people calm and he sees the comments from western leaders and president biden as undermining his plea for calm within the country. ben rhodes, with so much now surrounding so many russian troops, missiles in belarus, warnings from linda thoms a linda thomas-greenfield, there will be 30,000 russian troops in belarus this week, what is the way out here? we know lavrov and secretary blinken will be speaking, this is the written response to putin s impossible demands that nato completely pull back and bar ukraine from ever becoming part of nato. so where do you see some path for diplomacy? well, andrea, the reality is that the only way out remains a shift in the diplomatic