continent to getting involved if russia does invade ukraine? there is no appetite in getting involved in a conflict with russia. that s the last thing anybody here wants. nato has said that ukraine should make its own choices, whether it joins nato, that s a decision between nato and ukraine, and moscow shouldn t be calling the shots. but that doesn t mean they want to get into some kinetic fight with moscow. in fact a lot of countries here in europe are trying to better relations with russia rather than bring them apart. some of russia s rhetoric is worrying. they do issue a lot of threats. they re saying putin submitted a list of eight demands in this sort of draft treaty, and in them was that nato has to stop expanding eastward, ukraine mustn t be allowed to join nato, all these sort of demands. nato said they don t accept
and i think, look, this is all leading into the january 10th security talks between the u.s. and russia in geneva. i think one of the interesting elements here you is don t get a sense from u.s. officials that they had any sense what have president putin is going to do, right? they know what he wants. in fact, he said it himself. take a listen. translator: we have made it clear that nato s further eastward movement is unacceptable. well, what s not clear here, are we deploying missiles near the u.s. border? no, it was no. it was the usa who came with missiles to our house. they are already at the doorstep of our house is this a redundant requirement not to install anymore missile systems near our home? so eastward expansion of nato, nato weapons systems in kind of eastern-flanked countries. the russians have laid out a draft treaty, i think most of which would be considered a non-starter by the u.s. and nato allies. how does president biden thread
The release a couple of days ago on the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs website of its draft treaties to totally revise the European security architecture - Gilbert Doctorow for Antiwar.com Original