Posted on 12/12/2021 9:54:36 AM PST by EBH
Sergei Lavrov backs out of meeting with Bennett and Lapid amid Ukraine tensions and delicate Iran talks; Israeli sources say visit officially postponed
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov canceled on Friday a planned trip to Israel and the region, during which he had been slated to meet with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog.
Lavrov had been scheduled to meet with the Israeli officials on Sunday and Monday, before meetings with Palestinian, Algerian, and Moroccan leaders, according to Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
He had been expected to attend the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum in Marrakesh, Morocco as well.
Israeli officials who spoke to The Times of Israel did not know why Lavrov canceled the trip, pointing instead to Russian reports that cited “personal reasons.” They stressed that it was officially postponed, though a new date has yet to be announced.
The cancellation comes as indirect talks between Iran and the United States over the future of the 2015 nuclear deal continue in Vienna. The last round ended on Thursday, and the next round has yet to be announced. Iran’s nuclear program was sure to be a focus of the meetings between Lavrov and Israel’s leaders. Little progress has been seen so far, with Western leaders expressing frustration at Iran’s positions.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
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There are lots of moving pieces while the US citizen is still sleeping with covid...
To me, it feels more like 1914 than it does 1939.
Many moving pieces, many treaties and agreements (hopefully not a lot of “secret treaties”). I think it’s complex and that trouble is inevitable. I consistently say that our involvement in WWI was a mistake. Kaiser Wilhelm was a little bit of a nut, but if Germany had won WWI, I think the 20th century would have worked out a lot better. Our involvement was (IMO) a mistake that helped tilt the war to a bad result.
Interesting cancellation.
That is what I thought, especially with the report that a BUK was reported to be moved to the Ukraine border a little over 6 hours ago?
Our adversaries see Biden as weak and recognize a window of opportunity when they see one. They will not fail to take full advantage of it.
We will be “living in interesting times” in 2022.
IMHO the mistake in WW1 was not going all the way to Berlin, as Pershing wanted, and taking out the Prussian officer corps altogether. Would have saved 40 million lives, twenty years down the road.
Looks like biden, Xi and putin have divided the world already..
Joe Biden to me is a traitor..
https://rumble.com/vqmst3-traitor-joe-biden.html
Some **** is about to go down, and Russia doesn't want to look like they were in on it.
Hi.
Winter starts in nine days, and the steps of the Ukraine are really nasty this time of year.
You can ask the German 8th Army about that.
Oh, wait nevermind.
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Looks like biden, Xi and putin have divided the world already..
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Half for Xi and half for Putin. Zero for Brandon.
Winter starts in nine days
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As energy starved Europe knows. They also know who controls the flow of a lot of it.
They’ll tell him.later, he’s occupied sniffing slave girls hair..
Maybe Putin’s suppose to draw attention away from Taiwan until our stupid ‘gender weirdo’ Generals move their attention to Ukraine... Then boom - the Chinese take Taiwan over the Christmas holidays...
Or they coordinate their moves against Ukraine and Taiwan around the same time. If so it will likely be right after the Olympics are over.
Either way I think you see a valid connection between the two objectives.
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