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Control. putin s only real leverage is those 100,000 troops on the border. that s why he manufactured this crisis. hoping to pressure even blackmail the u.s. into providing the security guarantees that he wanted. second biden call earlier on the program suggest to me is looking for diplomatic off ramp to get the u.s. to agree to the security guarantees that he wants without having to pay a price and without being able to avoid the threaten u.s. european sanctions that could really damage the fragile russian economy. the problem for the administration is, as we learned seven years ago with the crimean invasion putin can t be trusted. we don t know whether he is bluffing and he doesn t seem inclined to go along with president biden s demand that he first engage in military deescalation. bret: kevin, here is how foreign affairs magazine writes up about moscow. what putin learned from the soviet collapse, moscow has managed to fortify itself for a sustained competition with the united ....
There is a diplomatic effort under way and it is around the minsk agreement. there is pressure on ukraine from the kremlin to agree to talk to the separatist leaders in the donbas area in the east of ukraine, the pro-russian separatist leaders. so where are we on that? i think take half a step back. yesterday we saw president volodymyr zelensky in munich saying that he is open to talking directly with president putin. he s been saying that for some time and president putin hasn t been taking him up on that offer. president putin on friday said that there would be no military deescalation around ukraine until president zelensky talked with those pro-russian separatist leaders in the east of the country, but what is happening on that front, in the east of ukraine the separatist leaders are calling for a civilian evacuation, it is chaotic, it is playing out on russian tv, it is playing out in such a way that it could be used as a manipulation over public ....
Continuing our diplomatic efforts. we are keeping the door open to a diplomatic way forward. that s going to be very hard to happen without military deescalation. it s much more difficult for diplomacy to succeed when guns are firing, tanks are rolling, planes are flying. but, if russia pulls back and pursues diplomacy, we stand ready to do the same thing. meanwhile, our intensive diplomacy with allies and partners continues. i ve been in virtually daily contact with my friend and counterpart, ukraine s foreign minister, and i ve made clear that we ll support any diplomatic efforts by the ukrainian government to reach a ceasefire and withdrawal of russian forces. if there are diplomatic steps that we can take that the ukrainian government believes would be helpful, we are prepared to take them, even as ....
Reasonable path. it s hard to see any path when the bombs are dropping, planes are flying, the tanks a rolling. deescalation, pulling back forces would open a path to diplomacy. we demonstrate clearly in the months leading up to russia aggression, we were prepared to engage russia dip emplomaticall any legitimate security concerns. that remains. tragically, i think we have seen that virtually everything the russian government professed to be concerned about is not really what was at issue. for example, ukraine joining nato. president putin said loudly and clearly and demonstrated by the actions that russia has taken is what this is about, for him, is ....
The kremlin and the elysee palace over the phone call, our 45-minute phone call between president macron and president putin and president macron followed up that call with a phone call to president zelensky for 30 minutes and president macron also spoke with president zelensky late last night, so there is a diplomatic effort underway and it is around the minsk agreement. there is pressure on ukraine from the kremlin to agree to talk to the separatist leaders in the donbas area in the east of ukraine, the pro-russian separatist leaders. so where are we on that? i think take half a step back. yesterday we saw president volodymyr zelensky in munich saying that he is open to talking directly with president putin. he s been saying that for some time and president putin hasn t been taking him up on that offer. president putin on friday said that there would be no military deescalation around ukraine separatist leaders in the east of ....