The latest Club Orlov mailout to subscribers arrived this morning. Because of the contractual situation, I won’t copy it all here. But the last paragraph will give you an idea of the essence of why the US asked for this meeting, and why Russia agreed. Dmitry catches the authentic feather in the wind, I think:
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As I have said before, Russophobia is expensive: those who engage in it fail to secure the loyal customer discount. The Eastern Europeans who thought that they had a bright future playing Uncle Sam’s Russophobic lapdogs have brought this lesson upon themselves in the harshest and most painful way possible. America is leaving Eurasia. Say what you will about Biden, but I am pretty sure that he is cognizant of this fact and that he came to Geneva in an attempt to gain some advantage by offering to leave Eurasia voluntarily.
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