Frankly, I do not feel any gloating about the fiasco suffered by the Russian leader in Vietnam at the APEC summit, where an accursed American friend roughly humiliated him, refusing to meet in a separate meeting. It's sad to see how Putin plays out this humiliation, explaining what happened to the mismatch between his and tramp's schedules, and also the unacceptable features of the protocol proposed by the opposing party for Russians. It turns out that the Americans offered to hold a rendezvous at their site, as it was already in July at the G8 in Hamburg, which our people considered rudeness, how can they, two times in a row, demonstrate who is in the world the main.

It's embarrassing to see how Putin is trying to make a good face in a failed game of greatness, jokingly promising to "punish" his negotiators who allegedly failed to resolve the protocol problem. Nobody, of course, will not be punished, not in Vietnam's Danang and not yesterday there was a problem, and everyone knows about this very differently - it will be necessary to start counting, at least from "the times of the conquest of the Crimea", but not Ochakovo, but Putin's.

You can even roughly punish the American senators who "will" bring their president and his team. Whether it's a gift, Trump, in the transmission of correctly oriented Russian news agencies, as if "I can not" repeatedly asked Putin again and again whether Russia has interfered in the American elections, and you hear it, you understand, it's not me, it's them, hypocrites (thanks to Surkov, he severely denounced them) I was so bridged.

So the new Russian ambassador in Washington Antonov already complains, has come to establish relations, and no senator wants to accept him.

It's all to me that when Putin generously talks about his readiness to "turn the page" in relations with the US, like, forget everything and start from scratch - nothing will be nullified any more. Neither Trump nor Tillerson will help here, what tsatski "friendship" they can not hang on their chests.

Even the assurances of Moscow will not help, that without it, the Americans can not solve the problem of the unbearable North Korean Kim. Somehow, you understand completely by accident, violating all written diplomatic norms, today, in a disastrous day for Russian foreign policy, Valentina Matvienko merged the details of the letter brought to her from Pyongyang about his readiness to strike the US nuclear strike. Pay attention, about North Korea, which was submitted by the Kremlin almost as the main goal of the meeting with Trump, today they do not remember there already. Without us, this "rocket guy" will understand.

In this situation, one can understand the Kremlin, delaying the announcement of Putin's plans to go to the polls.

What is the history of external success? Syria is expensive in the country is not "sold", rather, on the contrary, the Crimea has already been played, only the Kerch bridge remains there. , the squabbles in the EEMP will generally be silent.

Even "bombing Voronezh" is no longer working.

Boring Arkady Dubnov, Journal of International Affairs.