One hundred days of Donald Trump's tenure as president of the United States has become one of the most common stories in the world news. Observer comments, as is always the case when it comes to the personality of Donald Trump, are diametrically opposed - from the belief that a successful businessman has begun to learn classical political art and his actions cease to resemble a riotous talk, to the same certainty that a new one The American president is chronically uneducated, impulsive, unpredictable and incapable of understanding what exactly politics is, what he decided to do in his advanced age. But such a polemic is primarily a matter for the American media, assessing how the new head of state manages to fulfill its election promises and change the lives of those who voted for it.
And we are interested in how Donald Trump himself lived a hundred days ago, and quite another person - Russian President Vladimir Putin. A man who assured the world that he was confident in Trump's victory. A man who, according to everyone's opinion, gave instructions to his special services to intervene in the American election campaign - ironically, it was also an important topic of a hundred days.
One hundred Putin days under Trump's presidency are suddenly reminded of the origin of the tradition to mark this time interval. One hundred days - the creation of a short-lived triumph of Napoleon Bonaparte. The flight of the emperor from the Elbe began with the successful restoration of the regime overthrown by the Allies - and Waterloo and St.. Elena. That's where the hundred days went from.
Putin and his Napoleonic complexes were all very similar. The victory of Donald Trump was noted in Moscow as his own political success. Russian propagandists even offered their fellow citizens to drive around Moscow with the hated flags of the United States. In the State Duma, the most odious politicians - to take at least the same neo-Nazi clown, Vladimir Zhirinovsky - offered to drink champagne "for our victory". The success of Donald Trump was seen as a personal defeat for President Obama-hated President Barack Obama and his likely successor Hillary Clinton. Although, if you think about it, why should Putin hate Obama and Clinton? Both began their stay in Washington - as president and state secretary respectively - with a meaningless and inadequate (if one recalls Russia's previous attack on Georgia) "reset" - and not fault, but the misfortune of Obama and Clinton, that Putin took this "reset" as permissiveness. The famous indecision of Obama, his unwillingness to respond to blatant violations of international law, his frank snobbery is some kind of Russia, what the US can do, his misunderstanding of how modern wars have changed have allowed Putin to become what he has become. Putin should have prayed for Obama - and for Clinton at the same time.
And he decided to pray on Trump. And he was.
Trump really expressed sympathy for Putin during his election campaign - which became one of the important evidences of his political inexperience. Trump employees communicated with Russian officials - and we only eventually learn about the true extent of these contacts. But why should this become a solid foundation for the construction of new US-Russian relations?.
Trump's sympathy for Putin and the investigation of possible contacts of his employees with Russian officials and diplomats - especially after the resignation of the first presidential national security adviser General Flynn - made any contact with the Kremlin toxic for the new head of state and dangerous for his further political career. Perhaps the parties would prefer to freeze the level of relations at the mark of the departed administration - so to speak, until better times - but Trump's confidence is that he should not be like Obama's "fraud" and is obliged to delineate the "red lines" that should not be violated in Modern world, literally upset the relationship between the Kremlin and the White House in the tartar! After the bombardment of the Syrian airfield by American missiles, even the most distant observer from the politics became clear that Trump is really not Obama and can act impulsively but resolutely, confidently and rigidly. In Moscow, literally, they became infuriated - neither Putin himself, nor his diplomatic Sancho Panza, clumsy hamovit Sergey Lavrov could conceal it. And the knight of the Russian Order of Friendship Rex Tillerson, who was expected to normalize relations between Russia and the United States and prepare the notorious "big deal", turned out to be the Secretary of State who had spoken most harshly to Kremlin hooligans since Ronald Reagan.
After 100 days in the office of Donald Trump, it became clear that there would be no "big deal", there would be no normalization of relations, there would not even be a freeze of contacts at the level of the administration of Barack Obama. And there will be confrontation for which there is every reason.
First, Trumpu really needs to "rebuild" from Putin - otherwise the ongoing investigation of contacts of his employees with Russian officials and diplomats risks becoming a serious test for the American president. And if this investigation is brought to an end at the moment of aggravation of relations between Moscow and Washington, Trump will always be able to say that contacts - even if they were - had no political consequences. And this is important for him.
Secondly, Trump is negative about Moscow's allies. Yes, it does not have a direct confrontation with Russia itself, but it turns out that in order to improve relations with the United States, the Kremlin must give up almost all its allies. And they do not talk about this in the backstage, they are now talking about it aloud. During his stay in the Russian capital, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson clearly stated that Russia should make a choice between cooperation with the civilized world and the support of Assad. Clear nowhere to go. And next is the possible strengthening of US pressure on North Korea, another traditional ally of the Kremlin. The revision of relations between the United States and Iran, another important ally of the Kremlin. Confrontation occurs literally everywhere. Trump signs a law approving the accession of Montenegro to NATO - and Russia continues to destabilize the situation in this country, trying with its supporters and governors to disrupt this accession. The United States supports the start of the work of the Macedonian parliament and the election of its new speaker - and Russia speaks of "usurpation of power" and calls on the president of the country to introduce a state of emergency. And such examples will only multiply. Remember, during his election campaign, Donald Trump talked about the need to unite with Moscow efforts in the fight against the "Islamic state"?
But now, after a hundred days, even about this no one mentions.
The hundred days of Trump in Russian-American cooperation have become proof of one simple truth known to everyone who has seriously engaged in practical politics. For systemic arrangements there is not enough sympathy and emotion - a solid foundation is needed, built on common interests and values. The United States and Putin's Russia have no such common interests and values.
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