Fairbanks, Alaska: Rex Tillerson, the American Secretary of State, yesterday use five minutes in public to finish off the American chairmanship of the Arctic Council. There was not much to suggest it came with a heavy heart. Tillerson’s speech was as indifferent and cool as an icicle in the beard of a rugged Alaskan trapper.
Came, saw and went
Sami breakthrough
Lavrov will a well-founded smile
And while the Americans refused to hand out pictures from the meetings with the Russian Foreign Minister, the Russian MFA willingly distributed pictures of an ever-smiling Lavrov meeting with a somewhat tense Trump.
Insecure future