it is still useful, but you know, and america is very anxious if you, you know, if you look at stoughton bergs ledger speech that trying to get nato to become part of the confrontation with china. but i think ups and time if washington at the moment does want to relax tension, some logic with russia. then of course, nature is not such a huge useful organization because mean in nature has been the most provocative western organizations. so russia is cuz you're interpreting that as a sign of actually reaching out to moscow. no. but because as i say, i fear that american policy is to uncoordinated for that. partly because you have so many domestic pressures, every american administration is always looking over it shoulder at what the american media will say, what people in congress will say, what people within the democratic party will say. and especially of course, you know, after afghanistan on the one hand, the biden administration does want to reduce american commitments elsewhere to really concentrate on china. but at the same time, of course, the withdraw withdrawn from afghanistan and the

and the few days before the announcements we met with mister stoughton berg and new york. he stressed that nicer had a sincere interest to normalizing relations with russia, so as to de escalate tensions on the european continent. what we weren't particularly surprised by the decision is it all confirms that nicer is uninterested in equal dialogue or joint work. sir dale, i were of added that the nato information bureau and moscow will also be shut down as a result. why? meanwhile, the nato international secretariat has already been notified and the russian foreign ministry statement added that, sir. it is not expecting any shift in relationship with nato in the near future. independent journalist, lincoln revenge, believes nato wants to show his strength, and that won't be a good thing in the situation where essence tis not a new cold war. it is not the end of the relations drop, halted channels, young vassals, for example. so they can still continue talking and they will. but of course, russia needed to show its displeasure at the fact that our diplomats are called intel