“All because of Moscow”: US Ambassador on the main reason for deteriorating relations with Russia

US Ambassador to Russia John Huntsman believes that one of the main reasons for the cooling of relations between the countries was the “interference” of Moscow in the election of the American president in 2016, reports RIA News.

I would not like to single out one reason, but I have to say that intervening in the US presidential elections in 2016 has played a big role. I think Russia underestimates how it affected both the elections and the people who were interested in them, they followed the electoral process. In American politics, the system for electing a head of state is sacred. And it is important for us to believe that this system is based on trust and perfection. And any attempt to undermine this system will be considered as an extremely inappropriate and annoying encroachment,

said Huntsman.

At the same time, he said, relations began to deteriorate in 2014, due to the situation in Ukraine.

The intervention added to the basket of distrust. And we can not get out until we understand the reasons that brought us here, and do not deal with them,

added a diplomat.

Huntsman also said that the main challenge for him is the lack of trust between the Russian Federation and the United States.

I just got to work and I can say that trust is just nil. And trust is a prerequisite for working together and moving forward in relationships both between people and between countries. Without trust, nothing can be done. So the biggest challenge was for me to understand what I need to do in order to build trust that allows us to honestly and openly discuss problems at the same table and find practical solutions where we have a common interest. But for this, speaking figuratively, you have to “refuel” well with trust,

he concluded.

Comments

[Sofa General]

From sick to healthy? Kravcheg ...

[Logall]

It’s not the Kremlin’s interference, but the Capitol madness! Crazy man sits and drives a psycho ... A vicious circle! therefore, extremes cannot be found ...
So you need to assign it!

[Jedi]

Sasha, Washington does not need normal relations with Russia - this is the essence of the issue. And all these excuses about interference in the elections are nonsense.

[Logall]

Washington does not need normal relations between Russia and the rest of the world! And they themselves can be friends, for the sake of themselves ...

[Jedi]

With friends like the United States and enemies, they are not needed.

[hrych]

Quote: Jedi

With friends like the USA and enemies, you don’t need

If he exaggerates his interference with the elections, then he is clearly a democrat or anti-trumpist. The State Department, which appoints the ambassadors, is again dirty. The Pentagon for Trump, the CIA, he cleaned up, now took on the FBI ... the next Department of State. If Trump cleans the Augean stables of the “deep state” in the US, then you can have such a pragmatic and patriotic friend ... of course not a friend, but a friend And this is not fantasy, Trump allowed us to finish off Daishaks, from Iraq and Kurdistan he provided military support, having hit the caliphate rear, has now withdrawn 400 marines from Syria. And the strike of the Kyrgyz Republic, like retribution for a chemical attack - is a symbolic, theatrical gesture, so that they lag behind ... Good luck, comrade Donny

[Jedi]

If the scenario predicted by you comes true, then it will be a show something else!

[Going]

“I just got started and I can say that trust is just at zero.

You will lower them in a minus.

[Cube123]

Quote: Jedi

Sasha, Washington does not need normal relations with Russia - this is the essence of the issue. And all these excuses about interference in the elections are nonsense.

Washington does not need friends, they only need vassals. And the hype with the elections is simply inflated as a potential tool for protesting the legitimacy of the elections and the removal of Trump.

[Jedi]

Here are the clowns: they can’t concentrate on the internal showdowns, give them everything to the external enemy. Not looking there, gentlemen, Americans.

[Cube123]

Quote: Jedi

Here are the clowns: they can’t concentrate on the internal showdowns, give them everything to the external enemy. Not looking there, gentlemen, Americans.

What they cannot take away is a systematic approach. They try to squeeze out any situation to dryness having received the maximum effect.

[Jedi]

This systematic approach will ruin them: it is impossible to kill three birds with one stone.

[Cube123]

Quote: Jedi

This systematic approach will ruin them: it is impossible to kill three birds with one stone.

But two, sometimes it’s possible

[Jedi]

I agree, but you understand what I wanted to say.

