Do I need, no longer young journalist, wise with many years of experience in monitoring the world political scene, screaming that the king is naked when many of my colleagues are just doing this, and the retinue of the naked king and his numerous admirers are sure that they see a luxurious outfit. And all our cries about the absence of a dress - "fake news".

The only person able to tear the bandages off the eyes of the enamored population was another naked king, suddenly acting as the tamer of our universal bragging. For the past day we have been trying to understand that all this meant. And, of course, the most common motive of all explanations is that it is very important for Trump to prove the absence of the notorious collusion and that it is easier for him to understand and understand the dictators of the dictators than the leaders of the democratic world.

But this is not too logical. If Trump needed to prove the absence of collusion between his headquarters and the Russian special services, he would avoid Putin as an infectious disease - at least until the end of Mueller's investigation. He would cancel the meeting after he learned that the US Department of Justice charged 12 GRU officers. But Trump so desperately climbed into someone else's den, as if his honey is hidden there.

Trump's sympathy for Putin is for no one else's secret. But his behavior at a press conference with the Russian president was a manifestation of not sympathy, and servility. Before the Russian ruler, Trump had already met with North Korean and Chinese dictators, much cleaner Putin. With Kim Jong-in, he was free. With Xi Jinping - is correct. He was not servile with anyone. In general, with no one. I think the Americans before this historic meeting did not even suspect that Trump might be so. But now they know, we know, knows the world.

These two argue that they have never been acquainted before, but between them is the connection of such a force, which does not always arise even between close friends. This is a link between the mutual knowledge of facts available to them alone. A real intimate experience, which is very rare in politics.

I will not even guess what this knowledge is. And even more so I will not step on the painful callosity of the US president and talk about conspiracy, feverishly denied them. I'm talking only about the commonality of understanding the facts - that is, about what I saw with my own eyes at the press conference of the American and Russian presidents.

And I admit that many of this community will not want to notice. What will help them is not the eyes, but the facts - if they will, of course.

If we learn about these facts sooner or later, then it will be a political earthquake of such strength that God forbid America and all of us to survive it safely. If you can safely hide the ends in the water of the Moscow River - well, in this water we all have to swim for a very long time, this also needs to be understood.

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