Russians are famous hosts. Sit down with Russian officials for five minutes and someone will produce tea, water, a plate of something and, if the meeting goes well, a bottle of something stronger. So when Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner took their seats across from Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin’s Senate Palace on Thursday, I noticed what was on the table. Nothing. No water, no coffee, no tea. Not so much as a mint.
In diplomacy, that is not an oversight. The Kremlin protocol office does not forget the water. A bare table is a message, and this one said: this is a working session, not a social call, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
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