intention of invading ukraine, so forget about that. but what we re looking at right now, you know, this was not, as wendy sherman, the deputy secretary of state said, it wasn t a negotiation. this was the two sides coming together, putting out their positions, which each side snows very well, and the americans are saying, russia, your demand that ukraine and other countries in that region can never be part of nato is a non-starter. it s not going to happen. so let s talk about some things that maybe we could agree on, which would be, you know, limiting military exercises in europe or limiting missiles, medium-range and short-range missiles in europe. maybe we could work on that. but i listened very carefully to the deputy foreign minister.