By Abdul Ruff
One major cause of global tensions obviously is the bad US-Russia reactions as the vested interests have managed so far to sustain the Russo-US conflict, directly harming international relations as well. Much of regional conflicts owe to animosity between the top powers – like fascist Israeli aggression and expansionism in Palestine and denial of freedoms to and killing of Kashmiris by their occupation nations, mainly colonialist India – testify this global phenomenon.
Naturally, conversely, once USA and Russia mend their tensed relationship, world would hope for a better future.
US President-elect Donald Trump has posted a series of tweets condemning those who oppose good relations with Russia calling the as” ‘stupid’ people or fools. Even against such controversies to support the Russian involvement in US presidency poll to get Trump elected by defeating all powerful Hillary Clinton, confusing the world at large, Trump vowed to work with Russia “to solve some of the many… pressing problems and issues of the world.
His comments came after an intelligence report said Russia’s president had tried to aid a Trump election victory. Trump believes only open and healthy cooperation with Russia can make a change in international relations now spoiled by many factors including the NATO terror wars for which USA provides funds and leadership. Israel also does its part in accelerating wars by using the Zionist American leaders so that it can continue to occupy Palestine territories, killing besieged Palestinians, including children.
Donald Trump said Democrats were to blame for “gross negligence” in allowing their servers to be hacked. In a series of tweets, Trump said that having a good relationship with Russia was “no bad thing” and that “only ‘stupid’ people, or fools, would think that it is bad!” He added that Russia would respect the USA more when he becomes the US president.
After being briefed by intelligence chiefs on the report on Friday, the president-elect declined to mention Russia, but did say he had “tremendous respect for the work and service done” by those in the US intelligence community. He also insisted the election outcome was not affected.
Trump feels the American leaders deliberately keep the US-Russia relations stained and strained and they make Russian leaders to retain the ties spoiled.
Trump said frequently during his election campaign that he wanted to improve ties with Russia. He has also repeatedly questioned US intelligence claims of Russian hacking in the election campaign. : “Only reason the hacking of the poorly defended DNC is discussed is that the loss by the Dems was so big that they are totally embarrassed!”, Trump tweeted on Saturday. He was referring to the Democratic National Committee, whose email accounts were hacked during the election campaign.
Hacking into the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and top Democrats; Using intermediaries such as WikiLeaks, DCLeaks.com and Guccifer 2.0 persona to release the information acquired from the hackings; Using state-funded propaganda and paying social media users or “trolls” to make nasty comments
In the wake of the report, the US Department of Homeland Security announced that voting machines and other election databases would be classified as “critical infrastructure” and given more protection from cyber-attacks. The unclassified part of the report says that the Kremlin developed a “clear preference” for Trump. Russia’s goals, the document added, were to “undermine public faith” in the US democratic process and “denigrate” his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton, harming her electability and potential presidency. “We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election,” it said. It gives no detailed evidence of Putin’s alleged role.
Clearly, the reports in the media that President Putin himself order the “mischief” and singed the note to the concerned agency about the hacking the US presidency poll looks like cheap attempt to discredit Russian intelligence and spoil US-Russian relations forever. Moreover, I this also calls into question the effectiveness of US government in stopping such intrusions by the Kremlin.
The report says Putin liked rump because he had vowed to work with Moscow and the Russian leader had had “many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia, such as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder”.
Putin has called Trump “a clever man” who should “quickly understand” his role. As a businessman Trump can only promote US ties with Russia and even China.
Russia has not commented on the report but has previously denied the claims about influencing the election. The Kremlin has yet to react to the report but state media rubbished it. “The headline-grabbing accusations are based on TV programmes, posts on social networks and material from entertainment publications,” Russia’s most-watched TV station Channel One said. Official state Rossiya 1 TV viewed the report through the prism of future relations between the two countries.
Its Washington correspondent Alexander Khristenko said the report was an “attempt to undermine the president-elect’s legitimacy”. “Donald Trump himself remained critically-minded about the intelligence services’ conclusions,” he said, adding that “this is clearly not the sort of reaction from Trump that Washington hawks were counting on.”
Last week, President Barack Obama ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the US over the alleged hacking. Russia has said it will not reciprocate. Puitn has not explained why he did not react sharply to that.
On Saturday, meanwhile, Trump confirmed that Dan Coats, a previously vocal critic of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, would be his new national intelligence director, giving an impression that Trump would let the Ukraine issue to be placed in back burner. .
An extraordinary, unpredictable US presidential race has ended with a final twist – a Donald Trump presidency. With the long campaign dominated by questions about his character, what he might do with power has become something of a sideshow. But he will soon have the chance to shape US domestic and foreign policy. Here is how he stands on key issues.
Trump has promised the biggest tax cuts since the Ronald Reagan era. He has pledged reductions across-the-board, promising working and middle income Americans “massive” cuts. His plan includes reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to three, cutting corporate taxes, eliminating the estate tax and increasing the standard deduction for individual filers.
Possibly, the top 1% of earners would see their income increase by double-digits, while the bottom quarter gets a boost of up to 1.9%. But the Center for a Responsible Budget has also warned his plan would balloon the national debt.
Trump says he will create 25 million jobs over 10 years, saying too many jobs, especially in manufacturing, are being lost to other countries. He plans to reduce the US corporate tax rate to 15% from the current rate of 35%, and suggests that investing in infrastructure, cutting the trade deficit, lowering taxes and removing regulations will boost job creation.
