Putin abruptly changes tactics
While Western and international leaders began to congratulate Donald Trump on his presidential victory, all eyes were on his “friend” Vladimir Putin, who remained silent.
After French President, Emmanuel Macron, and Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, the head of the Kremlin was kept waiting... His spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, had even declared that the Russian president would not react, as the United States was still “a hostile country directly and indirectly involved in a war against our state”.
Against all expectations, Vladimir Putin finally spoke out on Thursday, November 7, at a forum in Sochi. "If anyone wants to get back in touch, I don't mind. I'm ready," he said, referring to the newly elected president. He added that he admired Donald Trump's behavior during his assassination attempt. “He turned out to be a courageous person", he confided.
(MH with Manon Pierre - Source : Le Monde - Picture : Picture by tatarstan.ru via WikiCommons under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license)