
The coming meeting of Vladimir Putin with Barack Obama Barack Obama in Moscow has already managed to christen the Kremlin’s diplomatic victory, a breakthrough of sanctions and other beautiful names that usually accompany information about Putin’s activities in the official media. But it is still worth remembering how it was all in fact. When there were reports about the upcoming trip of the Russian president to New York, the first question for officials in the Kremlin and Foreign Ministry was about the possibility of meeting with Obama. And the answer to this question was quite obvious - from the point of view of the Kremlin: if there is a signal from Washington, we will consider it. That is - if Obama asks. Because it is clear that Obama had a rare chance to talk about the fate of the world with the conqueror of Sevastopol, the hero of Debaltsev, the savior of Latakia and the last hope of Tiraspol, the emperor of Great and a piece of Malya and - if we make a base - white, and other, and other hidden territories. So why not take this chance?
But Obama did not signal and did not signal, did not signal and did not signal. And without a meeting with him, the whole trip to the session of the General Assembly of the UN lost all meaning, because it is clear that Putin does not go there in order to make another meaningless speech in the next meaningless hall. He goes to meet with Obama.
And when only a few days were left before the trip and it became clear that the White House was not going to humiliate himself until the fulfillment of the unspoken desires of the Russian president, the Kremlin began to signal himself - desperately and continuously. So a pimple teenager, secretly in love with the first beauty of the class and unable to admit this passion either to her or to himself, eventually sends twenty -five SS, and then bursts into the porch and begins to hide into the desired door.
Calm down, boy!
Meanwhile, Washington never said that they would refuse Putin in his request to take several minutes of precious time of the President of the United States. Nevertheless, Putin leads the state, which is one of the main destabilizers of the modern world, and he will not refuse if he tries to embark on the path of correction. No need to break the open door, you need to find the right words and begin to do the right actions.
Putin, of course, is unlikely to be capable of this - he moved away from prudence to a distance that he has not physically overcome. But at the same time, it is the side that agrees to the meeting that will determine its genuine agenda. And in this sense, the interpretation of the petitioner and the agreeing clearly does not coincide. They want to talk about Syria in the Kremlin. And in the White House - about Ukraine. And this, as they say in the Odessa not captured by Putin, are two big differences.
Putin still hopes that Obama will be able to “suck” his desire to preserve the gangster regime of Assad in order to fight the “Islamic state” and will receive indulgence for actions in the Ukrainian direction. There will be none of this. In relation to the situation in Syria, Obama is only interested in one thing: so that Putin does not give up, helping his friend, and does not destroy opposition detachments fighting with the radicals. In Washington, they are well aware that Putin’s participation in the Syrian conflict is by no means an increase in the struggle with the “Islamic state”, but the strengthening of Assad in the fight against all its opponents. And no one said that the Islamic State has his first in line.
Obama needs that Putin does not do what he cannot do, but what he can do: stopped the war, which he himself untied. Therefore, the President of the United States will talk with the President of Russia not about Syria, but about Ukraine. About how the measures of influence on Moscow can be strengthened, if Putin does not calm down, and how these measures can be weakened if the Kremlin refuses further aggression and begin this rather than an ostentatious descalation.
And only Putin himself decide what to choose after this, such an important conversation for him - a whip or a gingerbread.