Russian Officials Welcome Donald Trump's Re-Election

Donald Trump claimed triumph and pledged to "heal" the state Wednesday arsenic helium sealed a melodramatic comeback to powerfulness successful the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike election.

A Trump triumph threatens to origin planetary shockwaves and holds immense value not lone for Americans, but besides for planetary relations — peculiarly with Russia.

U.S.-Russia ties person stood astatine a historical debased successful caller years amid tensions fueled by the Kremlin’s warfare successful Ukraine, sanctions, diplomatic standoffs, and accusations of Moscow’s predetermination meddling. But Trump has agelong expressed admiration for President Vladimir Putin, boasting that helium has a “a precise bully relationship” with the Russian leader.

While Putin has yet to remark connected the results of Tuesday’s predetermination successful the U.S., Kremlin excavation reporters reposted Putin’s congratulations helium sent to Trump successful 2016 pursuing his archetypal statesmanlike win.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the state-run Rossia 24 TV transmission that it was precise important that Trump "started talking astir however America is sick and that the problems of American nine request to beryllium addressed" successful his triumph speech.

"Those who triumph are the ones who unrecorded with emotion for their ain country, not with hatred toward others,” Zakharova besides wrote on Telegram.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has indicated helium volition chopped assistance to Kyiv successful its combat against invading Russian forces.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev referred to that successful a Telegram post, saying: “Trump has 1 prime that's utile to us. He perfectly hates spending wealth connected assorted hangers-on and freeloaders — connected foolish allies, pointless foundation projects and bloated planetary organizations.

“Toxic Banderite Ukraine falls into that aforesaid category. The question is however overmuch Trump volition beryllium made to lend to the war. He's stubborn, but the strategy is stronger,” Medvedev added.

Russian lawman Leonid Slutsky, the caput of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested that determination mightiness beryllium “an opportunity” for relations betwixt Moscow and Washington to amended arsenic “the Republican squad does not mean to support funneling American taxpayers’ wealth into a proxy warfare against Russia.”

“What volition Donald Trump’s caller presidency and the accomplishment of his squad successful the White House mean for U.S.-Russia relations? His erstwhile word ended (as often noted) with a grounds fig of anti-Russian sanctions, and the level of practice had been reduced practically to zero. And not done our fault. Given the entrenched bipartisan statement connected Capitol Hill against Russia, expecting an contiguous thaw oregon swift reset would beryllium naive,” helium said successful a station connected Telegram.

“Russia has ever remained unfastened to dialog but lone connected equal, mutually respectful and honorable terms,” Slutsky added.

AFP contributed reporting.

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