I know at least one TW reader who’ll love (not) this line from a recent essay by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The United States is an integral part of European civilization. And now the time has probably come to return to Europe, that is, accept the soft European attitude to the world, shaped, inter alia, during the Cold War period not without the participation of America itself.

(And, yes, in this essay Lavrov too notes that the Sochi Declaration rulez.)