william courtney was a special assistant to president bill clinton on russian, ukrainian and even your asian affairs. now. he thinks that wal trumps position on ends in google and ukraine is not the reality on the front lines is quite different . the person, the electronic has made clear that he wants to solve this more. stop the more stop the killer soon. factors even savvy wants that done before, he actually becomes president, but this is not gonna be an easy chat task. what the issue is that right now you create doesn't have enough negotiating leverage, given the way the was for, i'm are russians. forces are making slow as the advances. so present shot are present, let drops, so attribute to fulton not to escalate. it suggests that he's trying to avoid a situation which too much about occurs between russia and ukraine. it's just me to tell her to be a lot of outcomes. are predictions of this war. many of them have been wrong. so i would not want to make a prediction. but it is clear that in the congress of their strong bad person support for it in your credit when the vote under ukr

between shots and fruits and don't want to cain algebra 0 bully of more on this we joined now by william courtney who is an adjunct senior fellow at rand corporation, a level policy think tank. he is also a former us diplomat and he joins us now from washington. d. c. thanks very much for being with us. here on al jazeera, of the simple, how do you view this phone call from schulte says, this is strategic blonde. is that the electronics re election now has cause a lot of services in europe. i think some europeans are concerned. the trump might try to negotiate a solution to the ukraine crisis over the heads of the europeans, not taking into account the views. oh, so we see transfer shoals, for example, reaching out one hopes of a coordinated with other nato allies before making the call. but we do not know search only present to if she receives cause from multiple nato, our leaders that are not coordinated present to function. you can divide and conquer. so this is a unsettling, well that for all over hours and one hopes that for united states. so you're in great britain together transported seni