Time journalist Simon Schuster notes that "with every new attempt to make friends with the West, Putin seems to be hoping that the heads of other countries will be able to overcome the restrictions imposed on their powers, just as he himself did in Russia".

"They always disappoint him, although no one did it as spectacularly as President Trump," reads the article. - On July 27, the US Congress sent Trump a veto-protected bill to impose new sanctions on Russia for alleged interference in the US presidential election last year - and less than a month after the two presidents first met at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. To many in Moscow, this bill proved that Trump is a helpless leader unable to fulfill his solemn promises to "get along" with Russia ". "And since Trump can not deal with his legislators - it means he is weak," wrote political analyst Alexei Makarkin in an analytical article on the draft law on sanctions.

"However, Makarkin missed the same circumstance that Putin seems to be unable to understand: namely, that members of the US Congress, including the Republicans, are not" their legislators "for Trump. They represent an equivalent branch of the government, just like the judiciary, which has repeatedly blocked the immigration agenda of Trump,. "This misunderstanding of the limits of the executive branch goes back to the early years of Putin's presidency, during which he established control over the Russian media and began to assume that his Western counterparts could do the same in their countries".

The journalist notes that on Russian TV channels Trump's inability to calm the American media is presented as a sign that the US is ruled by an all-powerful political clique that just this time went against Trump.

"This is a new turn of the familiar story, suggestive that the Kremlin still holds to the hope that Trump will cling to the American system and turn her to an alliance with Moscow," says Shuster. "We waited for quite some time that maybe something will change for the better, fueled such a hope that the situation will somehow change. But, judging by everything, if it changes, it will not be soon, "the Russian president's journalist said..