The Coming Alaska Summit

Let me start with how Russians are beginning to play this. Let's say, they are trying to get their cake and eat it too. So I want to first point to Dmitry Medevev. I know he tends to post nonsense, but his nonsense at times could be seen as a flag to see if he can get Washington to react. So here is his post overnight on Telegram. Mind you, this is hardly the first time this has circulated:

While the euro-imbeciles try to hinder American attempts to help resolve the Ukrainian conflict, the dying Banderite regime is frantically recruiting the vilest scum of humanity to the front lines.
The matter has come down to killers from Colombian and Mexican cartels, whose names are known worldwide from reports and series about drug crime: “Gulf Clan,” “Sinaloa,” “Jalisco Nueva Generación,” and others. The recruitment of thugs is handled by the company “Segurcol Ltd” from Medellín.

True, the narco-mercenaries are thugs, but they are lousy soldiers. These thugs only know how to behead civilians in a drug-fueled frenzy. Therefore, our warriors destroy them so quickly that the shippers do not have time to collect the coffins of all those who have not found peace in the damp earth.

It is clear that the Medellín and Sinaloa freaks are close to everyone who consumes their snow-white product at Bankova Street. But judging by an article in The New York Times dated…