War relic.

“Our team considers them some of the best adversaries out of all the numerous nation-state, criminal and hacktivist-terrorist groups we encounter on a daily basis”, the company said.

USA antipathy to foreign individuals, let alone foreign countries, trying to influence American elections runs so deep that the law prohibits “foreign nationals” (non-citizens who don’t hold green cards) from donating to campaigns or even promising to donate.

“He looks at the world exclusively through the prism of business transactions, talking about allies as if they’re Atlantic City contractors that he can bilk”, said Chollet, who spoke out in favor of Clinton during her Democratic primary campaign against Sen.

I am reminded of former congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who, when he spoke to a gathering at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, offered this advice: If you can say it, don’t write it; if you can nod, don’t say it; and if you can wink, don’t nod. The emails showed DNC staffers actively supporting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton when they were publicly promising to remain neutral during the primary elections between Clinton and rival candidate Sen.

In response to Trump’s remarks on Crimea, Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko said on Thursday: “Mr Trump is not the president of the United States, at least not yet”.

The head of a think tank that advises the Kremlin, Fyodor Lukyanov, said Putin is under no illusion that Erdogan would pull the plug on decades of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation membership, but the rising anti-Americanism in Turkey is providing an opportunity to turn what had been a tense relationship into a deep strategic partnership.

In the 2012 presidential campaign, the dynamic over Russian Federation was switched: Republican nominee Mitt Romney then criticized Obama for being too accommodating toward Russian Federation.

Russian Federation maintains significant diplomatic clout in the world and America depends on its former Cold War foe in various security matters.

“Putin has the luck of the devil”, said Mark Galeotti, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s about handling a very delicate and volatile situation that can go sour very quickly”.

The Russian leader is riding a wave of events that have played into his hands, including Europe’s worst migrant crisis since World War II, which strengthened Putin-friendly parties across the continent on the right and left and helped trigger Britain’s historic June vote to exit the European Union.