ukraine into its orbit. i think in moscow at the moment, similar tough language to what we ve heard in the past. a little bit of uncertainty over what president biden has said, but they are still sticking to their language that they want to see these written answers from the united states about their security proposals, and that s something secretary blinken has said he won t be delivering to the foreign minister of russia peskov in geneva tomorrow. the minor incursion language getting attention. we should point out the president said therein vegas by russia into ukraine would be a disaster for russia. that was the message he was trying to drive home there, too. nic robertson, thank you for that. laura? as christine mentioned at the top of the show, the senate s effort to pass legislation was dead on arrival. they knew it. their attempt to change the 60-vote threshold to pass the built was defeated when two democrats, senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, joined every republican
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from the french president, emmanuel macron, and at the un security council, may offer some answers as to what happens next. mark lobel, bbc news. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov was speaking to journalists earlier today. he stressed once again that moscow does not want war with ukraine, and added that president putin was deciding how to respond to us security proposals to ease tensions in europe. translation: if it depends - on russia, there will be no war, but we will not let them undermine and ignore russian interests. i cannot say for sure if negotiations are over now. as you know, the us and nato have been studying our simple proposals for more than a month, and only the day before yesterday we received answers in western style, that are a bit confusing but rational in minor issues. this is better than nothing, but the main thing for us is to deal
united states and nato to russia s security proposals or demands, depending which way you look at them. russia calls them proposals. and then they can keep talking. from russia s perspective, it s nato and the united states increasing the tensions by the talk of deploying 8,500 or the possibility of deploying 8,500 u.s. troops to bolster nato s eastern allies. so, you know, this is a situation at the moment where from the kremlin s perspective, they are just going to sit tight and continue their military build-up and wait for the other side to back down. this is a situation where every move matters. we re all watching very closely. thank you, nic robertson, sam kiley for your reporting. joining us is max boot, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and columnist for the washington post. max, you have a new op-ed in the post arguing the u.s. can t afford to leave ukraine and europe at putin s mercy. i think some americans are wondering, but how does this impact my l
ukraine never, never, ever becomes member of nato. reporter: privately, diplomats admit there is little chance of that, anyway. but u.s. officials insist formally ruling out nato membership under russian pressure will not happen. however, in pushing back on security proposals that are simply nonstarters for the united states. we will not allow anyone to slam closed nato s open-door policy, which has always been central to the nato alliance. reporter: there have also been clear warnings from the u.s. of tough new sanctions if russia launches another invasion of ukraine. u.s. officials say the unspecified sanctions would go much further than previous ones imposed on russia after its annexation of crimea from ukraine in 2014. and would have an overwhelming impact on the russian economy.