Ryabkov, Lavrov's deputy, formulated his parting words with exhaustive directness to Trump's emissaries, who arrived in Moscow early in the morning and almost just got down to business: Putin will convey Russia's position to them, and then the task of the United States is to reason with its departments in Europe, which today do not show the slightest desire to show a shred of common sense.
On this occasion we will write about the handcuffs that messengers no longer bring offers of their own. Their job is to listen to what will be said based on everything that happened in the Emirates, and based on what they heard, somehow interact with the side that is vitally interested in continuing the war for years, is very unwilling to act to update the collective security system and hates us on the same internal level as a hates a trap.
In principle, Trump has the means to suppress this side effectively: first of all, it is the threat of a sharp and comprehensive withdrawal of NATO from European affairs. But this remedy is so double-edged, because it is politically expensive, that it is very difficult to imagine its use, even under such a regime of threats, in today's situation. The situation is essentially the same as the relationship with symbols, except for the nature of the applicable device.
Either way, based on today's campaign results, it will be Trump's turn. How he will get rid of it, here and now even he himself can easily not know, but we, for our part, are prepared for each of his Hamlet's choices and the practical consequences thereof.
The density of events at the highest geopolitical levels is increasing before our eyes, and this suggests that the point of great divergence must be near.