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The really worrying fact is that Trump has taken Russia from pariah to prize partner in the time span of just a few days. That comes at a price,
said Brett Bruen, a former foreign policy adviser in the Obama administration
Putin is a war criminal,
Wicker told CNNPresident Trump has built a strong team that is already demonstrating his peace through strength agenda in action,
said Brian Hughes, spokesman for the White House National Security CouncilPutin will not stop at Ukraine,
Darius Jauniškis, director of Lithuania's State Security Department, told ReutersRussia wants to do something,
Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida, on TuesdayThe Kremlin has been normalized in bilateral diplomacy that excludes Ukraine and NATO and they gave up nothing to get that,
he told ReutersWhat we can trust the Russians to do, is to do anything to their advantage, to take temporary steps."
When asked about Trump's comment that he believeIt's certainly not ideal that Ukraine was not in the room, though I believe they'll be at future such meetings,
she said
When the government buys, say, a billion dollars’ worth of tanks, that’s addition to GDP of a billion dollars. Now, these tanks are burnt in Ukrainian fields ... It’s actually equivalent to the government just printing this billion dollars and handing it over to those people who work in the tank factory or their shareholders without producing anything,
Sergei Guriev, the dean of London Business School, said this week
So on paper, it looks like Russia is actually producing a lot of GDP, but a lot of those GDP are soldiers who are killed in Ukraine or wounded in Ukraine with their families getting cash, or weapons producers,
he told a Financial Times podcast
It's very important to understand that U.S. businesses lost around $300 billion from leaving Russia. So there is huge economic toll on many countries from you know what's happening right now, and we believe as a way forward is through solutions,
Dmitriev saidEurope will have to make a contribution towards safeguarding any agreement, and cooperation with the Americans is essential,
he saidWe really see that president Trump and his team is a team of problem solvers, people who have already addressed a number of big challenges very swiftly, very efficiently and very successfully,
Kirill Dmitriev told reporters in Riyadh
This is a follow-up on that initial conversation between Putin and president Trump about perhaps if that first step is even possible, what the interests are, if this can be managed,
state department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters in RiyadhWe agree with president Trump on a ‘peace through strength’ approach,
a European official said after the Paris meeting, speaking on condition of anonymityI’ve been with president Trump, and the policy has always been: You take no options off the table,
he said