Two American envoys moved between Moscow and Kyiv on Sunday, carrying words from one adversary to the other in the oldest tradition of diplomacy — the messenger who must hold two truths at once. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, figures shaped more by political proximity than diplomatic training, sat first with Putin and then with Zelenskyy, in what the U.S. administration is framing as substantive engagement. Whether this choreography of shuttle diplomacy marks the beginning of a genuine opening or simply the performance of effort remains, as it so often does, the question history has not yet