Trump says at a White House news conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (yehnz STOHL'-tehn-burg) that the organization is "no longer obsolete". It's one of the campaign messages that Mr. Trump has remained most consistent on since his election, but if his views are strongly held, they're relatively newly formed.
United States relations with Russian Federation "may be at an all-time low" said Donald Trump as he moved ever further away from his campaign promises to establish better ties with Moscow.
Mr Trump's harder line comes amid growing questions about whether his aides and associates colluded with Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
And he said that Russia was open to restoring a "deconfliction" hotline to enable U.S. and Russian military commanders to avoid accidental clashes over Syria.
Last week, Trump ordered a cruise missile strike on a Syrian airfield in retaliation for a chemical attack on Syrian civilians by their government. He said chemical attacks "cannot go unanswered" in Syria but did not lay out a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation strategy for how the military alliance would move forward in Syria.
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Trump said it's "possible" but "unlikely" Russian Federation did not know Assad's team was prepping that gas attack on Syrian citizens.
"Trust at the working level, especially at the military level, hasn't gotten better; rather, it's deteriorated", Putin said in an interview with the Mir TV channel that aired Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Trump refrained from praising Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, suggesting, as had Secretary of State Rex Tillerson an hour earlier, that the country's relations with Russia may be at an all-time low, adding "we'll see what happens". Mr Trump said it was "certainly possible" though "probably unlikely".
"I said it was obsolete", Trump declared at the White House. "Right now the world is a mess. We are going to see how that all works out".
Allegations of collusion between Russian officials and Trump campaign associates also have weakened Trump's ability to make concessions to Russia in any agreement. He floated the idea of easing sanctions imposed on the country for its incursions into Ukraine. "It is defensive - and we don't want a new Cold War". PolitiFact determined, "The change he's apparently referring to - the creation of a new senior post and division for coordinating intelligence sharing - is just the most recent incremental change in how the alliance handles counter-terrorism, a topic it has addressed, in big ways and small, for more than 30 years".
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