green on the world stage. in front of a crowd of his many 3000 people in warsaw, poland, president joe biden renewed his steadfast commitment to the people of ukraine. well in moscow russian president vladimir putin delivered a defiant state of the nation address. his first since launching the invasion of ukraine nearly one year ago. putin repeated the lies that he has been spewing for a year, claiming that the west started the war, which he still refers to only as a, quote, special military operation. the russian president also announced he will stop participating in the new stark treaty which is the sole remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the united states and russia. and warsaw president biden responded to putin s threats to their claim that america and its allies will never back down. one year into this war, put a no longer doubts the strength of our coalition. but he still doubts our conviction. he doubts our staying power. he doubts our continuing to sup
that since the mid 1990s, the union say concept has existed and was indeed certified in the form of a treaty between russia and belarus. but it never really picked up steam. it was never really fully implemented until around 2018, when putin, as we know, had deep revanchist ambitions for all of europe, four years after the annexation of crimea, and the outbreak of an russian-backed and dirty war in the donbas, ukraine. this document, as you mentioned, by the presidential administration itself. this is putin s inner sanctum. this is essentially kind of the white house. and it s not just the presidential administration, but the presidential directorate for crossed border cooperation, which is a rather aurelia name for what it really means, which is, it s russia s ability to protect power into influence operations, if not as in the case of belarus, trying to mount some kind of creeping annexation of annexed or neighbors. so, it s the countries under the purview of that directorate, incl