yeah, look, it s come as we should have this phone conversation. the whole scenario with the russian troop buildup is a situation putin has created. he s putting pressure on the united states to have the initial conversation with president biden back in september, it s his decision to have this now. he s given the united states a set of demands. while there is this whole emergency they have to talk out and the action doesn t begin for about 10 or 12 days in geneva, let s look at the big picture. putin thinks nato has been overstepping its bounds for decades now. he looks at his predecessor, boris yeltsin, and the breakup of the soviet union, and thinks that was a mistake. ukraine, which was part of the