a military move on ukraine. earlier, i asked dr alina polyakova of the center for european policy analysis in washington and i asked if she saw any sign of a peaceful way out. unfortunately, i think we're in a bit of a paralysis mode where the russian side has made quite egregious and unrealistic demands, the united states and european allies have laid out our concerns about those demands, but still, there doesn't seem to be a compromise across the horizon here. certainly, it's a positive sign that the russians did respond in written form and not public form to the us response to their demands, but unfortunately, it's not yet clear whether the russian side is actually serious about diplomacy. yeah, there's also still an oddity, isn't there, that the us ambassador — sorry, the russian ambassador says the us is fomenting hysteria, and actually, the ukrainian president