Top Kremlin adviser Sergei Glazyev today told Russia’s news service that the election of Donald Trump by the United States may ultimately avert World War III between NATO and the Russian Federation, saying that Trump might symbolize a change in course for the US.
Glazyev said many within the Russian government saw Hillary Clinton as a “symbol of war,” and that the American voters’ rejection of Clinton in favor of Trump showed a rejection of that level of hostility. Russian officials have also praised Trump, saying he appears to have the same foreign policy mindset as Vladimir Putin.
All this talk of embracing Trump, however, may simply reflect Russia’s happiness that Clinton didn’t win, as Clinton campaigned heavily on being hostile toward Russia, accusing Russia of plotting against her campaign, and talking openly about military action in Syria designed to get “military leverage” against Russia.
Since the regime change in Ukraine saw the replacement of a long-time Russian ally with a pro-West government, NATO in general and the US in particular have been stepping up military deployments along Russia’s border in Eastern Europe, with some 300,000 NATO troops deployed in the Baltic states for a battle with Russia.
Clinton was positioning herself as a continuation of that anti-Russia buildup, and more hawkish, which makes it pretty clear that Russia would’ve seen her election as another step toward open warfare.
Ding Dong, the evil witch is dead.
Well, defeated anyway.
LF
Sergei Glazyev is actually one of the most sensible figures in the Russian Federation. A patriot and realist.
Good relations between USA and Russia will be good for USA,good for Russia ,good for the world.The wicked witch is gone.RIPS
A hope we wouldn’t have if Hillary was elected.
Some hope is better than no hope.
All true, but the Russians have also expressed unease that so much is unknown about Trump on subjects in which certainty is highly valued.
They are also uneasy that Trump might trade off foreign policy to the establishment for support on his domestic desires, which are a higher priority for him.
They are right to be concerned. It is all up in the air now. At least it is possible it will come right, which was not possible with Hillary.
This is why I voted for Trump. All those who did should take pride in their vote. If we avoid WWIII, all things are possible. Let us hope that DJT can succeed in the face of neocon opposition and infantile progressive hostility.
Killary would have caused WWIII within her first term.
In the first volley of nukes 100 million Americans would have perished.
Sporatic nukes would have continued to fall upon the U.S. for months.
Nuclear winter would follow. Virtually all life in the northern hemisphere would have perished, including human life.
World wide the human population likely would have been reduced to just a few million, if that.
And, that’s what Trump saved us from, however inadvertently and how innocent he was and may still be regarding the threat of nuclear war.
LF
I believe and hope that there will be tens of millions of people alive in one year from now because the Hillary war machine has been defeated by the good,brave,and wise American people. Thank you from Europe.