The “Spirit of Anchorage” Is Evaporating: Expert Explains Why the Negotiations Went Nowhere

Political strategist Mikhail Sheitelman explained why, according to Sergey Lavrov, the “spirit of Anchorage” is evaporating, and assessed what is actually happening with the peace negotiations, reports Politeka.

He spoke about this on his blog.

The expert recalled that in Soviet times many people used to buy vodka from taxi drivers. When you opened the bottle, you would immediately smell the vodka, but over time the smell became weaker and weaker because it was diluted. In the same way, he says, the Russians have diluted the “spirit of Anchorage” with the bombing of Ukraine, mass killings, war crimes, support for Iran and other enemies of the United States, and so on.

“Negotiations have indeed dematerialized somewhere along with the spirit of Anchorage. Another round of trilateral negotiations between Russia, the United States, and Ukraine was supposed to begin in Abu Dhabi. Well, fine, it didn’t work out in Abu Dhabi. We all understand why. There’s a war there. But it seems to me that if people are truly meeting and have serious relations, the fact that Abu Dhabi burned down wouldn’t stop them from meeting in Geneva, in Istanbul, or anywhere else. That’s if the relationship is serious,” Sheitelman comments.

According to the expert, if a girl and a boy have a serious relationship and agree to meet at the “Abu Dhabi” restaurant but it burns down, nothing would stop them from going to the “Geneva” or “Istanbul” restaurant instead. But if the girl wants to break up with the boy, or vice versa, he notes, the reaction would be: “The Abu Dhabi restaurant burned down, so the meeting is canceled.”

“You know, Witkoff and Kushner don’t really care where to fly. They have their own plane. Just tell them: ‘A little to the right toward Abu Dhabi, a little to the left toward Istanbul.’ But they didn’t arrive. They didn’t arrive. And that means none of this is real. In reality, all these stories about negotiations—how unfortunate it is that they were supposedly moving forward somewhere… They weren’t going anywhere,” Sheitelman concludes.

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