crimea. ukraine has been the focus of russia and the soviet union for so many reasons and decades. one week from today they face in geneva for talks. will that make any difference? i certainly hope so. the russians remind everyone, published their own draft treaties. they wrote them themselves. they didn t negotiate them with anybody. they wrote them themselves and said president biden signed this treaty, and nato, sign this treaty. that s not usually the way negotiations work. most certainly not when i was in the government working with russians. that said, they re on the table and the biden administration has responded. nato has responded. the ocs also will meet to discuss these issues. and if putin is serious, there s actually some important issues that could be discussed regarding enhancement of european security. we just don t know if he s serious or whether the treaties are ultimatums that can t be met that gives a pretext for