November 14, 2016
By Elise Viebeck, Jerry Markon and Karen DeYoung
President-elect Donald Trump (click here) and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in a telephone conversation Monday that relations between their countries were “unsatisfactory” and vowed to work together to improve them, the Kremlin said in a statement....
If the Trump Organization has broke laws with sanctions with Russia and Cuba, the charges should be filed soon or not at all. This is a complete disruption of international law and order. The Russian sanctions were ordered because Russia blatantly moved against an international treaty with Ukraine, Germany, the USA and Russia. The reason for the treaty was to allow the orderly and peaceful removal of nuclear weapons accumulated by the USSR housed in Ukraine.
Trumps chummy relationship with Russia is a threat to the global security.
Now. Americans should be afraid. Very afraid.
Why was Comey so intent on destroying the election of Hillary Clinton? And I suppose Russia and the USA will usher in a new concept called peace. Russia is going to assign peace between it and the USA while the Russian people are isolated into their own internet and otherwise. There are more questions than there are answers.
November 14, 2016
By Jeffery Burt, James Hitch, Peter Pettibone and Thomas Shillinglaw
There are few higher foreign policy priorities (click here) for the new Trump Administration than addressing the highly disruptive and potentially catastrophic conflict brewing sinisterly in Ukraine. The annexation of Crimea, as well as Russia’s continuing military initiatives in the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region, represent egregious violations of international law. These actions have had a devastating impact on U.S.-Russian relations which have reverted to Cold War levels, undermining all constructive discourse.
Trump’s election campaign promised that, as President, he would initiate an entirely new approach to Russia, and deal with Putin and his inner circle by relying on his negotiating skills honed during his career in business. We believe that now is the time for Trump to take advantage of the opening afforded by his stunning election, and to approach Putin with a game changing proposal to deescalate the Ukrainian crisis, as well as to lay the foundation for a constructive program of reconciliation between the United States and Russia. The alternative — a continuation of the current policy — will only lead to further destabilizing rhetoric, a costly and dangerous arms build-up on both sides, and escalating military confrontations between NATO members and Russia.
