Trump: Some want war more than to meet with Putin

The US president says that he and the Russian leader have come closer to attitudes, and "some have been bothered by this because they wanted to see a boxing match."

US President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that some people "would rather go to war than" he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki. "Some people hate the fact that I have agreed with President Putin. We'd rather wage war than see this, it's called the degradation syndrome Trump," Trump wrote.

In one of the messages he pointed out that some people hate the fact that he had a very good meeting with the Russian president.

"Many intelligent people liked my appearance at a press conference in Helsinki." Putin and I discussed a number of important issues. "We agreed well, which seemed to be frustrating to many haters who wanted to see a boxing clash. results! ", wrote Trump on Twitter. He said that a long-term meeting with Putin in Helsinki could be very significant and that "great results" would be achieved.

'Greater success than NATO'

"While the NATO meeting in Brussels was a big triumph, with even more billions of dollars that the member states would expose at a fast pace, a meeting with Russia could prove to be even more successful in the long run. Many positive things will come from that meeting," he wrote is the US president on Twitter.

He said that the relations between Russia and the United States are at the lowest level, but also that this situation will change. Trump and Putin met in the main Finnish city on July 16th, and after the summit they addressed journalists and said that there was a mutual desire and readiness to establish a long-term dialogue and normalize relations between the two countries. The two leaders discussed the situation in the Middle East, Crimea and Russia's interference in the US presidential election in 2016.

It was the first official bilateral meeting between the two leaders, after which Trump said it was a "good start".

• 18 Jul, 2018
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