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helping the russian propaganda apparatus to do itsjob. so, it always happens that when they have a domestic problem, they blame the foreigners, and particularly western agencies. that is of course nonsense, but it is what they do. vladimir putin himself on saturday spoke about traitors and about a stab in the back. so he himself put on the table the idea that, you know, his own authority might have a challenge from within. but apart from that, with the west should be doing and is doing, is looking forward now to the knee to the near summit next week, and i think there are three things on the table there. the nato summit in vilnius. 0ne the nato summit in vilnius. one is deterring russia, for as long as it takes, but the other is not allowing this to become a direct nato, russia confrontation. both nato, russia confrontation. both nato and russia have so far been very successful in avoiding that happening, but it is not in the interest of either size for this to become a direct co
organizing against him. let me put it this way, if we know about it, he s going to know about it. it s probably just as well we don t know. so far president biden has let european leaders and other allied counterparts do the talking with putin directly keeping the u.s. at arms length. clearly this is intentional. why do you think that is? we don t want to turn this in a u.s./russia confrontation. that might very much play into putin s distorrented narrative, m and at the end of the day it will be mr. zelenskyy and the legitimate government of ukraine that will have to decide what they are prepared to compromise in order to get this war to stop, in order to get russian forces out of their country. how long can the u.s. stick to this strategy, though? does ending this conflict at some point involve or require a face to face between president biden and president putin, do you think?