[vovanpain]

Quote: Cube123

But two, sometimes it’s possible

Yes, who is arguing then a colleague especially if the gun is like this

but I have to say that interference in the US presidential election in 2016 played a big role

Of course, of course, to come to a strange house and impose your conditions on top of arrogance, so there will be no trust.

[Going]

Do they need it? they do everything only for their own sake.

[Orionvit]

Quote: Jedi

And all these excuses about interference in the elections

And before that there was Crimea, and before that there was South Ossetia, and before that there was Putin’s Munich speech, and before that, there was the terrible Soviet Union, what will happen tomorrow? Let them already be determined in the end. And the casket just opens, Russia is guilty only of the fact that it is Russia and is inhabited by Russians (and other kindred peoples), and in addition to everything, has its own point of view. According to the West, this is a crime. Maybe it's time to answer overseas (and not only) "partners", thereby, what Russia is accused of. At least we will know why. It only seems to me that if Russia does everything that it is accused of in the West, they will regret it very much. They then are greyhounds such that they haven’t received the teeth from Russia for a long time. In short, in the words of Lavrov, well, you yourself understood, and talking to such people is useless.

[Jedi]

I agree with your words. You need to talk with the United States only in a language that they understand, that is, in the language of power. They perceive any unwillingness to give them a dent in the teeth as a manifestation of weakness.

[LSA57]

Quote: Jedi

And all these excuses about interference in the elections are nonsense.

not really. I intervened. I don’t know how, but it was. did not see the trump. but Stoite heard of him

[SPACE]

Quote: Logall

It’s not the Kremlin’s interference, but the Capitol madness!

The USA brought Poroshenko to power in Ukraine ... The Kremlin in revenge brought Trump to power in the USA, America above all if they are exceptional, then only in their paranoia.

[To be or not to be]

Just not insanity. And a means of internal struggle of clans within the united ... and the forerunner and justification and the justification for their future "NON-INTERFERENCE" in the election of the President of the Russian Federation in March 2018

[Chertt]

Well, what else could he say. - Yes, we are mattresses, all over the world are messing around, overthrowing governments, bombing sovereign countries. And in general, to drive us with a filthy broom, to ourselves, for a puddle

[Cube123]

Quote: Chertt

Well, what else could he say. - Yes, we are mattresses, all over the world are messing around, overthrowing governments, bombing sovereign countries. And in general, to drive us with a filthy broom, to ourselves, for a puddle

Mark Twain said this:
"If you translate this outstanding declaration (and the feelings expressed in it) into simple human language, it will sound something like this:" We, the British and Americans are thieves, robbers and pirates, of which we are proud. "
Mark Twain "We are the Anglo-Saxons." 1906
http://vivovoco.astronet.ru/VV/CAMERTON/TWAIN.HTM

[Finches]

Everything is sacred with you! And elections and freedom of speech ... While this is beneficial only to you, but as soon as someone has a different opinion from you, then all holiness disappears somewhere ....

[Sergey-svs]

Quote: Sofa General

From sick to healthy? Kravcheg ...

This hackneyed record has already snapped up: about the "intervention" of Moscow, Russian hackers, aHente-Trump and Putin’s buryats ?! If you yourself are stupid, then invite Mr. Mask to the State Department with his bearded hipsters, you will see tossed a couple of bucks lard - the new "creak startup" about the world atrocities of wild Muscovy!

[Orionvit]

Donald Trump, lost the keys to the nuclear suitcase. Probably wanted to ask Putin for a duplicate.

[volodya]

"It’s all about Moscow’s interference in the elections"

[siberalt]

Yeah. Magdalene seems to repent, but we seem to believe.

[Juborg]

Well yes! There would be no Moscow and Russia, and there would be no one to blame, China and S. Korea would no longer be there.

[Slovak]

This unfounded moron US ambassador to Russia? Has he already begun meetings with the Russian opposition and liberals?

