in fact, using it for ukraine, that hope is, of course, the rationale is that if the u. s. has major assets in this country, then it's going to be most more falls coming with giving support. and as you heard zalinski, they're saying there were questions as to whether that support would be, for example, buying weapons still from the u. s. is ukraine still going to get access to us weapons even if those us weapons, all bio, for example, other other nato countries. so there are a whole host of questions that needs to be sorted out, but this is really being seen as a is very important indeed, if indeed there is going to be any initial, even a initial move towards a differential piece plan. also saying that it is really important to recognize visual, forget that it was president preaching himself. often we go news of this push of this deal. being a big pushed by the americans on minerals. the ukraine president, preaching himself has reached out to trump and civil handle is new as potentially interested in our minerals too. and of course, none of this will come to fruition whatso

ukraine, a you one. the difference is that the u. s. one had less critical language when it comes to russia, special military operations and ukraine, and demanded to be swift. and to the complex. and the 12th resolution from the ukraine and you actually are best, it's still, we're fast to the conflict of this so called full scale invasion and demand immediate and unconditional withdrawal of russian troops. the general assembly should take people to role in determining the basis for the just and last piece in ukraine and in utah, as well as it stands in pacific on a team of all states. as it's liam message hi to voting russian and busted out to the un receiving event, that he actually just those costing that votes not to be deceived. you mean should political issue no less panic is felt in a number of european capitals where all these years, they don't totally help the key of click and covered up its crimes, but also not should rest of phobia spread on fruits and fabrications about the goals and objectives of a special military operation

is that he deserves the cycle. so, you know, it's not only its position on the ukraine conflict that the new u. s. administration is reconsidering. the trump team has a very different vision on the mazda of spending that mix up the federal budget veteran us congressman ron paul, speaking on going underground and said revelations about the scale of us. the idea activities aren't covered by the new department of government efficiency or shocking, but not necessarily a surprise as washington has been abusing its control of the world's reserve current. so you can watch the full episode tried the day on r t. for now though, here's a short preview. what's your understanding of the scale of waste of us public money uh, as revealed by you on must, could judge. even though for years decades i've been talking about this, etc, would lead to a disaster. where it was finally revealed more detailed, it's still even with by anticipation. it's still rather shocking at no way. you know how much trouble we're facing it when i looked at the employees of the usa id is still shocking. but i'm not surprised at all. i

the, the show of unity comes at a critical time for ukraine and it's europe and allies. the u. s. is threatening to pull, it's the court for keith and has less the landscape out of peace talks with russia to read for european leaders guaranteeing ukraine security is high on the agenda. this includes you membership, european commission, president ursula funder lion, said ukraine. it may be able to join the block ahead of schedule. i would even say ukraine. narrow space process if they continue at that speed and at that quantity, perhaps they could be earlier than 2030. so thank you very much for giving the impulse. and let's work hard on all sides really to keep the momentum of the 24 leaders from the g 7 group of industrialized nations including trump, then held virtual tox zalinski, announced that an economic deal with the white house in the works. and he made this direct appeal to the us. thank you very much, president tom, we would really like to hear from you because all of our people will allow us, our families. how worry ward will that be support from america? will america be t

and the truth is that's how it has to be. ukraine is nothing but a proxy of the u. s. against russia. let's be very clear. this is not a war brush against ukraine. it's a war of russia against the collective west led by the united states. so basically in the end, it will be the us who can make peace with flesh if it's not native. so it seems to me that that is not an inner problem for you. i spoke with a uh, you know, team to be to be talking to rush and mr. zalinski, not healthy though. and he says that they quote polite dialogue between law school and washington irks him. it does beg the question though. why does or perhaps he, he's been alive to have a say in diplomatic affairs of other countries for so long. but know when i'm going to use the term when big boys are talking, he's feeling less start. is he just going to have to get on board burrow and granite? yes, of course. and if i were zalinski, i would read my history. i would learned about a guy named d. m and his brother in south vietnam who were discarded when they no longer met the purposes of the united st

