said this entire is a pretempt by the u.s. to strengthen their forces, nato forces in the region close to russia s borders as well. so we re in this sort of situation at the moment where the week long negotiations that we ve just come out of have essentially come to nothing. there has been no progress on russia s core demand which is to, you know, prevent any further expansion of nato. particularly to make sure that ukraine doesn t become part of the western military alliance and now we wait to see what happens next. will there be more talks or will russia draw a line and decide to proceed with whatever military option it may be planning. and all we ve heard from the white house so far is the threat of economic sanctions, which didn t deter vladimir putin in 2014. we ll see how they respond alongside our european allies. thank you matthew. if you ve done an shopping lately, you and i both know