while ukraine is not a member of nato, the international ministry alliance has been a key player and it's ongoing conflicts with russia. michael malice, a former senior security policy analyst of the us actually defend for he believed that was washington's decision to break the principle of nato's non expansion towards russia. it's actually the united states was the one who was leading this effort, going back to the clinton administration to go against an agreement that bill clinton gave to, to, to, to russia. that it would not seek to expand. but all the while it was. and now we're seeing that nato is looking for a new agenda. and we saw just very recently in their closing statements up there now and not only including the arctic, but also china as something to keep an eye on. and russia has, had, had made it clear this latest last december, in, in, in statements to the united states, united states, i don't think the europeans would have done what they, what has now occurred if it weren't for the united states and the neo cons with neoconservatives within the u. s. government pushin