[But they promised not to attack us! Treaty of Tilsit 1807. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939.]
Moscow wanted to state inadmissibility of any war with US, Russian delegation says
The Russian delegation hoped that “the United States does not intend to engage in a conflict with Russia using conventional weapons”
Russia intended to declare [the] inadmissibility of any war with the US, not just a nuclear one, in a statement following the Putin-Biden summit in Geneva. This position was expressed by the Russian side at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers in Dushanbe on Wednesday, according to sources in the Russian delegation.
[T]he Russian delegation said that Moscow wanted “to state the inadmissibility of any war with the US, not only a nuclear one, considering the risks of it descending into a nuclear conflict between Russia and the US,” but the parties “so far agreed that it is precisely a nuclear war that was inadmissible.”
Anti-bellum 
I cannot but recall a certain Croseus, an ancestor doubtlessly of Biden, the oracle ambiguously told him that a great empire would fall; little did Croesus know that the oracle was describing the Lydian Empire. Cyrus attacked when Croesus had sent off his troops for the winter and imprisoned him. After setting Croesus atop a pyre, Cyrus ordered the pyre to be lighted.
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