Excellent prospects

The crazy presidential elections in the United States have finally ended. The elected president repeats that he had won a "crushing" victory. This is far from the case, but we need to get used to hyperboles for the next four years. However, he already measured himself for eight years. At noon on January 20, it will be sworn and will begin to fulfill duties.

The last survey shows that most Americans - 54 percent - are waiting for this moment with mixed feelings of uncertainty, anxiety and pessimism. After the election of George Bush Jr., the optimists in 2000 were 59 percent, after the election of Barack Obama in 2008-66.

There is something to worry about. Recently, Henry Kissinger was asked in an interview : "Put Trump has no experience of state work. But he can surround himself with good advisers. After all, this is possible?" Kissinger replied: "The president must have his own internal beliefs. Advisers cannot give him them."

But Kissinger is an experienced diplomat. He does not want to spoil the relationship with anyone. He wants him to be accepted in the Kremlin, and for this he needs to maintain loyalty to President Trump. Therefore, he immediately paid tribute to the election Trump, who won the nomination contrary to the position of party bosses. "Now he must apply the same skill in the international arena."

What is true is true. Trump knows very well how to enlist the support of the party leaders. He appointed Helen Chao Minister, the wife of the leader of the republican majority in the Senate of Mitch McConnell, and MacConnell called this choice "brilliant." It is not surprising that he rejected the requirement to create a special Senate Committee on the investigation of Russia's intervention in the American electoral process. This is now in Washington the separation of powers.

Among the important points of the Trump program in the first hundred days, filling out the vacancy in the US Supreme Court. This place has been empty since March - after the sudden death of judge Antonina Scalia. Republicans in the Senate stubbornly refused to even consider the candidacy represented by President Obama. Now President Trump will appoint the ninth judge of his like -minded person - and the balance of forces in this areopagus will shift in favor of the conservatives. Then the work on the abolition of the conquests of the Great Liberal Revolution of the 60s will boil, starting with the right to abortion and ending with freedom of speech. I’m afraid that many Americans do not even suspect what rights and freedoms they can lose: this generation has never fought for them and considers them to be granted.

Here are fresh examples of new thinking and perestroika from one of Trump's closest advisers - the former speaker of the lower house of Newt Gingrich. The issue is discussed whether the president has the right to give positions in his administration to his own relatives - because there is a law that forces such appointments. And the president, says Gingrich, enjoys the unlimited right of pardon, he can forgive children in advance for violation of the law. This, of course, is unusual nonsense, designed for completely illiterate people. The President cannot mercy for an imperfect crime, and in this case he must parse himself, and this is absurd. It was in order to receive a pardon from his successor Gerald Ford that Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. Such a legal culture has Trump advisers.

The same Gingrich plans to revive the comic on the investigation of anti -American activities. In the summer of this year, discussing a terrorist attack at the Orlando nightclub in a talk show, he said :

Let me remind you that the attacks in San Bernardino, Fort Gud and Orlando were committed by American citizens. We intend to ultimately declare war on the Islamic chauvinists and say: if you take an oath of allegiance to ISIS, you become a traitor and lose your citizenship. And we intend to take a much more stringent position. In the late 30s of the last century, President Franklin Roosevelt collided with Nazi penetration into the United States. The commission for the investigation of anti -American activities was originally created to identify the Nazis. For this purpose, we adopted several laws in 1938 and 1939 and announced assistance to the Nazis illegal. We are going to take similar steps at present.

It is true that the commission was created to identify those who sympathize with Nazism, but after the war she switched to the sympathetic communism - the dashing of trouble began. It all depends on the definition of what anti -American activity is, and in the ranks of the Republicans there are a lot of those who consider the enemies of America of liberals.

About the likely foreign policy of Trump Henry Kissinger expressed this way:

Donald Trump is a phenomenon, which foreign countries have not yet seen. For them, his coming to power is a shock, but at the same time an extraordinary opportunity.

At the Obama farewell press conference was actually a single “Russian issue”. And the president answered him in detail. He confirmed that he personally warned Vladimir Putin about the consequences of Moscow’s intervention in the American electoral process. He explained that he was not worried about the leaks of compromising evidence, with which nothing could be done, but the possible intervention of hackers in the voting procedure, in the counting of votes. Putin denied the involvement of Russia, but there was no intervention, according to Obama,.

The president said that he was surprised that the Republicans, who criticized him for softness against Russia, now suddenly began to accuse him of excessive rigidity and demand the abolition of sanctions.

No wonder ... According to one completely reliable survey, 37 percent of the republican voters approve Putin. A third of the Republicans is arranged by Vladimir Putin, a former head of the KGB. Ronald Reagan would have rolled over in the coffin.

In their zeal, to refute the conclusions of the CIA, Trump's associates invent conspiracy versions. One of them belongs to the candidate for the post of First Deputy Secretary of State John Bolton. The sites, he claims , hacked someone else “under the false flag”, maybe Obama himself - Russians are not such fools to leave the “Russian trace”.

So for that they left to know and be afraid! Why did Obama needed it? Bolton does not explain this.

The Kremlin reigns rainbow hopes for the abolition of sanctions - this is evident by a number of statements and comments. How justified are they? One hundred percent.

On the one hand, the Magnitsky law is not so easy to cancel even having a majority in both chambers of the Congress. On the other hand, an exception to the sanctions list is carried out on the proposal of the president if a legal entity or an individual "significantly changed its behavior" and obliged to behave well, as well as for reasons of national security. This is a purely technical procedure that no one in America will even notice. It will turn out, as with the amendment of Jackson-Vanik: there seems to be a law, but the president cancels his action from year to year. The pretext for such an abolition may be the need for a joint fight against terrorism and the situation in Syria.

Apparently, anticipating such a turn, the Obama administration recently complemented the sanctions list.

It is difficult to resist, in the end not to quote Kissinger again. He was asked what kind of opinion he was about Putin. Kissinger replied:

This is a character from Dostoevsky. A person with a great sense of internal connection with Russian history, as he understands it. And he is a cold calculator of Russian national interests, as he understands them and in which, as he believes, - perhaps it is fair - there is something unique.

It is still a pity that Kissinger did not name a hero by name. But the compliment in any case turned out to be ambiguous.