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Russia's Putin, Britain's May agree to meet to try to thaw frosty ties
Reuters ^ | 09 August 2016 5:56pm EDT | Alexander Winning, Andrew Osborn, Kylie MacLellan

Posted on 08/10/2016 2:45:22 AM PDT by blueplum

Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke by phone on Tuesday and agreed to meet "in the near future" to try to improve poor relations between Moscow and London, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Both leaders are due to attend a G20 summit in China early next month, giving them an opportunity to meet for the first time since May became prime minister in July.

Relations between Russia and Britain are strained by differences over Ukraine and Syria as well as by what London says is a sharp increase in flights by long-range Russian bombers near British air space.

The Kremlin said Putin and May had agreed to try to work to ensure that the two countries' intelligence services communicated with one another properly and to improve air safety, a reference to Russian military flights.

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TOPICS: Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: detente; putin; terrorism; theresamay
I'd like to be a fly on the wall (well away from ashtrays) when Hillary reads this in the morning paper.
1 posted on 08/10/2016 2:45:25 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

GOOD MOVE after the splendid BREXIT ( ie NO to EU , obama and other globalists ) !

GO TRUMP


2 posted on 08/10/2016 2:47:18 AM PDT by Ulysse (h)
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Trump effect.


3 posted on 08/10/2016 3:13:58 AM PDT by Fhios (Progressives just don't know when to stop digging.)
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Good news...seems May is showing mny signs of being an adult.


4 posted on 08/10/2016 4:46:18 AM PDT by crazycat
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Obama has almost succeeded in making America irrelevant on the international front.

If he didn’t have billions of dollars extorted from American taxpayers ready to hand out to his muslim friends his telephone would never ring.


5 posted on 08/10/2016 4:50:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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Wasn’t that the point of his administration?

He stated he wanted the US to be one among equals.


6 posted on 08/10/2016 5:00:01 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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Everybody is getting along with each other, except with the US.

Barack is such an A-hole, no one trusts him... even Muslims.


7 posted on 08/10/2016 5:26:45 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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May is talking to Putin? Wow. May must be a Kremlin agent.


8 posted on 08/10/2016 7:08:20 AM PDT by RAldrich
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Right now if you are a first world nation going it alone, you have six choices in front of you. Isolate yourself (i.e.the Swiss), align with the USA, align with China, align with Russia, align with Islamia (i.e. France until recently), align with EU. You can pick more than one, of course, but some are mutually exclusive.

The UK had chosen for decades to align with the US and the EU. That was their policy. Now with Brexit, alignment with the EU is sketchy at best as the EU makes noise about punishing the UK. And alignment with the USA is sketchy at best because ... Obama. 'Nuff said.

So what do they do? Aligning with China makes no sense, aligning with Islam is always a bad idea unless you are able and prepared to crush them under your boot if they get out of line and the UK lacks the will and the power to do that on their own. Going it alone while Europe is under assault is not a good call and since the USA cannot be trusted anymore, there's Putin with open arms waiting to welcome everyone into his warm embrace.

Obama and Hillary Clinton have wiped out the USAs reputation as a reliable friend, there is no trust anymore and Putin is ready to fill the void.

9 posted on 08/10/2016 9:27:51 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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