Last week, the next page in the recent history of the Russian-American relations was marked by tightening of sanctions pressure by the US. Obviously, such a decision could not have a favorable effect on the trade, economic and political ties between the superpowers, but it is worth paying attention to the background of the news being under discussion.
According to the Russian and foreign media, we can conclude the Donald Trump was forced in some way to sign the sanctions bill in to a law. As follows from the statement of Trump himself, Congress should be ‘thanked’ for such a situation, which confirms the information about the confrontation between the president and the parliament. However, is it really so?
In the American history, any US president’s policy contradicting interests of the American business represented in Congress was not a favorable condition for being the head of the White House. This is evidenced, for example, by a history of the relationship between the political elites of the United States and Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression, when the government began to establish certain quotas for the industrial sector, distribute markets, establish prices, credit conditions, as well as working hours and wage level. The cultivated areas and livestock were reduced In the agricultural sector. Nonetheless, the US administration and personally President Roosevelt were criticized for their New Deal program as it was too favorable to socialism.
Another equally striking example was the era of John F. Kennedy during the Cold War, when a cause for disagreements between the two branches of the US power was the New Frontiers policy. Requalification of workers at the expense of the federal budget with subsequent tax breaks in favor of private entrepreneurs were provided in the framework of the program, since tax stimulation of the large capitalist sector of the American economy was not crowned with success. The Kennedy administration, in turn, was accused of ‘financial irresponsibility’.
President Trump is a businessman for whom the welfare of the United States is a priority, but he understands that the US president can not be the power monopolist in the state. By tightening sanctions, Trump does not jeopardize the economic successes in the trade sphere between the US and Russia , due to the fact that the trade turnover between the countries is insignificant. Moreover, the outlined economic growth due to the latest successes of the Russian economy can not be positively used in the American interests. Above all, creation of an image of the tense relations in the higher echelons of power among the elites allows Trump to retain simultaneously his electorate fed up with the anti-Russian rhetoric of the previous administrations, and to develop contacts with Moscow. But even tense interstate relations at the highest level will not change the paradigm of the Russian-American ties. Correspondingly, it is difficult to consider the anti-Russian sanctions as something unexpected.
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