Evening with Vladimir Solovyov (№ 419831)

... key point. Fundamental disagreement and misunderstanding of our Americanists and our politicians. Every time we believe that Americans think something like us. So every time we sit down at the negotiating table, then... well, we agreed. And the Americans don't have that. They are pragmatists. And they agree exclusively on the issue that they are discussing. Neither left nor right. And when all of a sudden we do something good for them and we expect them to respond, they don't understand what we're talking about. We need to realize this.