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If he's insisting on European nations shouldering more of the defence burden and not looking to the United States to guarantee Europe's security, in my book that's a good thing. It's long overdue,
he said
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election as president of the United States of America."
Putin said on Thursday
His behaviour at the moment of an attempt on his life left an impression on me. He turned out to be a brave man."
Putin saidIt would be more than enough if he focused on helping the US – the American economy and social sphere. This would mean that he would shift from confrontation with Russia to constructive and pragmatic relations,
Gambashidze said
In Russia, those who are smarter think that he’s just as much of a figurehead as the other presidents and the American system of power won’t let him do what he wants,
said Katherine, a clinician in St PetersburgIn my opinion, it is definitely too early to rejoice,
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Trump has one quality that is useful for us: As a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers-on – on idiotic allies, on stupid charity projects and on gluttonous international organisations,
hawkish former President Dmitry Medvedev wrote on TelegramWe don’t yet know whom Trump will put in charge of foreign policy,
warned Ilya Budraitskis, a Russian historian, social scientist and now a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.jpg)
Once [in the Oval Office], statements can sometimes take on a different tone. That’s why we say we are carefully analysing everything, monitoring everything, and we will draw conclusions from specific words and concrete actions,
Peskov saidMany people say that Trump is a pro-Russian president or even ‘a friend of Putin’,
Gambashidze told Al JazeeraBut, of course, no one expects Trump to abandon foreign policy issues,
Malinin told Al JazeeraThere will be less support for Ukraine, and that sucks,
Moscow-based Anya B saidLet’s not forget that we are talking about an unfriendly country, which is both directly and indirectly involved in the war against our state,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday morningI don’t really care what happens over there, so long as our war is over,
she saidTrump will force us to stop the war on the condition that Russia gets everything it had occupied,
he said referring to the Republican’s obscure plan that lacks details and evidenceWith Trump … we’re not going to win the war,
the bearded chiropractor told Al JazeeraWill he try to go down in history not with the failed Afghanistan [war], not with the incoherent aid to Ukraine, but with something way more substantial for America
Romanenko asked rhetoricallyMaybe Trump will stop this meat grinder, otherwise we risk losing people and the war,
Oleksandr said, referring to the horrendous losses of manpower and the draconian campaign to forcibly conscript men of fighting ageThe US aid is ineffective, there’s objectively too little of it,
Nikolay Mitrokhin of Germany’s Bremen University told Al JazeeraHe promises one thing and does another,
Lieutenant-General Ihor Romanenko told Al Jazeera