I just finished watching Tucker Carlson’s interview with Sergei Lavrov.

The impression I’m getting is similar to that of a cat or a bear “talking” to a dog. The way Lavrov is talking will communicate nothing to the Americans. They are adrenaline addicts, brought up on fast and hysterical ads and movies. Lavrov’s calm and intellectual approach will make them fall asleep. They are unable to think in full sentences, let alone paragraphs or pages of condensed text. They need it summarised into an emotion-charged sound-bite.

What Lavrov said was that the American belief in the possibility of a limited nuclear war that’s taking place in Europe and not involving America is dangerous and invites catastrophe.

What the Americans will hear is “the Russians are boring, they just talk and don’t have the guts to do anything”.

Lavrov speaks reasonably good English, but he doesn’t speak American. Translated to American, what he said should sound like: “If the nukes start flying, we will make absolutely sure that everything we’ve got hits America first, in order to ensure there’s no America left. We will make absolutely certain that they don’t survive this. Only after all of them are either dead or wishing they were, will we deal with their European poodles. There is absolutely no option where this goes nuclear and America survives in any shape or form”.