“I think it’s going to get better, I really do,” Risch said on Monday when asked if US-Russian relations would improve. “You’ve got somebody who is an entirely different personality from our previous president, and I think there is going to be a dialog between the heads of our two countries that is entirely different from the dialog that has taken place.”
Risch added that “everybody needs to catch their breath and see how this plays out,” regarding relations between Washington and Moscow.
Earlier on Monday, Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee Ben Cardin said during the debate on Trump’s nominee for chief diplomat that he was particularly troubled by Tillerson’s answers to questions submitted by committee members, which showed ‘no sensitivity’ that Exxon-Mobil’s business in Russia is helping to finance the Russian authorities.
Trump has promised dramatic improvements in the US-Russian relationship compared with former President Barack Obama, for whom Trump has suggested Putin has little to no respect.
