a ukraine invasion secretary state anthony blanket yesterday held a 90 minute bilateral meeting while there were no breakthroughs on ukraine, the u.s. and russia are on a quote clearer path to understanding each other s concerns. rebecca grant, doctor rebecca grant joins us now pay she s a national security military analyst and president of independent research. i want to get to diplomacy and a moment pray first lemming to set the stage, nato is the largest military alliance putin is obsessed with nato. ukraine is not a member of nato, ukraine is still the last standing sizable land a barrier between the nato countries and russia. but putin also wants it in
continuing to talk it. we need to see more military resolve it order to divert her potent progress right to the question what is the u.s. ready to do? we see the security systems antitank missiles going in. remember, arthel, we have about 150 soldiers to look barney national guard the teams that are in ukraine right now on a training mission. there may be some others. we also have a lot of nato aircraft and u.s. forces in that area. we are involved in this already. we need to see what s the next military options be to help defend ukraine and try to deter putin and convince him it s just not worth it. that is the thing, president putin is provocative, he shrewd, he s pompous. he is not unintelligent. doesn t putin know invading ukraine and invoking a strong allied military response is just not a good idea? i hope he is getting that