i'm peter beltran, manager. we're discussing media coverage of ukraine. ah. okay, peter, at the very last 2nd or the 1st part of the program, you want to ask daniel question, please go right ahead. daniel. in before the invasion, zalinski was saying that he was willing to accept that ukraine would not join nato and would effectively be neutral. it wasn't ready to go back to minsk too, but he would have given russia it's most important strategic i demand. and though do you not agree that a potent should have accepted that and declared victory m a government here? if i could fact check you right there, it's come out in the last 3 new cycles. that big german chancellor spoke to zalinski and actually said, you know, you should declare that you do will not become a member of nato and maybe for a certain time period. so i mean in silence. he said no. okay, and this is one of the great miss steps i've got going into this conflict here. so i just wanted is the i'm is one of the throw that out there that there, there was accommodation. go ahead, but we heard him also r

i'm peter beltran, manager, were discussing escalation. ah, ah okay, bruce, i want to go back to you in bath. i mean one of the things, it's very important. i mean, i love to talk about geo politics a lot, but if we, if you don't mind, we could talk a little bit about domestic dip political discourse. this whole affair is, is brought about a nuke, mccarthyism, if you, if you say any, anything that was said on this program, we say in public, i don't, i can't imagine what will happen to you because i've been, i've been completely cancelled out of my entire work on r t on youtube has been deleted. i'm a non person except for a my own platform here because of my opinions here. this is very, very dangerous here. before february 24th hardly any one american knew about ukraine, even fewer could find it. but now that it's a litmus test, go ahead, bruce. yeah, i think that's a really important point. i'm sealing it myself. many my friends are feeling it as well. this new mccarthyism. i think it's the right way to describe it. if you say the wrong t