Sentences with phrase «embolden russia»

On whether President - elect Donald Trump's comments about Russia and Putin embolden Russia, Obama said he would prefer to wait and see, in order to give Trump time to gather his team and become fully briefed on the issues.

Economic growth seems to be on track, especially in the U.S., but it remains tentative and several potential catalysts (e.g., a terrorist attack, bad news from China, saber rattling from an emboldened Russia, a wave of energy sector debt defaults) could undermine growth and trigger a long overdue correction.

Now, we have to deal with an emboldened Russia; apparently nostalgic for the old Soviet days (another creature spawned from the First World War), and bent on regaining territory it lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.

An emboldened Russia will on Thursday attempt to discredit Britain's international reputation at the UN after a series of blunders by Boris Johnson and the Foreign Office led to accusations that the...

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The withdrawal of American involvement would embolden China, Russia, and Iran while sending the neighbors of those countries scrambling to arm themselves and use all means to check the threats from the local authoritarian threat.

Relations between Russia and the west are terrible right now, Syria is a recruiting and training ground for radical Islamists, and the refugee crisis has emboldened right - wing nationalist factions within western nations.

Indeed, every time relations between Russia and the United States improve, Tehran moderates its positionand every time that central relationship is strained, Tehran is emboldened.