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up their defense sector, and the idea here is for that to be a bridge to nato membership. since they re not getting into nato now, what the western nations can do is signal to moscow that support for ukraine is going to continue to flow, and that therefore, even if it s not part of the collective defense agreement that it is a de facto member of this western community. zelenskyy also got a commitment from western nations here in vilneas, that they are going to begin training on f-16s as early as next month. the big question is who is going to provide the f-16s. no country has stepped up to say they will be the first country to hand over aircraft. didn t we already start training pilots in the u.s.? that s a good question. there was a test run in arizona where a couple of ukrainian pilots were put through exercises to test out how long it would take for them to get up
how russia gets brought back into the international community, particularly into the western community. obviously, has relations with some non-aligned countries, china and india, but doesn t have those with europe at moment. richard, i watched the events unfold last weekend. a little optimism bias was creeping into the analysis, perhaps, particularly here. you know, you don t have to look too far back, look what happened to yugoslavia or egypt, we didn t get a whole lot better. now that we ve had a few days, and i think there is a more sober assessment of what might happen to putin, who may well double down to try to prove he is still in power, and we ve seen the pictures of him wandering around with his minister of defense, what does this mean, do you think, now that we ve had a few days for the ukraine effort? do you see any impact at all on this counteroffensive that the ukrainians have launched and are