u. s. outlined for ukraine is paying buckets debts by allowing access to the country is rare. earth metals in munich, vladimir zalinski fund, a creative way to justify washington's the month or millions. those 3 she is, we met with our american colleagues. we have had a lot of meetings and i am very happy about it. we had a good conversation with president from you, and we received an offer to invest and ukraine's critical minerals that was discussed extensively. and i said that we need to protect your brain and our resources. if we're speaking pragmatically and not just about the security of your, um, although i believe that the security of europe is 1st and foremost when we talk about protecting our resources to keep so that they don't get caught in the hands of an occupying russia and their allies, if it is necessary to protect pulmonary holes in such a way to non heidi to, to are putting your and this guy to the teeth. yeah. you give them a bunch of 6 things, not a do of 6 things. you give them attack them. she gave them tanks because they, they will fight. remind may not didn't. they

u. s. is making progress toward peace and ukraine. russia looks up to your young peacekeepers the i'm so you can do the in berlin. welcome to our program. the man expected to be germany's next chancellor previous. matt says he wants to get to work forming a government right away. arguing the world won't wait. that's us is conservative cd you see us, you block. we'll start former talk for will talks rather with the most likely coalition partner the social democratic party next week. but even if he's able to quickly form a governing coalition, that's his partners might make it difficult for him to fulfill some of his campaign promise, some of the fruits these maps promises change is on the way. but you need to form a government 1st and the available populace. half beckett's, the biggest majority would be a coalition with the file, right? a f d o alternative for gemini, which came in seconds. but that's a red line map says he won't cross your list. these up, we must deprive david's breeding ground with bible and go, i'm not interested in solutions losing it because he is not the soul says a of

from european leaders, 2 of the things to point out here about the potential feature of ukraine is the fact that the u. s. has continued to state that it was access to the rad minerals, or metals that may be available in ukraine is a form of payment for $1.00 of the big things of dollars is spent on the country over the last few years. and also donald trump saying that russia should have never been kicked out to the g 7. it shouldn't become, so didn't become the g 7 again. but we thought response from that for russian, which is clearly in the world and a defense of focus at the moment saying actually you know what, the g 7, the g 8, that's not what's important. the feature is in the g 20 and not multi polarity will that we've seen russia really trying to help flourish over the last few years within the bricks nation. so for russia, perhaps not so interested about being invited back into the so called elite group. it moves to be paul to a much for the community. the g. 20 it says is the feature or take correspond that charlotte depends a lot of the thank you. well, as leaders take on a global security con

u. s. has reported a threatened ukraine. is it shutting off access to eli and must this is darlene to satellite network unless you have signs of proposed resource extraction deal. donald trump has said he's literally sick. a lot of marriage. zalinski is attempts to back out of the lucrative agreements according to the us president. he f o is america big time. so we're gonna either sign a deal or there's going to be a lot of problems with them. so we're going to sign a deal to get security because we have to do that. we're spending our treasure. i've been watching him negotiate with no card says no cards add, you get sick of it. you just get sick of it. and i've had it. and he then made a deal with us for rivers and things man who knows what rivers is worth. so you know, but at least it's something and who knows what else who is, who knows? they even have it. but we made a deal with the river and the secretary of treasury, a very good guy actually went there and they couldn't even come close to get a good deal done. and frankly,

u. s. is making progress toward peace and ukraine. the russia will accept your p and peacekeepers will hear more from his remarks. the obviously, usually in berlin.

ukraine having an election. so, the question is, who among the external players will support to lensky further? if let's say the u. s. refuses to support ukraine and leaves at only 2 europe, then there is a chance that ukraine and its current state will not even make it to autumn. for just before we go, a bit of detail and operate can use this out. so an agent to vladimir putin says that tomorrow's meeting in riyadh is aimed watching out details on how to begin pace volts over the war and ukraine. now we know that the meeting will be biological strictly between the high level dedications from moscow on washington. we do have a pass and flying to rad right now, so she will be bringing us overlay just as it comes in. and those are a few of the stories that we're across this busy monday. we'll be back in about 2 minutes with all of our light to see them. the during the 2nd will pull underground power military organizations in poland, occupied by german troops, as well as in the bordering regions of bella, ros. we're united into the so called home on a 50, but i couldn't figure out the, put it as a center or would that

ukraine having an election. so, the question is, who among the external players will support to lensky further? if let's say the u. s. refuses to support ukraine and leaves it only to europe, then there is a chance that ukraine and its current state will not even make it to autumn. well, russia has requested a meeting of the un security council because the decade is paul. since the body adopted a resolution looking for peace in the eastern region of ukraine up system. and the french representatives became self proclaimed republic slipped. and that's going to hans on the 24th of february we had launched it's large scale invasion of ukraine, file 18 view, and charter and international law. i recall that russia had spent some 8 years repeating its support for the minutes of agreements to which it is a signatory, and which was supported by this councils. resolution 2202 in launching its war of aggression against ukraine. russia alone took the decision to cause the misc agreements to failure to fail. it chose to put an end to dialogue, negotiation. it shows war for those who are puzzled about why the admin scream is fail

