. ch. ch purpose of that meeting yesterday was to try to persuade putin not to invade his neighboring country of ukraine again like he did a few years ago. russia is a dictatorship. assassinated and imprisoned all the opposition leaders that may have posed a threat to him. he s running a criminal-gangster state where his government is merged with organized groups. targeting infrastructure and towns and hospitals but especially in the u.s. with protection from the russian government while they do it. i mean russia is not the good guy here. ukraine is our ally. a democratic country, the largest country in europe, they have been independent for 30 years, 30 years ago this month. not for nothing, we the united states made binding security pledges to ukraine 30 years ago when we persuaded them they should give up thousands of nuclear weapons they were stationed in ukraine. we told them in a binding document, you give up those nuclear weapons and we ll accept some responsibil
Russia is a dictatorship. assassinated and imprisoned all the opposition leaders that may have posed a threat to him. he s running a criminal-gangster state where his government is merged with organized groups. targeting infrastructure and towns and hospitals but especially in the u.s. with protection from the russian government while they do it. i mean russia is not the good guy here. ukraine is our ally. a democratic country, the largest country in europe, they have been independent for 30 years, 30 years ago this month. not for nothing, we the united states made binding security pledges to ukraine 30 years ago