What did they do?

At the end of historical meetings, it is supposed to print some joint commander. Go out together to the press. To report on the situation was the conversation. If in warm and friendly, then this is good, and if in business, then, then, it was not without a swearing in the most tense moments of discussion and worshiping in the end.

These are the traditions that have been established for centuries, and few people retreat from them. Even if no one in the world is interested in why and why the leaders of two insignificant states met, it is still customary to report. The ritual, there is nothing to be done, and the speakers, working on the style, suck their streamlined phrases from their fingers.

In this sense, the meeting of Obama with Putin "in the fields", as they say, was unique to the Session of the General Assembly of the UN. At first, the endless invitation speeches of Lavrov and others, the essence of which came down to the fact that the Russian side literally forced the American to the world. That is, so that the American president accepts Russian. Then the unprecedented reaction of the White House, as if aimed at disrupting the rendezvous. Like, it is so to be, Obama and Putin have seen, persuaded him, and he will not be rude, "continuing", however, "to treat Russia as a power with the economy a little lower than Spanish." After such, as they say, the visits are generally postponed at all, but, apparently, Vladimir Vladimirovich so much wanted to meet a friend of the hut so much that even this did not stop him. Putin's assistant Ushakov reproached his partners on tactlessness, and the scandal faded, without flaring up.

And then they performed at the UN: Obama, in the absence of Putin, Putin against the backdrop of the Ukrainian flag, broken near Ilovaisk. Obama spoke about the Russian annexation of Crimea and the occupation of part of Ukraine. Putin, not even once uttering the word "America", was inclined to the Middle Eastern theme and rhetorically asked: "Do you even understand now what you have done?" And then they finally met, the two leaders of the nuclear people in the Cold War, together and in the presence of large delegations, and this huge event on the website of the President of the Russian Federation were given exactly three lines .

The White House reacted equally lapidarously. The meeting, they say, was “positive,” said the same Josh Ernest, who offended Russia the day before. The positiveness was that the Russian and American military would join the Syria dialogue in order to avoid conflict there.

True, Putin still talked later with Russian journalists and told them that "the meeting ... was very useful and, which is especially pleasant, very frank." But these words could be understood differently. Either the presidents expressed some cherished thoughts regarding world politics, unsuccessfully trying to bring their positions closer, or with the last directness expressed a deep, suffered mutual hostility. When one of the questions, in the framework of the momentary journalistic investigation, wished to find out who was “the initiator of the meeting,” Putin did not maintain composure for long. "Here is attached!" - He threw in his hearts, and the remark "laughter" in this place designated the laughter of nervous.

Obama did not go to report to anyone that day. As if there was no date. As if Putin did not come to New York.

And the whole point is that from the point of view of purely political, they did not need to see and nothing to argue about. The contradictions between Russia and the USA are too deep today. As for the goals of propaganda, Obama did not have them - only the President of the Russian Federation had such goals. Most of all for internal use. Say, the Ukrainian theme is closed, now we save Syria from local villains, such as the Nazis, for which we make an anti -Hitler coalition in the Middle East. Despite the fact that Assada Putin will not fight and is not going to and is ready to hand over all the Syrians at a similar price, but this is a side plot. The main thing is that the West forgets about Ukraine, besieged by refugees and immovable Putin propagandists, who has long switched to the Middle East.

However, Obama why all this? The Kremlin game is too simple to suffer over the problem of its comprehension. Blackmail as the basis of the Kremlin political technology (“We change Assad to the removal of sector sanctions, yes, we will give Savchenko, if you back to the“ eight ”of the Prim)) is too understandable, and it’s not that the exchange is unthinkable (“ leave the Donbass - soften the sanctions ”), but do not discuss them seriously at the highest level. To do this, there are third -story officials who will grind and report.

But then Vladimir Vladimirovich dreams of a whole year in the same frame with Barack Obama, amazing compatriots with the breadth of his geopolitical capabilities, and how not to meet? I don’t want to embitterly embitter, he is unpredictable. And boring, and sad, and there is no one to give a hand, and there is no need, but why not exchange handshake? Protocol politeness where you go.

That's how they were probably seen: the triumphant Russian guest and the perplexing American master. Meet, talked. “By the way, you seriously claimed this,” Obama probably asked when you finished Syria, ”as if you know exactly what America had overthrew Yanukovych?” “Well, yes,” Vladimir Vladimirovich answered, with the captivating sincerity that is famous for, “then I had to export it with force.” And he laughed, because with humor a man.

But in general, the information is very scarce, as almost never happened in the history of world diplomacy after this kind of summit. It only leaked that Putin scored an arrow with Obama, rejoiced at the frankness of a rather long conversation, pointed out "discrepancies", without delving into details. The person is very persistent, Vladimir Vladimirovich nevertheless achieved his own, and if you add that he could not achieve other successes, and in an effort to get an audience with an American partner, he looked rather comical, then this will also sound like tactlessness. Many colleagues write so, and this does not make them honor, tooth shirts and spiteful people.