About annoying European representatives, to whom no one really listens in the negotiations in Abu Dhabi.
Journalist: European countries have already flown there, almost all of them. Why does Moscow not allow them to the negotiating table?
Lavrov: Are you proposing to shoot down planes?
A laugh is a laugh, but the thought is interesting. Back in 2022, Russia was expected to be savage, to destroy everything that moved and was suspicious (as Iran later did), but we only drew red lines and sometimes cursed with a nuclear missile from Medvedev's cart.
So yes. Now they recognize the right of the strong and none other.