do, again, is instead of that full scale invasion, they do something like annex the eastern parts of ukraine that they currently occupy. so for the united states, what s complicated here is we don t want the conflict in ukraine. joe biden does not want there to be an escalation in further war inside of europe. with all the different elements of a complicated geopolitical circumstance around the world, never mind the issues at home. at the same time, we can t afford to sacrifice the principle that you cannot invade and annex part of the other country and undermine all of european security. it s finding threading the needle so you can continue diplomatic process, try to create transparency between the u.s. and russian side. one of the benefits of this negotiating team is the russian has spent many hours on the american side of the delegation and the iran talks. you want to try to create some predictability and i do dye log between the u.s. and russia to