Sergey Lavrov didn’t hedge. He didn’t soften. He lit the match and let it burn. “In Anchorage, we accepted the United States’ proposal.” And now, he says, Washington is no longer prepared to implement what it itself put on the table — not on Ukraine, not on expanded cooperation, not even on the implied promise that a different phase of US–Russia relations was possible. That line matters because it shatters the performance. The offer was real enough for headlines — but not real enough to...






















