asymmetric activities as well. as you say, as he spoke, the ministry of defense put out all those videos so everyone understands, right, what their actions are, putin was very clear today, his demand to nato and the united states have not been met. here is another thing he said. it is already clear that the fundamental russian concerns were ignored. we have not seen adequate consideration for our three key demands regarding nato expansion. the renunsiation of a deployment near the russian border and the return of the blog s military infrastructure and europe to the state of 1997 when the russian nato finding act was signed. he is saying the return of the infrastructure to europe to the state of 1997. i just want to be clear. he says that standing in effect to a that to member who said that russia s security demand were reasonableagrees
i think it was a few thing that helped. it was definitely his renunsiation of palestinian statehood. that part of the larger swing to the right in the final few days after the re-election polls were conducted. yesterday on election day, there was a particularly sordid text that went around from his likud party telling voters that the arabs were coming out in droves to the polls and were being bussed in by leftist organization. his party almosted appealed to racism to get their voters out. and that was something else in the end that i think did drive people to the polls. in terms of palestinian statehood, i m sure he ll be under pressure to walk this back and say that was only a campaign slogan and i m not actually committed to it. i think it s hard to walk that back. the palestinian certainly have taken this to heart. of course netanyahu for the past six years has not really been a strong proponent of talk with palestinians anyway. when you talk to palestinian officials over the pa
that s why i ve been hearing the kind of skepticism i have today from administration officials. one u.s. official telling me there s quote a grudge recognition you can t ignore the deal, but that doesn t mean we ll ultimately accept the terms. on the day senators were going to start voting on authorizing force against syria, secretary john kerry will instead go to geneva to talk peace with his russian counterpart. president obama will take a hard look at it. but it has to be swift. it has to be real. it has to be verifiable. it cannot be a delaying tactic. turning russia s proposal into a reality is already facing its first hurdles. russia says it would be unacceptable to blame the syrian regime for last month s chemical attack and insists any resolution must come with a renunsiation of force by the u.s. translator: you can t really ask syria or any other country to disarm unilaterally while military force against it is being contemplated.
resolution must come with a renunsiation of force by the u.s. translator: you can t really ask syria or any other country to disarm unilaterally while military force against it is being contemplated. they say that will orange strengthen diplomacy. nothing focuses the mind like the pros peck of a hang. looming over the negotiations, deep distrust that the syrians are truly committed to giving up their chemical weapons for good and that russia is committed to making them keep their word. when you see the plane loads of russian arms flying into damascus on a daily basis, tons and tons, when you see the russian veto time after time of any resolution in the security council, i think is ample reason to to be skeptical. but practical obstacles to ridding syria of chemical weapons may be even more imposing than the diplomatic.
do not euthanize. we know candidate in dutch is candidot. my late grandmother would smack me upside the head for that prenunsiation, i m sure. i have been watching dutch news videos and reading translations all day. because the dutch are mad at us. they are not a people given to getting mad over nothing. they are mad at us right now because of rick santorum. he s been saying a thing on the campaign trail about the dutch, right wing watch posted video of him saying it. it got fact checked by the washington post s fact checker with be picked up in the dutch press and the thing rick santorum is saying about dutch people has become an issue in their national politics. this was the headline on buzzfeed yesterday. santorum royals dutch politics, which almost sounds dirty.