The US president seemed to have little "victory" in the two world wars, at the signing of the military budget in the White House, he said that the US defeated the terrorist group IGIL (in Russia it is banned) in Syria and Iraq. The transcript of the speech was posted on the White House website.
In his speech, the US president stated that the budget will allow the continuation of the financing of the campaign to destroy IGSF: "But they (terrorists) spread to other areas. And we pursue them as quickly as they spread. Over the past eight months, we have achieved greater success in the fight against the IGSF than the previous administration for the entire period of its rule ".
On this occasion, expressed his views of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said that the contribution was not at all to the United States, but to Russia in the defeat of terrorism in the SAR was enormous. At the briefing, Lu Kang said: "In two years, significant progress has been made in the antiterrorist operation in Syria. Russia made a huge contribution to this. The Chinese side positively assesses the contribution made by Russia. We proceed from the premise that the international community should continue to continue cooperation and coordination, resolutely combat any forms of manifestation of terrorism and, with the UN leading role, to promote the process of a political settlement of the Syrian crisis ".
The words of the American president were commented on Twitter by the chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy Alexei Pushkov:
"We defeated the IG in Syria". These words of Trump do not convince even the US media: they write that Russia defeated Syria. And yesterday there was Putin, not Trump ". Pushkov called on the head of the United States to stop attributing other victories to himself, referring to Trump's words about the US victory in World War II, and recalled: "The USSR played the main role in the victory over Hitler. And the United States waited three years before opening a second front. ".