The Lavrov letters started before the "massing"Should have laughed them off, Putin was building a massive invasion force on the borders with the Ukraine and requests for dialogue from Lavrov should be taken serious? Like Lavrov, aka Putin, had a history of honesty and sincerity?
and when the massing began it was followed by 2 more letters (Russian redlines)
If we could deal witht the USSR we could also have dealed with Putin
