When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength."
He is well connected with the Saudis; he is one of them,
His main role, his main task, is what Putin assigned him: to get the Americans to lift sanctions pressure. That’s his job,
We had a reach-out from someone who is a go-between between the Russian government and the American government and I presented it,
It was more a general discussion — maybe joint projects in the Arctic. We specifically discussed the Arctic,
I would not want to have unrealistic expectations for the process going forward, but I think joint investments between Russia and the U.S. are now more likely after this meeting than before,
Positive after the Biden administration destroyed all of the communication, destroyed all of the discussion,
There is an understanding that bad relations between Russia and the U.S. actually cost a lot to American business, and there are ways to have productive cooperation benefit both Russia and the U.S