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To the nato budget, the united states wants each country to pay at least 2% of its national budget to defense spending in nato. in terms of the other remarks from mike pence, regarding ukraine and regarding how russia will, you know, be held to account for its actions, i mean, i think from a russian poi, this is not the kind of language that they are expecting to come from the trump administration. remember, donald trump campaigned, effectively, on a platform of thawing the relationship between the united states and russia. he promised that he would look again at recognizing crimea, which was ...

The u.s. will be different moving forward under president trump? >> of course, that was the big expectation, there was a lot of hopes here, although the kremlin always said it never had a rose-tinted view about what donald trump could bring to the relationship between the united states and russia. you know, the russian media was full of praise for donald trump, full of high expectations about deals on issues from nato expansion to syria to the situation in ukraine. the whole situation, though, the whole mood as changed dramatically, with the recent remarks, not just from the vice president, bu...

Of course. but the state media, the messages put across in newspapers and on television here was very much pro trump because the kremlin sees him as somebody they can do a deal with potentially. they see him as not necessarily fixed in his anti-are russian stance, which is the way they characterized hillary clinton. so there are all sorts of ways in which they could be a pivotal moment between russia and the united states. trump indicated, for instance, that he would be willing to work with russia in syria to eliminate islamic states and other jihadist groups. that's music to the kremlin's ear...