point that would produce actual diplomacy? >> the russians don't want to make progress. they are very good at not making progress. when they decide that they want a deal, they know how to make a deal. their diplomats are skilled. skilled at progress, and skilled at not. the reports, yesterday, about progress in the talks with ukraine were interesting, but putin is acting like someone who was all in on total victory. the biden administration people over talking to said that they were not. that the talks are meaningful, and that is what secretary blinken was heard saying, at the beginning of the show. to keep up the military pressure, on russia, by continuing to arm the ukrainians, a lot. i do not know the way the war will move militarily. the ukrainians have a shot at frustrating the russian offensive. and, as you said at the beginning, even succeeding and