:00;00] the welcome to cross the bullhorn is were all things are considered on peter lavelle trump's ukraine initiative? is it real and what is next? is the u. s. a europe rift for real? or is it merely kabuki theater as differently? are these serious policies or trumps personal preferences? to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess george, send me while we in budapest, he's a pod cast where the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow we have marks level that he's an international relations and security analyst. all right, gentleman cross type roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want, and i always appreciate it. all right, let's start with mark here in, in moscow. would beginning to get some of the outlines of what the so called uh trump, ukraine piece initiative is um, it was very controversial. would be tags that said in a, on this europe and trip about basically nato membership is off the table for ukraine. the us will not commit troops. any european troops under the flag of nato will not have article 5 protection. and now we're going through this. absolutely absurd, ridiculous,

ukraine having an election. the question is, who among the external players will support to lensky further? if let's say the u. s. refuses to support ukraine and leaves at only 2 europe. then there is a chance that ukraine and its current state will not even make it to autumn. and to the middle east, now let's see. do i have boss combined has been killed? and then the idea of drove the strike on a car in solving lebanon of the attack took place on monday morning, and the city will see dawn and comes despite an ongoing ceasefire between the eas roll and bay root. with all the details. here was archie, steve sweeney. around 11 o'clock this morning. it is writing for instruct, struck a call here in the city old sit on a southern lebanon tony river. now you can see the remnants of the call behind me completely destroyed. we know that there are a number of casualties according to some media. one of the people that was killed in the vehicle was a senior pick up from how my see how the city of resistance organization is. well, it appears to be escalating. it's addressing that we're being a number of full names on a tax

u. s. is running out of patience with ukraine as top white house officials slammed zalinski for refusing to have a dialogue with washington and moscow. us national security advisor mike walter pointed out donald trump's frustration was the landscape behavior. the president, trump, is obviously very frustrated right now with present zelinski. the fact that i that he hasn't come to the table that he hasn't been willing to take this opportunity that we have offered. i think he eventually we'll get to that point and i hope so. very quickly, but present trump is as we made clear to our russian counterparts. and i want to make clear today he's focused on stop in the fighting and moving forward. and we can argue all day long about what's happened in the past. the more on the story now we're doing live in the studio by on us to see of a large enough on us to see. yeah. can you tell us a little bit about why the ukrainian leaders in such hot water with the white house? well, as you can see in the most recent space, donald trump doesn't even mention zalinski and leads that to hit support in this. and

is 0. the u. s. president donald trump says ukraine can forget about joining nato in remarks made of the 1st cabinet meeting of his administration. comments. com is ukranian president without him, is it ask is expected in washington this friday to sign a major mineral deal with donald trump? i'll do there is charles profit as intuitive with more will yakima slips, that was ukraine's lee. this is it's a framework agreement and there is still more tools needed on us security guarantees present to the motion with a void. this deal could be a great success, or it could pos, quietly. the big success depends on our conversation with president trump. zalinski, hopes us ukraine, minerals deal will secure support from the us president. often the ukrainian leader rejected the 1st us draft because of what he says, we're missing security guarantees. trump called him a dictator unemployed ukraine was responsible for starting the war. so let's get you scheduled to travel to washington on friday and sign the deal. but questions remain over what security guarantees to us is offering. trump said on wednesday that eu

sarah flounder is told us arms smuggling from ukraine is an open secret and it's coming at the expense of american tax payers. u. s. equipment goes into ukraine and by nightfall it's on the market. so in the world market, everyone knows about it wouldn't cover every kind of media report, it's been factually proved. it's still an enormous profit to us military corporations that are providing. so they're all for this war because war is profit for them and more is enormous expense. it's really stolen from the resources we need right here in the us. and unfortunately, a democrat and republican vote these military appropriations to nato enter this war. ukraine has no ability to continue this war one day on its own. it types using us military expertise, us satellite recognizance and targeting us equipment, of course funding at every level to keep the economy of a float, which is just literally a show of itself. so the 1st and the biggest step is turn off the equipment, turn off the money and it can be very, very quickly resolved. but without that, the war continues. and donald trump knows that his administration knows i

