Moscow shrugs off by Trump’s annoyance with Putin

Any analysis of the current thinking of Donald Trump about Russia risks very quickly to go out.

Read too much on a individual tweet, messages or comments to the US president’s cuff, and the danger is that your findings will contradict tomorrow’s tweets, post or comment on the subject.

Believe me. I was there.

According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper today: “The US president is blowing hot and cold … It thinks about key issues as easy as shoes changes.”

Recently, when it comes to Russia, the White House seems to have blowing more coldly than hot, which explains the title in today’s edition of the Moscow Komsomelet: “Russian-American chill.”

After the last telephone conversation, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on July 3 – their sixth – President Trump showed that the two leaders “did not make any progress” to end the war in Ukraine.

“I’m not satisfied with this,” he added.

Four days later the president Trump threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on any country agreed with BRICSA group of nations that include Russia.

On Tuesday, his disappointment still boiled with some of his strongest languages: “We get a lot of nonsense thrown at us by Putin if you want to know the truth,” said President Trump at the Cabinet meeting.

“He is constantly good, but it turns out to be meaningless.”

Today I asked the Kremlin’s reaction.

“We are very calm about this,” said Vladimir Putin’s press, Dmitry Peskov at the Kremlin Conference for journalists.

“Trump’s way is usually quite tough … We plan to continue our dialogue with Washington to fix our broken bilateral relations … We hope Trump and his team will continue their efforts to return the peace process to the field of diplomacy.”

The Kremlin tried to at least sound diplomatic.

Russian press? She didn’t even try it.

In Komsomolskaya, the political experts accused Donald Trump of “lack of geopolitical achievements”.

Tabloid Moscow Komsomelet wrote about “Mercury temperament of President Trump, his tendency to sudden moods and chaotic changes.”

The publication of arguments and facts this week mocked Donald Trump New America’s party Elon Musk.

“Now every time the US president says,” make America great again, “he will accidentally promote the Musk Party,” the document said.

This is a change of sea from previously positive coverage in Russia Trump administration. Back in March, the political scientist told Izvesti that “America has more in common with Russia than in Washington with Brussels or Kiev.”

In May, Business Daily Kommersant announced: “Donald Trump’s position may not be more profitable for Moscow.

“He refused to strengthen the sanctions against Russia and confirmed his determination to develop large -scale trade with Russia.”

Optimism was clear. Earlier this year The White House publicly criticized the Zelensky president (not President Putin) and put pressure on Kyiv (not Moscow).

The US and Russia have launched bilateral negotiations to enhance their relations.

Moreover, President Trump’s messenger Steve Witcooff was a frequent visitors to Russia for talks with President Putin. At one of them meetings, the Kremlin leader gave him a gift to return Trump: a portrait of the US president.

Moscow and Washington seemed to be destined to establish new relations.

But more than two months have passed since Last Visit Vitcoof. And in June, Russia announced that the United States had canceled the next round of negotiations between the two countries aimed at restoring diplomatic missions.

Meanwhile, President Trump seems to grow more and more disappointed with Russia’s refusal to agree to a comprehensive ceasefire in Ukraine.

“The Kremlin believes that Trump offers Russia too little, and thus the continuation of the” good quarrel “is better than the” bad peace “in terms of Russia’s long-term national interests,” the Muscovite Komsomelets wrote today.

In other words, Vladimir Putin wants Trump to be offered in Ukraine.

More than the territory, more in terms of concessions from Kiev on the future of the army of Ukraine, is more in terms of reducing Western weapons in Kiev.

And, in order to borrow the Trump expression, Vladimir Putin clearly believes that “he holds the cards” now and can go for the best case.

Is he right? Will Moscow be calculated?

Much will depend on what President Trump is doing further: on the scale of US military assistance in Ukraine and whether the White House will resolve the sanctions against Russia.

But keep in mind my nuance.

And this bright image in Komsomolskaya Pravda, Donald Trump, changes shoes.

Only a week ago, Russian commentators noted the US government’s decision to freeze military assistance to Ukraine.

So follow carefully. Not only what Donald Trump says in Russia and Ukraine, but also the actions he takes.