After the completion of the report from U.S. special investigator Mueller hopes the Russian government on better relations between the President, Trump and Putin. However, in the US, is seen as critical.
In the US election campaign three years ago, promised the then presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly that as President he would “have a very good relationship with Putin”. After Trump has now been relieved by the Mueller report from the suspicion of a conspiratorial co-operation with Russia, could be the way free for a new beginning in the relations between the two countries and the two countries ‘ presidents. However, one of the leading Russia Experts in the United States, a Professor at Georgetown University, Angela Stent, and holds a reboot is “very unlikely”, even if Trump and Putin wanted this.
the main obstacle is the US Congress, so the Stent. The anger over the Russian interference in the presidential election. The Social Media campaign of a Troll factory in St. Petersburg and the Hacker breaking into the Computer of the Democrats has punished the Congress in the past few years, with many of the penalties were decided with an overwhelming majority.
More sanction decisions planned
Russia-expert Stent: “Trump is not in a position to relax sanctions without the consent in Congress.”
“you are now enshrined in law. And once they are law, it is very hard to lift it,” says Stent. “Trump is not even the possibility to lift the sanctions without the consent in Congress.” In Congress, the willingness to loosen any of the sanctions was Zero, says the Russian expert.
on The contrary: In the coming months, further sanctions decisions against Russia are planned. If the Russian government hope to better relationships, underestimate you, was as big in the US, the horror of Russia’s attacks on the presidential election: “Russia has not understood, how shocked many Americans were Trumps electoral victory. For them, it was easier to give Russia the debt on Trump. The Russians will now pay the price.”