ukraine. one's security guaranteeing is from the u. s. before it enters any piece towards with russia also coming up in britain and across europe. free speech i fear is in retreat, vice president vance lamb. your opinion need is for running and see it all their own voters. plus how much analysis, which of these rarely hostages it's due to release on saturday. the 3 man were abducted from the same keyboards on october 7, 2223. the other one told me that people welcome to the program ukraine's president village. immerse landscape is met the us, vice president j. the vance. i mean signs of growing strain and us ukrainian relations for longer to accept the munich security conference, the landscape called for a real and guaranteed peace in the wake of the war between russia and ukraine. and for his boss, 80 vance said the us was aiming to achieve what he called a doable piece in ukraine. but the meeting comes out of difficult moment. this week, us officials suggested that ukraine should seats territory to russia and abandon it's nato and visio

ukraine and the u. s. has been dealt another blow . president donald trump is double down and to ukraine. rhetoric saying the country needs to come to the negotiating table as despite borrowing ukraine's leadership from earlier talks with russia. i've had very good talks with put and i've had not such good talks with ukraine, they don't have any cards, but they play a tough but we're not. we're not gonna let this continue. this is worse to have. it would have never happened if i were president, but it did happen so i got stuck with it and the whole world is stuck with it. and right now you have a country that has it cities, they look like demolition sites. those beautiful towers, those 1000 year old golden domes, that was so beautiful the most beautiful in the world. they say they're all in smithereens. millions of people are killed. i think far more people than anyone understands. and we have people that better get to the table, get it ended, which helps comments come us as administrator and pushes to sign a controversial raf manuals agreement discussions ongoing and the painting and capital between the us

ukraine. u. s. a. i d is the world's largest humanitarian provider. now it's future hangs in the balance with donald trump's proclaimed america, fixed policy run by a bunch of radical we're getting them out and we're getting them out. states up in 1961 us a id is funded by the us government and had a budget with around $40000000.00 in 2023 less than one percent of the total state are a bunch of it's responsible for aiden development in strategically important countries all those and conflicts and works in around 120 nations. funding a range of initiatives from feels hospitals to contraceptives. h i v aids treatment, clearing land, mines, energy security, finding mel nutrition and giving people access to clean water. in 2023, most of its funding went to ukraine, the ethiopia jordan, the democratic republic of congo and somalia. a trump pause, a foreign aid for 90 days when he took off us. and some of us, a id programs have already been forced to close the doors, like this healthcare seemed to supporting transgender people in south africa. i've been com

it does feel as if ukraine's biggest toner is biggest sponsor, the u. s. it's not happy with, it's not the mirror zalinski on his stalling of any peace talks and not what's shown quite starkly. want it, but ukraine wasn't invited to these piece talks or the beginning of them in re yeah . last week i was quite a snob. yeah, exactly. as you just said, a kid wasn't invited to the piece stokes and reacts and you know, they were much anticipated. it was the 1st time oscar and washington got together after 3 years of silence between the 2 nuclear powers. and the talks actually helped to lay the foundation for future relations. go to do marco rubio, particularly emphasize the fundamental importance of each country being guided by as national interest. these national interest of course, will not always coincide, it is very important to regulate. these discrepancies the conversation was a very useful portion. we not only listened, but also heard each other. and i have reason to believe that the american side has begun to better understand our position. so i came awa

is u. s. embassy told us this may be assigned the last legitimate, legitimate official body. and ukraine has lost support for zalinski to it is a big show that does it actually does his face, but he might lose all his power soon. and the problem and today is the old gentleman body and the print government that can send to you. it's so more i can continue to those issues was the russian federation with the united states, as well as the cabinet of printer servers when you train, which is being appointed by the palm of the plaintiffs was a problem and for presidential public until the once due to the computer to cover them. so we're kind of say the what, what is happening today? the wes, this one is the last, these last these trying to go against the west today when expression the expression in washington. and a lot of the leaves are be fed by that and also so they are showing also their political so called support for the warranty or no support. they don't care about democracy. plan has no democracy in the last 10 years that has total dictatorship for the last 3 years after the war began.

