The dangerous liaisons of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

This binary construction, effective with the voters of Trump, broke on a rock, Monday, July 16th. "No one was probably as tough as me on Russia" had he assured in April. A sentence that curiously resonated in the presidential palace of Helsinki.

The long-awaited meeting by Donald Trump with his counterpart Vladimir Putin has been translated into a show of force, but at the expense of an American president clearly poorly prepared for the exercise and willing to sacrifice some of the institutions of his country to please his interlocutor.

Devastating press conference

In this bad reality TV sequence, Donald Trump was reduced to a role of stooges. Validating without the slightest qualms the icy denials of the Russian president, about interferences in the 2016 presidential campaign that had devoted. Seeing the cap at the mention, by the master of the Kremlin, the files on which the latter expected a rapprochement between Washington and Moscow, on its terms.

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Against the advice of the judiciary and intelligence services of his country, Donald Trump shows since November 8, 2016 unable to recognize the slightest Russian interference in an election won over the wire, thanks to a difference of one just over seventy thousand votes in three decisive American states. We can understand the intimate springs, the fear of an illegitimate lawsuit that underlies many of the criticism of the late President in politics and in a particularly unconventional way. The problem for Donald Trump is that this psychological blockage now weighs on the whole relationship with Russia.

The summit of the devastating press conference that marked the end of the meeting with Vladimir Putin was without doubtful when Donald Trump felt that he did not see " any reason to believe" in this interference, whereas his counterpart immediately gave him one, asserting that he had his preference "because he spoke of bringing the relationship between the United States and Russia back to normal. "

A premonitory warning

The devastating effect on the credibility of the United States President at the summit Helsinki has been magnified by the days that preceded it, marked by its aggressive declarations against the historic allies of the United States at the annual NATO meeting in Brussels, as well as during a visit to London. On the eve of his meeting with his Russian counterpart, Donald Trump had again ranked the European Union among "enemies" of Washington, because of commercial practices described as unfair, even advising the Prime Minister Theresa May, according to her confidences, to drag the EU to court.

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The American strategic vision published in December, which bears the initials of the President of the United States, contained a precautionary warning. Describing Russia as a "1945" revisionist power, this political testament of the Second National Security Adviser, General HR McMaster, detailed a Russian desire to "cut " Washington [ses] allies and [ses] partners " and " weaken transatlantic unity ". With the help of Donald Trump as decisive as it is desperate, this desire seems to be expanding every day.

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