False and contradictory

The press of the presidents of the United States and Russia paid the press disproportionately. She took place not just “in the fields” of the “summit of the“ twenty ”, but outside of it. This is similar to the Rapalsky Treaty concluded by Soviet Russia and Weimar Germany in April 1922 during the work of the Genoese Peace Conference. An agreement signed by two states that found themselves in international isolation.

The only difference is that the United States voluntarily abandoned the role of the world leader, on their own initiative contrasted itself with the international community in such radical issues as freedom of trade, climate change and migration. While the European Union and Japan have reached a historical free trade agreement, and the two largest trading partners in America, China and Mexico, are negotiating a similar agreement, the US president screams that the whole world is robbing America and going to build a wall on the Mexican border.

At the meeting at the closed doors, the chairman of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker tried to explain to Donald Trump that free trade agreements are “not just a purchase-sales”: “Japanese companies are already ensured by the employment of half a million people in Europe. According to our assessment, this agreement will increase our exports to Japan by 20 billion euros. Every billionaire will provide 14 thousand working workers places, take up arithmetic. "

But the US President is not up to arithmetic. He has his own ancient ideas about international trade. Washington is preparing to increase tariffs for steel imports. This step can provoke a US trade war with Europe. Junker warned the EU’s readiness to accept countermeasures. According to The New York Times, one of these measures may be an increase in duties on American whiskey, which will inevitably create additional problems for American agriculture.

Russia was in isolation not of its own free will, but due to its actions - and is now trying to pass sanctions for the "hidden form" of protectionism. Vladimir Putin tried to inspire this thought to the Germans in his recent article for the Handelsblatt newspaper.

In these conditions, the meeting of Putin and Trump wore the shade of the summit of the unjustly offended. She did not have a agreed agenda, and not a single piece of paper lay before the presidents. Many with hope perceived the Warsaw speech of Trump, in which he accused Russia of "destabilizing actions in Ukraine and other places" and supporting the hostiles of the United States and the entire Western civilization of regimes, thereby indicating the framework of the upcoming meeting. But it turned out that the speaker does not connect one with the other and for him the "great honor" to meet with the president of the destabilizing power.

"Did Trump explain the words he said in Poland?" - the journalists who were present during the conversation Sergey Lavrov asked. “I didn’t talk about this,” he answered. “Believe Lavrov,” the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov called journalists. “I do not work for Tillerson.”

Lavrov called the atmosphere of the meeting "constructive", Tillerson - " very constructive ." Lavrov said that the presidents are “moved by the national interests of their countries and see them primarily in looking for mutually beneficial agreements, and not try to play any confrontation scenarios and create problems out of the blue.” Tillerson - that "we must find a way to move forward."

Differences begins. First of all, they relate to cybervzlomes in order to influence the American electoral process. On the eve of the Hamburg summit, the Kremlin press service spread a statement in which Russian accusations were called "slanderous insinuations" - they say, they were "aggressively untwisted" the democrats, "trying to discredit the elected president." The US President fully agrees with this opinion. About Russian intervention, he said in Warsaw, "no one knows for sure." Well, in Hamburg, according to him , everyone only says that the “shameful” refusal of the democrats to cooperate with intelligence and the FBI in the investigation of hacks.

“Of course, President Trump also mentioned that some circles still inflate the topic of Russian intervention in the American elections, although they cannot prove it,” Sergei Lavrov told reporters. “US President Trump said that he had heard the clear statements of Russian President Putin that this was not true and that the Russian leadership did not interfere in these elections. He said that he was accepting these statements.”

Rex Tillerson sets out this part of the conversation in a completely different way: “The president opened a meeting with President Putin Putin’s concern of the concern of the American people regarding the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. They had a tough and long conversation on this topic. The president was returning to the topic of Russian intervention more than once. President Putin denied such an intervention, as I believe, he did in the past. But I think the presidents - I think correctly - I think correct We focused on how to move forward.

At the same time, the Secretary of State adds that President Trump acts with an eye on the Congress, which is now being considered a bill on sanctions against Russia. In other words, Trump, as I already did in a conversation with Lavrov, complained to Putin: they say, I believe you, but here is a congress ...

The result of the discussion about cyber surgery is paradoxical, but not more than the whole logic of Trump. “We agreed,” said Tillerson, “to continue the interaction and discussion on how to enlist the obligation of the Russian government not to plan and not to carry out such an intervention in the future, including in the affairs of other countries.” Russia says that it has not intervened, but promises not to intervene anymore. It was decided to “move forward” with the help of a joint working group, which, according to Tillerson, will vigilantly monitor what is happening on the Internet and who is responsible for this. In fact, why not entrust monitoring the party suspected of hacks.

The leader of the Democrats in the Senate Chuck Schumer called the statements of Trump and Tillerson about Russian cyberosis "shameful". In his opinion, attaching the same importance to the conclusions of intelligence and the assurances of Putin is a "malicious violation of official duties." And the former National Intelligence Director James Clapper said that there is no evidence of anyone else's intervention, but Russia intervened "aggressively and efficiently."

The difference in the interpretations of the content of the conversation is so great that Atlantic magazine called it "Rasomon Sammit", recalling the famous film by Akira Kurosava, where each character sets out his version of the same event.

But the most important thing is, of course, the comments of the meeting participants themselves. "Rex and I had a grandiose meeting with President Putin yesterday," Donald Trump said and erupted with a whole clip of tweet. One of them says : “I twice pressed President Putin very much about Russian intervention in our elections. He zealously denied this. I already expressed my opinion ...” In another : “Putin and I discussed the creation of a closed cyber security unit, so that the pre -election hacks and many other bad things will be under control ...” And two more - again about the intrigues of the democrats that interfered with the investigation. Brokes, because, apparently, they themselves hacked their servers.

In the commentary of Vladimir Putin, it is easy to detect some deviation from previous statements. It is said about Russia in the third person, as if on behalf of an independent arbitrator: "Our position is well known, I reproduced it. There is no reason to believe that Russia has interfered in the electoral process of the United States." Not "did not interfere," but "there is no reason to believe that it intervened." Further: "It seems to me that he accepted this for information and agreed. But in fact, as he reacted to this, you better ask him." And finally: "It seemed to me that he was satisfied with these answers."

So he “took note” or was satisfied with the explanations of the Russian side, did it consider the question exhausted? It seems that Trump himself does not know.