says about the welcome to cross dog bullhorn is where all things are considered on peter lavelle. trump's ukraine initiative is a real and what is next is the u. s. a. europe rift for real, or is it merely kabuki theater as differently? are these serious policies or trumps personal preferences? they discuss these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess george, send me while we in budapest, he's a pod cast where the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow we have marks level that he's an international relations and security analyst. all right, gentlemen, cross type roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it. all right, let's start with mark you.

ukraine, keith kellogg. i'm president. blood of me is the lensky, the deal would give the u. s. revenue from so if you claims mining industries and resources to make up for aid providers over the course of 83 years of conflict. as an inside ski has cooled, the latest round of talks and key of extensive and positive now seem as normal today. we also had a lot of international activities with general kellogg, a meetings that restores who we need strong agreements, the united states agreements that worked for the work. i gave instructions to which swift fleet and very sensibly economy and security must always go hand in hand and the details of the agreements matter, the bits that they are structured the bit to the results. meanwhile, the ground russian forces of launch be new to tax and northeastern ukraine. at least 8 people have been injured and a russian onto the we strike on the city of slab beyond. it's not just the lights as the series of strikes on civilian infrastructure and they've done yet. scrooge and emergency responders are at the scene that now the 2nd final day of t

the welcome to cross type bullhorn is we're all things are considered on peter lavelle . trump's ukraine initiative is a real and what is next? is the u. s. a europe rift for real? or is it merely kabuki theater as differently? are these serious policies or trumps personal preferences? to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess george, send me while we in budapest, he's a pod cast where the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow we have marks level that he's an international relations and security analyst. all right, gentleman cross type roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want, and i always appreciate it. let's start with mark here and in moscow would beginning to get some of the outlines of what the so called uh, trump, ukraine piece initiative is because it was very controversial would be tags that said in a, on this european trip about basically nato membership is off the table for ukraine, the us will not commit troops. any european troops under the flag of nato will not have article 5 protection. and now we're going through this. absolutely absurd, ridiculous, rare earth

ground the the welcome to cross the bullhorn is were all things are considered on peter lavelle. trump's ukraine initiative is a real and what is next? is the u. s. a europe rift for real? or is it merely kabuki theater as differently? are these serious policies or trumps personal preferences? to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, george samuel. we in budapest, he's a pod cast where the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow we have marks level that he's an international relations and security analyst. all right, gentleman cross type roles in effect, that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate it. all right, let's start with mark.

washington, considering that 8 for ukraine is according to trump, us to spend $350.00 cent in dollars in that support for ukraine. or what i don't understand. i mean, the u. s. has been ukraine's biggest backer for so many years. don't think this seems like an example of ukraine, biting the hand that feeds it well, you know, is the last case. frustration actually seems to have pushed him to the edge because you know, he's being well side line. he hasn't been invited to re add. uh, washington's policy is changing towards keeps on us top officials and now actually hitting the back of the lensky openly. actually quoting his behavior, unacceptable, as there needs to be a deep appreciation for what the american people, what the american taxpayer, what president trump did in his 1st term and what we've done sense. so some of the rhetoric coming out of key, frankly, and ins, insults to president trump were unacceptable. and so you said yesterday made a lot of news, bad mouth, and trump not a good idea, or is the landscape? what's the, what's the thought process here? well look, i mean, presence on sky, his country wouldn't exist without the generosity of the unite

u. s. is not even neutral, u. s. is a more likely to take the position of the fuser of the aggressor of russia, and it's quite filtering. but luckily, unlike you up ukraine woke up quite some time ago. yes. for the rest of the world for our european partners. this is and you information that yes, the full of things can be this way. but alcohol, it takes us back. and there, there is no more uh, world of, i don't know, you can said they use a base or agreement base and so on and so forth. for us as you bring. and we are shocked. the situation is very, very serious. but we need to play with the cards we have. yes, i'll bet it may be already back to the wall, but we need to make the best out of the situation. okay, and it's kelly, i want to, i want to bring in david again because it's clear to me from the last 4 years that donald trump was in office in the 4 weeks he's been in office this time. but he doesn't like ukraine. he doesn't like zelinski, can you drill down on that? because, i mean, even if you get back to when he was supposed to elected in 2016, he was critical of you cried. what is i mean? and it was cool. so part of his impeachment in 2019, tell

