The summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, intimate enemies? – 07/15/2018

The scene is ready: the presidential palace of Finland sparkles under the sun, and inside you shake hands under the domes and luxurious Monday lamps that are probably both powerful world men, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

The interest is huge because the US President Trump seems to have a strange bond of sympathy with his Russian counterpart, but also because it's the main step of & dquo; A European tour in which before was devoted to despising the policy of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the British Prime Minister, Theresa May as well as to threaten all the countries of the world. NATO.

But also because coinciding with the The first summit between Trump and Putin has brought to light other revelations about the alleged Russian intervention in the US election campaign in 2016.

The meeting has a huge international impact and there are 1,500 accredited journalists but it is doubtful that there are concrete results in the end. It is also unclear whether a relationship that has been going through its worst moments in decades can be relaunched. Whatever happens, Trump will say that it was a success as during the meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, although that it ends with beautiful words but without binding results. 19659003] Helsinki for its part is involved in the summit fever. The faces of the two leaders are seen in many t-shirts and bottles of beer and a bookstore sells "matrioshkas" (Russian dolls) of Putin and Trump.

About 8,500 kilometers from the Finnish capital, Washington, all revolves around one theme: the new charges in the "Rusiagate". Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller on Friday accused 12 Russian agents of hacking the emails of Democrats during the 2016 election campaign. This is the first time that the Russian secret services GRU are directly accused of being responsible for the coup against the Democratic party that was Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton.

The news has fallen like a bomb. And especially a detail of the prosecution: the agents tried to access Clinton 's staff servers around or the same July 27. The same day, Trump said at a press conference on the Clinton scandal: "Russia, if you listen, I hope you can find the 30,000 missing emails."

A few hours before the announcement. In the indictment, Trump complained that investigations made it very difficult for him to cooperate with Moscow. He later rejected any connivance with Russia and accused his predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama, of doing nothing against hacker attacks. And why did not he do it, according to him? "Because I thought that rogue Hillary Clinton was going to win the election, that's why."

The fact that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has laid the charge before the summit with Putin shows once again that Trump and his government are not following the same line with respect to the Russia.

US authorities sell arms to Ukraine, apply sanctions against Moscow, expel Russian diplomats, accuse the Kremlin of human rights violations. But Trump does not really seem to support these measures. Although he says that no one has followed a harsher policy against Moscow, he is constantly undermining the official line, for example by sowing doubt that the United States may recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia.

Trump's advisers had to go out and deny the possibility that the president make concessions to Putin. The US ambbadador to Moscow, Jon Huntsman, said he would be held accountable for his role in the civil wars in Syria and Ukraine, as well as alleged computer attacks against the United States.

It will be very difficult to confirm the veracity of these statements and the results of the meeting if Trump and Putin meet (as planned) alone and then hold a joint press conference. The meeting will begin at local noon

Russia has lowered expectations before the appointment clearly. It would only be a success to resume a normal dialogue, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "Almost every communication channel that has been created in the last 10 years is frozen."

For the Kremlin, it is already a success that the summit is celebrated because it seems that the time of isolation is over. started after the annexation of Crimea. With its intervention in the war in Syria, Russia regained a great international weight

and Putin will not face Barack Obama, who rejected Russia as a regional power, but Trump, who badured that you can imagine being a friend of Russia.

The Russian media's vision of the US president has varied over the months in a well-orchestrated manner from the celebration of his victory to deception and now a certain attitude of disdain. ] March in New York against the summit of presidents. AFP ” observer=”” data-observer-function=”loadLazyImg”/>