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The message is, if you want a deal, you’re going to crawl on your knees for it,
says Nina Khrushcheva, an authority on Russian politics and foreign affairs at the New School
The U.S. needs to pack up its stuff and get back to where it was in 1997.”
As the lead Russian envoy put it at the time
I hope we get the strategy right,
Pompeo told TIME during a visit to Kyiv in SeptemberThere’s no pressure on him to negotiate,
says a former senior U.S. official who maintains high-level contacts in both Washington and MoscowIt 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 PetersburgMany people say that Trump is a pro-Russian president or even ‘a friend of Putin’,
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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 TelegramIn my opinion, it is definitely too early to rejoice,
Malinin saidWe 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 saidBut, 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 saidI don’t really care what happens over there, so long as our war is over,
she saidTrump started talking about that the United States is ill, and that American society should solve those problems,
Zakharova said
Ordinary Americans are tired of the unprecedented lies, incompetence, and malice of the Biden administration,
Dmitriev saidThings for sure won’t get easier with Trump’s victory,
Alexander Kots, a defense blogger, wrote on TelegramIt’s not worth being so openly happy about Trump’s presidency,
the popular channel Voenny Osvedomitel postedTrump’s previous term ended with a record amount of anti-Russian sanctions, and practically zero dialogue,
Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia’s lower house of parliament, told the state news agency TASS on WednesdayTrump has one useful quality for us,
Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and the deputy chair of Russia’s security council, wrote on social media