And so it happened that on the 18th of February in the year of Our Lord of 2025, the United States and the Russian top negotiators met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a 4-and-a-half-hour meeting that has restarted the bilateral diplomatic relations after the dark years of the Joe Biden regime.
As we get (limited) access to the content of the discussions, we are amazed at how childish the Ukrainian and European leaders were. Because, as children, they imagine the whole world revolves around them, as they seem incapable of grasping a larger reality.
The Rubio-Lavrov (and teams) talks were not about ending the war in Ukraine. That war is an important topic, for sure, but a detail in the macroscopic US-Russia bilateral relations that both Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin are interested in restoring and expanding.
Read: Saudi Arabia Confirms It Will Host Trump-Putin Summit – Zelensky Complains He Was Not Invited
Some of the issues upon which Lavrov and Rubio agreed:
• Create a consultation mechanism to overcome “irritants” in US-Russia relations.
• Appoint high-level teams to begin work on a Ukrainian settlement.
• Cooperate on issues of common geopolitical interests.
• Cooperate on economic opportunities that may arise after the end of the Ukrainian conflict.
• Take steps necessary to normalize the work of diplomatic missions.
US State Department:
“A call and meeting between Russia and the US are not enough for a ‘lasting peace’, but an important step forward was taken in Riyadh.”
For the Russians, there were the presence of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.
The US team consisted of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
I’ve written about how the MSM – shall we call them the USAID media? – has pivoted from their previous ‘it will never happen’ stance on the US-Russia talks.
Now, their narrative is ‘it’s taking too long’.
So, in this sense, Bloomberg is reporting that Presidents Trump and Putin are going to meet next week in Riyadh – but this has already been denied by the Kremlin, and everyone seems to agree it’s too soon to get all the issues ironed out before the top guys meet.
The winds of peace are blowing strong.
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