Trump Team Not in Touch With Kremlin, Russian Officials Say

There is a new sheriff in town (Trump) but it's not like this sheriff is in his prime."

Military expert Alexey Anpilogov said

(Trump) says he wants to speak with the Russian president straight away. The Kremlin says Russia is also ready. When two people really want something, good things happen. We anticipate good things."

Political analyst Alexey Naumov said

So far, we have not received any signals from the Americans,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call

Russia is preparing for a war with the West,

German foreign intelligence chief Bruno Kahl said in a November speech

While every president has complained that European countries don’t do enough, there never was a question about American commitment,

said Hodges

Anybody who isn’t worried hasn’t been paying attention,

said Giles

We need to make it very clear to the Kremlin that any attack against a NATO member is going to cost and have consequences,

said Jurkonis, who also teaches politics at Lithuania's Vilnius University

Europe must be prepared for the most extreme military contingencies,

a spokesperson for the bloc told NBC News in an email when asked whether the continent was preparing for a worst case scenario of war with Russia

NATO has to pay more,

Trump said

‘Steroids’ is a good one, but it still produces some muscle. I wouldn’t call this muscle,

Ribakova told CNN

These are loans that the state has compelled banks to extend to largely uncreditworthy, war-related businesses on concessionary terms,

he wrote

The conditions for a crisis are there – but is the trigger?”

he told CNN

The population no longer expects justice from the Kremlin; instead, they expect financial support,

she told CNN

The fact that they are talking about it is a sign of trouble,

he said