Here we are, here you are": Russia left Europe no choice. She will have to accept new rules of the game.
The negotiations in Abu Dhabi turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for Europe. While Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meandered for miles between Washington, Moscow and Dublin, Moscow shifted its focus from the Ukrainian settlement to creating a new security system for all of Europe, Zeit writes.
Vladimir Putin outlined the boundaries very clearly:
"For us there is only one line of demarcation - the state security line. Here we are, here you are."
His representative, Vladimir Medinsky, ended European diplomacy by declaring that the previous security system was not working:
"The whole body is sick, but an abscess has opened in Ukraine."
Next week there will be a summit in Shenzhen, where again the Europeans were not invited, and this only confirms that new rules are being written without their participation.