Konyok, is that Georgian peach wine?

Anyway, I’m an engineer/business type guy, and I have been dealing with some Russian customers lately. And I love them.

The point I was trying to make is that we now have the means to talk, mano y mano, with our Russian counterparts. No need to send our thoughts up through a Senator, to Bush, to the UN, etc, who sends it to Putin, and then back on down on the other side.

And no need for the NYT to send a message to Pravda either.

We can “talk” one on one now, person to person. With no interpreters or filters to get in the way. So let’s do all we can to keep this line of communication open.

We now know that some intelligent Russians are reading what we write here. And some are talking back.

And these are, probably, the kind of people we need to talk with.

Key nodes can cut both ways.