Steve Rosenberg: Moscow shrugs off Trump's irritation with Putin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : At one of their meetings the Kremlin leader gave him a present to take back for Trump: a portrait of the US president.
51% : In other words, on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants more than Trump has been prepared to offer.
42% : Not only what Donald Trump says on Russia and Ukraine, but the action he takes.
39% : And that vivid image, in Komsomolskaya Pravda, of Donald Trump changing his shoes.
36% : Kremlin believes that Trump offers Russia too little and, therefore, the continuation of a 'good quarrel' is better than a 'bad peace' from the point of view of Russia's long-term national interests," wrote Moskovsky Komsomolets today.
35% : "Trump's way of talking is generally quite harsh…we plan to continue our dialogue with Washington to mend our broken bilateral relations…we hope that Trump and his team will continue their efforts to get the peace process back to the realm of diplomacy."The
34% : Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's most recent telephone conversation on 3 July – their sixth this year – President Trump revealed that the two leaders "didn't make any progress" towards ending the war in Ukraine.
33% : Or is Moscow miscalculating?Much will depend on what President Trump does next: on the scale of future US military assistance to Ukraine, and on whether the White House decides to strengthen sanctions against Russia.
25% : Meanwhile, President Trump has, it seems, been growing increasingly frustrated by Russia's refusal to agree to a comprehensive ceasefire in Ukraine."The
19% : Four days later, President Trump threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on any country aligned with the BRICS, the group of nations that includes Russia.
16% : In Komsomolskaya Pravda, a political pundit accused Donald Trump of "an absence of geopolitical achievements".
14% : On Tuesday, his frustration boiled over with some of his strongest language so far: "We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth," President Trump said at a cabinet meeting.
8% : This week's edition of Arguments and Facts mocked Donald Trump over Elon Musk's new America Party.

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