With your back to the back

Talking in mid -July to the employees of the Lebedinsky GOK about his meeting with the President of the United States, Vladimir Putin was as follows:

Still, today's American president is not like that, he reacts to the interlocutor, to arguments, and discusses. Even if he doesn’t like something or he does not agree with something, asks questions, reacts to the arguments of the interlocutor, this is important. I think this is positive.

So they say about oligophrenes or autists.

Trump himself described the meeting with Putin in the hyperboles inherent in him, about his conversation by a teta-a-tet with the Russian president, to whom he headed from the other end of a long dining table, spoke nervously and unintelligible. And then it turned out that on the way from Hamburg, Trump personally dictated the text of his son’s statement about his meeting with lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya. The press service of the White House explained that the president "of course, did not dictate - he made his proposals, as any father would make." Given the general interest of the presidents in the elimination of the scandal, it can be assumed that they agreed on their approaches. In any case, from the outside it looks that way.

Next, the expectation of voting in the Congress under the sanctions bill began. There was no doubt that the law would be adopted. On July 25, Donald Trump gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal. "Do you put a veto on the law on sanctions against Russia?" - asked his journalist. “I have not seen him in the final version,” Trump answered. “Congress, if he is negotiating, concludes the worst transactions that I have seen. I am concluding good deals, I don’t conclude bad. But I haven’t seen. I have to look.”

In other words, the president complained that Congress was connecting his hands, depriving the opportunity to enter into political bargaining with Moscow.

On the same day, the lower house, and two days later, the Senate by the vast majority adopted the law. Exactly the next day, July 28, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced counter -sanctions. When asked why the signatures of President Trump did not wait in Moscow, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov answered intricately, but it is clear: “Purely mechanically, in the future, actually automatically and de facto, this bill will take the form of the law, even if the US president does not sign it.”

Peskov meant that in this situation of votes, Congress would easily overcome the presidential veto. But he considers it easier to express himself below his dignity.

Secretary of State Tillerson also did not wait for the president’s decision and published his statement on July 29:

The almost unanimous vote for the law on sanctions in Congress expresses the firm will of the American people who want to see that Russia is taking steps to improve relations with the United States. We hope that cooperation between the two countries on the largest global problems will continue, and the need for sanctions will disappear.

It is impossible not to see that this text is misleading the public. The law on sanctions was not adopted at all in order to encourage Russia to improve relations with the United States, and their cancellation does not depend on cooperation on global problems.

On August 1, a rare case occurred in the State Department: Rex Tilleryson participated in a press briefing at which he developed his thought:

As I pointed out on my first trip to Moscow at a meeting with President Putin and at subsequent meetings, relations are at the lowest point after the Cold War and may become worse. And the question, I believe, is as follows: will they deteriorate or we can keep them in a state of some stability and continue to search for ways to account for mutual interests, paths that will allow us to interact without turning our disagreement into open conflicts?

As an example of such an interaction, Tillerson called an agreement on de -escalation zones in Syria.

On August 2, the president signed the law. At the same time, he did not fail to note that Congress "invades the competence of the executive branch, puts American companies into disadvantage and is damaged by the interests of our European allies." Nevertheless, he signs the law "for the sake of national unity." The following is the literal repetition of the above formula from the Rex Tillerson statement. And finally, the final chord:

I created an amazing company that costs many billions of dollars. To a large extent, for this reason, I was elected. As a president, I can conclude much more profitable transactions with foreign states than Congress .

It looks like Ivan the Bezdomny, who was given the sleeping pill in the clinic: "Well, very good ... you yourself pay for everything. I warned, and there you want!"

On August 6, Sergey Lavrov and Rex Tillerson met in Manila. The Secretary of State did not comment on her, and Lavrov reported to the journalists:

First of all, he was interested (he began with this) the details of the decisions that were forced to have been adopted in response to the adopted law with anti -Russian sanctions in the US Congress. We gave these explanations. Actually, this was done on the basis of an interview with Russian President V.V. Putin TV channel "Russia". Everything was said in detail there, the reasons for the decisions that we made after a long expectation that the United States still will not follow the path of confrontation. But, unfortunately, the Russophobic mood of the Congress members prevented this from coming to come true.

The last phrase contains a PR version of what is happening, which is enthusiastically developing Russian propaganda.

Republicans, united with the Democrats, a united front opposed Donald Trump - a man who was voted by an American voter.

This is a quote from Olga Tukhanina’s commentary on the website of the State Agency of RIA Novosti. In unison with her, film director Karen Shakhnazarov sings with her:

And Trump, when he signed a bill on sanctions, he simply surrendered to the establishment. It was a mistake. He had to take an example from Lenin, who used to conduct a policy against all - and won.

The anti -people ruling circles, the president of the hostage ... Previously, there were "cave anti -communism" and "zoological anti -Sovietism" - now "Russophobia". Apparently, from the point of view of Tukhanina and Shakhnazarov, no one elected members of the congress, they made their way there with a quiet sapa to insert sticks into the wheels of the president and harm Russian-American relations. President Trump thinks exactly the same. He threatens to punish the States, whose representatives in Congress are not in the leg.

The heading of the text of Tukhanina is also remarkable: "Stop offended. Let's offend America ourselves." This is a kind of masterpiece:

It is not necessary to punish America to make it bad in any case. She needs to make her bad so that she does not climb ... The more American politicians have problems on their borders and inside their country, the less they will climb into external affairs.

What are the "ways of interaction"! It is necessary to harm with all your might, to provoke an internal turmoil. Along this path, Moscow, as we know, has even advanced, financing the right -wing party and unfolding massive propaganda.

Against the background of such aggressive rhetoric, the reports that the Tillerson State Department left the funds allocated by Congress to counteract Russian propaganda. We are talking about financing the so -called Global Engagement Center - interdepartmental structure under the auspices of the State Department, designed to unite and coordinate the activities of federal departments of terrorism. In December last year, the functions of the Center were expanded by amendment to the law on defense appropriations: his tasks included the struggle against Russian propaganda outside the United States. The center received $ 60 million for this struggle. Congress allocated about 20 million to fight the propaganda of terrorists.

This money remains unused in September, when the financial year ends, they will return to the federal budget. When asked why the State Department does not spend them, the former senior official of the department replies: in order not to anger Moscow. The touching concern for the nerves of Moscow against the backdrop of calls to harm America, "so as not to climb."