now to make ukraine a nation, which arguably in some ways it wasn t before, uniting ukraine. he has also given nato a reason to exist. some now feel as this escalates that he may just be the reason that germany moves from this very tortured past, from a past where it was on the wrong side of history and had struggled with leading in any way with military power, moving perhaps into a future that is different. so it s possible that putin ironically perhaps might be achieving just that. there s certainly signs that the position is hardening now. andrey, what do you think it would take for the russian government to deescalate? because as natallya was saying there have been efforts to negotiate between ukraine and russia, the youk neens believe the russians are making no concessions. the americans have held out the prospect of diplomacy. why is it that, you know, even though there does seem some