MOSCOW—Russia’s top diplomat said Wednesday that relations with the United States are now even worse than during Cold War times because of a lack of mutual respect. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow stands ready to normalize ties with Washington but that the United States should stop posturing like a “sovereign” while rallying its allies against Russia and China. Lavrov said if the United States shuns a mutually respectful dialogue on the basis of a balance of interests, “we would live in conditions of a Cold War or worse.” “During the Cold War, the tensions were flying high, and risky crisis situations often emerged, but there was also a mutual respect,” Lavrov said in an interview with the head of the Rossiya Segodnya state news agency, Dmitry Kiselyov, who hosts a weekly news program on Russian state television interview. “It seems to me there is a deficit of it …