VOA常速英语:特朗普的言论给莫斯科提供了一剂清醒剂

Private intelligence is a thriving business in London, these are the offices of Orbis Business Intelligence,a firm that reports say put together the intelligence dossier,that includes tawdry and compromising information about the incoming US President that could be used to discredit him.

Mr. Trump, in his first news conference since the election,sought to dispel any notion of collusion with or kowtowing to Russia.

“There’s no reset button.We’re either going to get along, or we’re not. I hope we get along, but if we don’t, that’s possible, too.”

Analysts see the words as a departure from what many expected would be a close and warm relationship between the new U.S. leader and Russia.

“In a sense, there is a bit of a threat to Mr. Putin as well, which is,You’d better get on with me because you will know that I am a much tougher enemy than anyone else if you get on my bad side.’So although we’ve been hearing all this syrupy language toward Putin, which also has been very welcome in the Kremlin,I think we saw a very different side today,which might just send a few concerns in the Kremlin about what happens should interest diverge.”

That is language that Russia understood.

“It showed a major shift from what Mr. Trump used to talk about Russia, used to say about Russia,and how he actually views Russia, in my perspective.I don’t think that people in the Kremlin, especially Putin, do not understand this,and that they were so naive to believe that Trump will be their friend in the Oval Office, in the White House.”

The allegations contained in the reported Orbis dossier have been met with skepticism among observers and the international intelligence community.

“Most people don’t believe them to be true.I mean, there’s a lot of inaccuracies that have been pointed out about them.I think the story tells you more about possibly the nature of the relationship between Mr. Trump and his own intelligence agencies right now.”

A rift between the incoming U.S. leader and American intelligence services is something that analysts say Vladimir Putin is more likely to be watching now.

Luis Ramirez, VOA news, London.