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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:19 AM Nov 2018

Kremlin sees no prospects for better U.S. ties after elections

Source: Reuters



NOVEMBER 7, 2018 / 4:54 AM / UPDATED 5 MINUTES AGO

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it saw no prospects for an improvement in relations between Russia and the United States following the U.S. midterm elections in which the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives.

The House victory will give the Democrats the opportunity to block President Donald Trump’s agenda and open his administration to intense scrutiny, and congressional sources say the Democrats will try to harden U.S. policy towards Moscow.

Trump’s fellow Republicans expanded their majority of the U.S. Senate in the Tuesday vote.

“We can say with a large amount of confidence that of course no bright prospects for normalizing Russian-American relations can be seen on the horizon,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-midterm-kremlin/kremlin-sees-no-prospects-for-better-u-s-ties-after-elections-idUSKCN1NC178?il=0

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Kremlin sees no prospects for better U.S. ties after elections (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
Bwa,hahahaha, watoos Nov 2018 #1
Good! Lonestarblue Nov 2018 #2
Think it's bad now? maxrandb Nov 2018 #3
How kan ve be friends vith Moose and Squirrel always vith de kvestions?!? dogknob Nov 2018 #4
NAHHHHHHHHHH .... nt eppur_se_muova Nov 2018 #5
 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
1. Bwa,hahahaha,
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:23 AM
Nov 2018

No Devin Nunes on the intelligence committee, and Rohrabacher is gone. What has Ghouliani been doing in Russia Vlad?

Lonestarblue

(9,958 posts)
2. Good!
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 10:26 AM
Nov 2018

Putin helps fund much of the disruption and anti-democratic politicians around the world. The U.S. needs to isolate him and stop laundering the money he and his oligarch friends steal from the Russian people.

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