[Mikhail Krapivin]

That's why Americans are hated all over the world. Hypocrisy. The problem is in our interference in their elections, and not in the fact that they have deliberately and persistently destroyed this trust for the last thirty years.

[Vadim Zhivov]

USSR with them, Soyuz-Apollo launched into the Cold War And now the Russians are going through the window

[Hariton laptev]

What confidence in the state of thieves, murderers, adventurers ??? Yes, they will betray anyone for the sake of profit. You can not trust the mattresses, in no way impossible. They will say one thing in the eye and will do it behind their backs as it is beneficial for them.

[ImPerts]

Wada demands recognition of their report and dusting of their heads with ashes, although the evidence is some indirect, incomprehensible ...
The US Congress is looking for something incomprehensible and non-existent ...

[iliitchitch]

One more thing about anything. "annoying assault", it is necessary. Would be smarter, no encroachment would not bother. But America must be trusted, yes. Not exactly a jerk.

[Berber]

The ambassador is an official person and is forced to speak official politics. So, possessed at the very top of their Olympus.

[rotmistr60]

In American politics, the system for electing the head of state sacred

And who argues with this that "sacred"? That is, everything should go as planned and already decided behind the scenes in certain rooms. And here time and a bummer. The Americans decided in their own way. And since the elections are “sacred”, it was urgent to find the culprit of the failure. Clinton did not say that she was an old dr ... and failed.

[The Siberian barber]

Well, they are all, under hypnosis, twist the same record ??)) Elections, elections ..
Or, before the election, everything was ok?))
The feeling that the "partners" fantasy has dried up for a long time.

[CAT BAIYUN]

In American politics, the election of the head of state is sacred. And it is important for us to believe that this system is based on trust and impeccability.

Is such a circus with elections like in Mattress sacred? Come on!
And faith is important, of course. The herd must believe in something ...

[askort154]

"... But for this, figuratively speaking, you must well" refuel "with trust. (Huntsman)


Our fools already once "refueled" your trust, ruined the country, which prevented you from being "exceptional". Do not build illusions, the shell twice does not fall into the same funnel. We got the vaccine. Russia is now too tough for you. It infuriates you.

[japs]

I must admit, you are right. WE got the vaccine. But those who manage the Russian Federation have not yet been ill and have no immunity. This liberal talk of leaders about the "partners" is clear evidence of this.

[jetfors_84]

What else can sick Mormon say?

[Topotun]

So, did the USA turn into a banana republic? Since "killed by sanctions" Russia simply dared democracy in the states by its interference in the elections? What for to state nonsense? However, lately the rhetoric of Americans has not become smarter. The impression of the global crisis is getting stronger.

[aszzz888]

... what a passage !!!!! ... what profound problems (at first glance), which draws parallels !!!! ... and in the denominator - we are (in the sense of merikatos) exceptional and everything is possible for them, including judging everyone by their patterns ... but if you subtract two from five fingers on your hand and make a figure - then this is for you (in sense of merikatos !!!!!) ...

[rocket757]

Is their election system sacred ??? Who would be interested to know?
I don’t know if it’s worth asking a question - for whom is this cow sacred?
According to the fact of the last election, this is to say, to amuse everyone, well, we can except the Yankees themselves!

[demo]

In American politics, the election of the head of state is sacred. And it is important for us to believe that this system is based on trust and impeccability. And any attempt to undermine this system will be considered as an extremely inappropriate and annoying assault.[B] [/ b]

Ambassador! Is everything all right with the head ?!
How many billions are “worth” participating in the presidential race and elections?
What sacred action are we talking about?
Is it about money or something?

Sometimes I think that Zadornov was right (his Kingdom of Heaven).
Oh and dumb! Well stupid!

[Nikolay Fedorov]

God save us from friendship with the Americans! Enmity with them makes it easier and easier for us to survive, because it is clear where the enemy is and what can be expected from him. In friendship with the Americans, we have no chance to survive. All their talk of trust for only one thing - to lull our vigilance to bite.