they don't believe in democracy there, which is really and then you look at ukraine. 90 percent of there's what they're independent media is funded by the u. s. government. i mean this is what i find. this is the manufacturing of consent and if we can get rid of that, and i, i want to give it, have tipped to margaret populace movements on the left and the right. we're being crushed by this organization and they're massive budgets here that getting rid of that will let democratic views bloom. this was talks and this was poison tyler as well. i say get what we've expect. mean, it's more shock and not so much for the international, which is, you know, of course, like you said logic, i really knew that this was the sort of the deep state. uh, you know, military intelligence in, excuse me, military intelligence, industrial complex slush fund. what i think its shocking is the domestic split. i mean, you're talking about like basically funding political funding, right. all righty. so all of these suppose that mainstream media organizations in the outlets that were absolutely assaulting trump certainly assaulting any sort of any nascent movement aga

is this our friends presidency menu? my call has to be amazing. donald trump, at the white house, the u. s. president says he sees no problem with european troops as peacekeepers in ukraine. i'm that he says, letting me a push and will accept. this is the 3rd anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine was marked by a meeting of european leaders and keith, who placed billions more dollars of support in president minister lensky says a just and lasting peace is needed. is there any managers pressing on whether it's offensive across the occupied westbank? it has been underway for more than a month. it's a nation secretary general. the says he is gravely concerned by the escalating violence is really forces are conducting raids and come back to you for the 2nd consecutive day. they're targeting palestinian homes and they're bulldozers destroying streets. okay, let's take a look at the damage. the israel's military assault has caused in the janine refugee camp. a 120 palestine in homes have been completely destroyed. about $530.00 homes and public facilities have been partially destroyed across the, to cut them notions comes across all 3 of those refugee camps. more than 400

condition now all eyes off on what is palestine and prisoners will be freed to again, we do not know exactly when it's might happen. the u. s. has are a part of life threatens ukraine with shutting off access to eli must star lang satellite network unless kia of science proposed resource extraction deal. donald trump is said he's literally sick of flooding. resilience gives attempts to back out of the lucrative agreement. according to the vice president key of o as america, big time. so we're going to either sign a deal or is going to be a lot of problems with them. so we're going to sign a deal to get security because we have to do that. we're spending our treasure, i've been watching him negotiate with no card says no cards add, you get sick of it. you just get sick of it and i've had it. and he then made a deal with us for forever and savings. man, who knows what river is worth, so you know, but at least it's something and who knows what else who is, who knows? they even have it. but we made a deal with the river and the secretary of treasury, a very good guy actually went there us and they couldn't even come close to get a good deal done. and frankly, i wish he

is about so much. u. s. military aid going to ukraine has the self induced stance somewhat. i think that there's no real sense that he's self when he's done, but we do remember the date events. he's not speaking independently. now. he is representing donald trump here. and this is something you definitely get from all of the members of the trump in registration. they're always very quick to refer to to donald trump is, is, is the man behind everything. um, but change events when he was here a year ago and he was still a us senate sir. uh, was talking about um, well, from his point of view that the united states simply could not uh, justify the, the amount of funding that was going to ukraine. and the dates of defense, industrial complex could not sustain the volume of you, munitions, and other weapons that were going to ukraine. and that to be on the basis of that, that, that had to reduce the position. now stated by the us administration, is that it's up to the europeans to take over the lion's share of providing the weapons and financial support to the great news, which of

ukraine's sovereign territory. crime may is still sovereign territory of ukraine, even on the state department website. you can still find this wild claim that just doesn't correspond to reality, that the u. s. is, does not and will not recognize, cry me a crime is democratic decision to become part of russia, which the website calls an annexation. right? but there's also another big take away from what the us secretary of defense said, because this also ties into another thing that the us said that the or, or rather that russia is that it was one of its goals in the military operation to prevent ukraine from being becoming part of nato and the secretary defense just said that this idea that ukraine might get nato membership is not going to be on the table for any sort of peace negotiation. the united states does not believe that nato membership for ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable european and non european troops. if these troops are deployed as peacekeepers to ukraine, at any point, they should be deployed as part of a non need omission. and they should not be covered under article 5. there also must be ro