Moscow shrinks Trump irritation with Putin

Any analysis of Donald Trump’s current thinking about Russia risks remaining very quickly.

Read too much on an individual tweet, commentary or outside the cuff from the US president and the danger is that your conclusions are contradictory to tomorrow’s tweet, publication or comment without a cuff.

Believe me. I was there.

As today’s edition of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said, “The President of the United States is hot and cold … He changes his mind on key questions as easily as he changes shoes.”

Recently, however, as far as Russia is concerned, it seems that the White House is blowing colder than hot, which explains the title in today’s edition of Moscow Komsomolette: “The Russian-American Cold”.

After Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s most telephone conversation on July 3, their sixth this year – President Trump revealed that the two leaders “make no progress” to end the war in Ukraine.

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

Four days later, President Trump has threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff for each country brought in accordance with BRICSThe group of nations, which includes Russia.

On Tuesday, his disappointment has been glued to some of his strongest language so far: “We get a lot of nonsense thrown to us by Putin if you want to know the truth,” President Trump said at a cabinet meeting.

“He is very enjoyable all the time, but it turns out to be pointless.”

Today I asked for the Kremlin’s reaction.

“We are quite calm about it,” Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told me during a Kremlin conference for journalists.

“Trump’s way of speaking as a whole is quite harsh … We plan to continue our dialogue with Washington to correct our disturbed bilateral relations … We hope that Trump and his team will continue their efforts to restore the peace process in the field of diplomacy.”

The Kremlin was trying, at least to sound diplomatic.

The Russian press? He didn’t even try.

In Komsomolskaya Pravda, political experience has accused Donald Trump of “lack of geopolitical achievements.”

The tabloid Moscow Komsomoletz writes about “President Trump’s mercurial temperament, his tendency to sudden moods and chaotic changes in the direction.”

This week, the edition of arguments and facts made fun of Donald Trump The New America Party of Elon MuskS

“Now every time the US president says” make America the Great again, “he will inadvertently promote Musk’s party,” the document writes.

This is a maritime change from the previously positive reflection in Russia of the Trump administration. Back in March, a political scientist told Izvetia that “America now has more to do with Russia than Washington with Brussels or Kiev.”

In May, Business Daily Kommersant said: “Donald Trump’s position cannot be more advantageous for Moscow.

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

Optimism was understandable. Earlier this year, The White House publicly criticized President Zelenski (Not President Putin) and puts pressure on Kyiv (not Moscow).

The US and Russia have started bilateral conversations to strengthen their relationships.

Moreover, President Trump’s envoy Steve Vikof was a frequent visitor to Russia to talk with President Putin. At one of their meetings, the Kremlin leader gave him a gift to take back to Trump: a portrait of the US president.

It looked as if Moscow and Washington were destined to create a new relationship.

But more than two months have passed since Vitcof’s last visitS And in June, Russia announced that the US had canceled the next round of talks between the two countries aimed at restoring diplomatic missions.

Meanwhile, President Trump seems to be increasingly carved than Russia’s refusal to agree to a complete cessation of fire in Ukraine.

“The Kremlin believes that Trump offers Russia too little, and therefore the continuation of a good quarrel is better than” bad peace “in terms of Russia’s long-term national interests,” Moscow Komsomoletti writes today.

In other words, in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants more than Trump is ready to offer.

More about the territory, more about the discounts from Kiev about the future size of the army of Ukraine, more with regard to the cut of Western stocks from Western weapons to Kiev.

And to borrow Trump, Vladimir Putin clearly believes that he is holding the cards right now and can stay for a better deal.

Is he right? Or is Moscow misinterpreted?

A lot will depend on what President Trump is doing more: the scale of the US future military assistance to Ukraine and whether the White House decides to strengthen sanctions against Russia.

But keep in mind my warning.

And this bright image in Komsomolskaya righteousness from Donald Trump changed his shoes.

Just a week ago, Russian commentators celebrated the US government’s decision to freeze some military assistance to Ukraine.

So, follow close. Not only what Donald Trump says about Russia and Ukraine, but also the action it takes.