Prove we can become friends, US tells Russia

In an apparent eleventh-hour attempt to head off a scandal over secret talks with Russian officials that have led to the resignation of his national security advisor, Donald Trump today accused Russia of taking Crimea by force, using Twitter as his medium.

During a conference call with reporters Friday, a Kremlin spokesperson said Russian Federation had no illusions of grandeur after Trump took over last month.

He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government wanted to keep the war in Ukraine going to win domestic support. But I think Trump believes we can find enough common ground, enough overlap so that we can at least have less warring back and forth with each other than we presently have coming into the Trump administration.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday it was in the interests of both Russia and the United States to restore communications between their respective intelligence agencies.

The meeting was notable because the Russian general is the originator of the “Gerasimov Doctrine”, which lays out a playbook for the “hybrid warfare” that Moscow has been carrying out across Europe and in the US. “But this may be some sort of political and informational action, which was prepared in advance”.

The surveillance operations are being carried out following increasing concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin is using his relationship with the Trump administration to destabilise the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance, according to the sources who spoke to Newsweek on the condition of anonymity. The billboard reads: “Crimea”. Exploiting divisions has always been Russia’s favorite policy toward the West, and now the arsenal of intrigues is enriched by cyberattacks targeting the USA elections, Norwegian national security or the Italian foreign ministry (RBC, February 10).

A CNN report said “high-level advisers” to Trump “were in constant communication during the campaign with Russians known to USA intelligence”.

Voronenkov called former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was toppled by the EuroMaidan Revolution on February 22, 2014, a Kremlin “puppet” who fled to Russia and asked Putin to send Russian troops to Ukraine.

There must be an intensive investigation into Donald Trump and his relationship with Russian Federation. The New York Times recently reported that phone records indicate members of his campaign team “had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election”. “And which does not point to any real facts”, said Dmitry Peskov.

Separately, Moscow may also be anxious about Trump’s impact on its own domestic politics. “I don’t know anything”.

Reports suggest Moscow’s enthusiasm for better relations with the United States has dampened in recent weeks. It is the Russian intervention in US Elections 2016 that has been enormously damaging for the Trump presidency.

Trump came to power talking of wanting cooperative U.S.

The Republican denied Vladimir Putin was testing him – despite Russia’s recent deployment a new cruise missile and a spy vessel being sent to lurk off the USA coast.

“Everyone will say, ‘Oh, it’s so great, it’s so great. But I’m not going to tell you”.

In the same segment of the press conference, he made the observation: ‘I can’t believe I’m saying I’m a politician but I guess that’s what I am now’. But you know what?

‘The greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that’s 30 miles offshore right out of the water.