Good evening,
it was a good day today in Riyadh. The key take-aways enumerated below by TASS illustrate the new chapter which the US and Russia have just started.
Bringing back diplomatic staff, creating consultation mechanisms and much more to come.
As things stand now, I expect that soon there will be direct flights between Moscow and New York, but not from Russia to Berlin or Vienna.
The EU commission already stated that the EU will keep its sanctions against Russia even if the US will lift those. And for sure the US will lift its sanction regime which never worked.
Neither was Russia "brought on her knees" by the "sanctions from hell" (see the US-Congress recordings) nor was Russia defeated on the battlefield.
Many US-companies actually never left. And those which did are interested in coming back. But it will be under different auspices.
Russians are fast learners. People on all levels managed very well to adapt to the new circumstances ever since spring 2022. From software to financial transactions, the Russians created their own.
My respects to all those women and men who paid a price, those in the armed forces, pay a heavy one. They simply reconfirmed an old truth: Russians never surrender. And Russian soldiers created facts on the ground which will remain.
And ever since I have moved to Russia I see so many parallels between Russians and Americans. It often makes me smile. And there were smiling faces today in Riyadh. Good night!
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