Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the strike as "act of aggression" and said it violated global law. Trump said in a note on Twitter. We're a very, very strong country.
It turns out that wielding power - as opposed to criticizing it - can change your outlook. He also said Putin had agreed to reactivate a US-Russian air safety agreement over Syria that Moscow suspended after the US missile strikes. Syria gave a murky account of what happened, denying its planes were in the air at the time of the dawn attack.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said his administration's policy was not to demand Assad step down as part of a "peaceful resolution to the conflict", in some contrast to Tillerson's remarks in Moscow. "They were there", he said.
"The results will not come quickly", Mr Lavrov said.
China, which has vetoed six resolutions on Syria since the civil war began, abstained from Wednesday's United Nations vote, along with Ethiopia and Kazakhstan.
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called on Moscow to stop protecting Assad and said the United States wants to work with Russian Federation toward a political solution for Syria. The attack was launched just a day after he accused, without a shred of evidence, President Bashar al-Assad of being behind last week's suspected chemical weapons attack, which killed over 80 people in the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who hosted his Iranian and Syrian counterparts at Friday's trilateral meeting in Moscow, denounced last week's USA attack on Syria and warned that any further such action would entail "grave consequences not only for regional but global security".
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Russian Federation is an outlier internationally for not attributing the attack to the Assad regime. -Russian ties from both Trump and Tillerson reflected the former Cold War foes' inability to forge better relations, as Trump until recently has advocated. "How do you know that?" he asked.
"Things will work out fine between the United States of America and Russia", Trump nevertheless tweeted Thursday, as his top diplomat departed Moscow empty-handed after discussions with Putin and other Russian officials. The accusation that the Kremlin tampered with the USA democratic process only buttresses those who see Russian Federation as America's greatest geopolitical foe. "It'd be a fantastic thing if we got along with Putin and if we got along with Russian Federation, and that could happen, and it may not happen; it may be just the opposite".
"Today's vote could have been a turning point", she said. But in the face of realities, there's been a switch. "We are 100% sure that if our colleagues at the United Nations, as well as The Hague, try to avoid this investigation, this will signify that they are reluctant to find out the truth, but we will insist that the truth will be found". On Wednesday, Trump tweeted that he and Xi had had "a very good call" about Pyongyang.
For Trump, it's a dramatic reversal from his repeated campaign pledges to forge a new U.S. "That's a butcher", Trump said.
"You can not not talk to China. I think, new attempts will be made".
"What we do know is the attack was planned and carried out by regime forces at the direction of Assad."Lavrov retorted by saying: "This is obviously the subject where our views differ". "It means, they don't want the peace process to be a success". I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing.
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