[rpuropuu]

In American politics, the election of the head of state is sacred.

Therefore, in the most democratic country in the world there are no direct elections You never know, suddenly the "wrong" candidate wants to participate

[vladimirvn]

They are they telling us about trust ?! Dunk their holy faces in the toilet, at every opportunity.

[Kent0001]

They’ll come up with something else tomorrow to blame us and what?

[Essex62]

What kind of trust are we talking about? The most correct position in relation to the Saki nonhumans was in the USSR, an enemy beyond a puddle. Every Soviet pioneer knew that behind the armored curtain there was nothing good, and all of them were evil bourgeois. Each kindergartener knew - byak atomic bomb, and (Nixon, Reagan further on the list) kaka.

[Dimmih]

And we won’t be able to get out until we understand the reasons that brought us here and deal with them,
Wangyu: and yet yes, you won’t get out because you don’t want to understand. And even more so you won’t understand because you didn’t understand.

[rocket757]

Too long to delve into the reasons ... eh, the students of Comrade shredded Dzerzhinsky, at first it’s a matter for them! And do not start politicians in this process !!! they’ll kill any investigation!
We have one goal - to make the country stronger, and to format the "servants of the people" to the fullest ... in short, they did not forget the Schaub, they, on whom this country ALWAYS held on!

[AlexVas44]

What is the point of procrastinating this already obsolete topic. Indisputable facts and evidence will be presented, there will be food ...

[fif21]

How can they be trusted (mattresses)? They don’t comply with international laws, they don’t fulfill international agreements or withdraw from them unilaterally, impose economic sanctions, overthrow unfavorable regimes, hold color revolutions ...... And their attempts to not even interfere in elections in the Russian Federation, but to arrange a maidan in the Russian Federation -how to name?
This ambassador would also go home Trade with the USA is scanty, there are no joint projects, and the interests of the USA in Russia can be represented by the ambassador of a neutral country. I demand to close the mattress consulate in Yekaterinburg (nursery of spies and provocateurs)

[midshipman]

In vain he did not accuse Russia of oppressing blacks in Honduras.
I had to face the US military three times: Egypt 1972; Angola 1985; Libya 1986 year. Everywhere they screamed that they were being ignored. And we managed to overcome them. But the country's top leadership surrendered all our victories. This is in addition to the beginning of the 80s in Kamchatka (perfectly E.Ya. Savitsky blocked their reconnaissance aircraft). I have the honor.

[koshmarik]

John, with respect to mutual trust, you are all right in saying that, for example, I remember how the United States assured us that NATO will not advance to the borders of Russia, and now it is already being established in the person of America in Ukraine, which, let it be known to you bordered by Russia. So trust your sharashkin office after that. Talkers are shameful. No responsibility for the bazaar. Still have to create a base in Cuba.

[Sergey53]

All because of us, all because of us. Appreciate what you would do without us? You are miserable without us.

[Karayakupovo]

Normal relations can also appear when the United States withdraws its military bases to its home, well, in extreme cases, when the Russian Federation also sets up its military bases near the US borders.

[weksha50]

“Without trust, nothing can be done. So the biggest challenge for me was to understand what I need to do to build trust that allows me to honestly and openly discuss problems at the same table and find practical solutions where we have a common interest. But for this, figuratively speaking, you have to “refuel” trust well...

Here ... The main message of this statement ... No wonder ... YOU... that is - Russia ... must believe US ... USA ... and everything will be chiki-farts ...
PS Well, believe us, we will not spoil the presidential elections in Russia !!!

[NordUral]

Whose cow would mumble, my friend.

[Dedall]

He also added this “salted ambassador” that it was Lincoln’s friendship with Ivan Turchinov, whom he had made a general. Because of this, all of American history went awry. Tsar Alexander is also to blame, who threw money in the United States in difficult times.

[Zacvasetskiy]

Dolbyashchiki !!!!!!!!!!!!!