What negotiations can be between Russia and the United States is an important issue, for which there is no unequivocal answer either from Russians or from Americans. Russia does not lose hope that it will be able to agree on something with the US. But this hope has a dying character. Moscow is aware of the fact that Trump is under very strong pressure from public opinion and the majority of the establishment, which any connections and any agreements with Russia are regarded as potentially or intellectually dangerous for the United States. And if Trump will agree on something, then he just podstavitsya. Therefore, its capabilities are very, very limited.
The second. In order to agree on something, he must present to the American society something convincing and received from Russia. And I'm not sure that Russia can provide anything substantial to it. Joint participation of the company in Syria in the Middle East against IGIL? Well, yes, it's possible. But is this a sufficient factor for some agreements - I'm not sure, because Russia in the same US is criticized for supporting the dictator Assad and in fact contributing to crimes against humanity. This is a very common opinion.
And finally, Tillerson said today that his visit to Moscow was futile. That is, the parties remained at their positions. Therefore, knowing how the G-20 meetings are going on, the meeting between Putin and Tillerson is likely to be on his feet or over a cup of coffee. This personal acquaintance and an attempt to find some kind of psychological contact, but no more. In order to agree on something, you must first do a serious job and meet not on your feet and not over a cup of coffee. Therefore, their future meeting beyond the bounds of dating will not come out.
But such a result for Russian-American relations will be positive. This attempt to establish contact, and in the long term, to establish working relations. No more.
Although the work between Russian and American diplomats and the expert community, including retired officials and politicians, is ongoing. This work is quite intensive, including in terms of preparing a meeting between Trump and Putin, as well as on further contacts. But because of differences in understanding of certain issues, because of the toxicity, as they call it in America, of ties with Russia, while the outcome of this work is incomprehensible. It is not that simple.
This Russian government, in general, is free from public opinion. In the US, it is not free from it, and plus in the American establishment there is a stable and powerful anti-Russian consensus. Americans are much more difficult.
Although attempts to understand what the parties want from each other and what they can give - go. I can say about this quite accurately, I watched this myself. Including this concerns the issue of Ukraine.
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