Putin also warned of a new arms race if Washington doesn't agree to extend the START nuclear arms agreement with Moscow.
In a four-hour, televised year-end news conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Democrats used"fabricated reasons" to impeach President Donald Trump over Ukraine because their attempt to link him to Russian election meddling failed.; said the Kremlin would respond in kind to"unfriendly" new U.S.sanctions; and floated the prospects of amending the Russian constitution to allow him to run for another term,.
Instead, he said they turned to accusations that Trump allegedly pressured Ukraine. "I don’t know what it is all about," he said."Your members of Congress should know better.", Putin said he doubted the Republicans would remove him from office, “Now if we were to receive a letter tomorrow — we are ready to sign it and send it back to Washington,” he said."But thus far there has been no answer to any of our suggestions. And without a new START treaty, there is nothing to curb an arms race. And that, in my opinion, is bad.”Putin said Moscow would reciprocate against a new sanctions bill, working its way through Congress, that would punish Russian oligarchs over Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.
"Your humble servant served two terms consecutively, then left his post, but with the constitutional right to return to the post of president again, because these two terms were not successive." he said. This clause"troubles some of our political analysts and public figures. Well, maybe it could be removed.""We're not really sure why global warming is happening, but we need to do something about it,” he said.
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