radek sikorski, welcome to the show. you said after your meeting with with secretary of state rubio that it was your impression that the united states wanted a lasting peace in, in ukraine. do you mean by that? you got assurances that there would be some security guarantees for ukraine because, after all, that is what has been the problem, the lasting peace part of it. russia has invaded in 2014, invaded in 2022 and potentially could invade again. >> ukraine, remember, already has security guarantees under the budapest memorandum given back in 1994. i think in return for what was then the world's third largest nuclear nuclear stockpile, which the ukrainians handed over to russia. ukraine also has a border treaty with russia that guaranteed the border between two countries. and three years after the war. after the beginning of the invasion, ukraine has defended the great bulk of its territory. the best guarantee for ukraine is the almost million man army, which is manning the foxholes and heroically resisting russian aggr