the welcoming majority of u.n. member states are committed to working together on these issues and our actions show that. yet, while more than 100 countries have signed on to a road map to provide food aid to those who need it, and partners across, africa, asia and the europe are working together for the global food systems and russia for months blocked the export of ukraine grain to the world. and russia continues to bomb and seize ukraine farms and silos and lead its wheat fields with land mines and raising cost of food for people everywhere. and while governments around the world are teaming up with international organizations, with the private sector, with philanthropies to end this pandemic and make sure that we re better prepared for the next one, russia is spreading misinformation and disinformation about w.h.o. approved vaccines and fuelling vaccine hesitancy to puts people in all of our countries at greater risk. here is the reality. none of us chose this war. not th
indeed, it must be asked, how has this aggression against ukraine by president putin improve the lives or prospects of a single russian citizen. one man chose this war. one man can end it. because if russia stops fighting, the war ends. if ukraine stops fighting, ukraine ends. that is why we will continue to support ukraine as it defends itself and strengthen its hand to achieve a diplomatic solution on just terms at a negotiating table. as president zelenskyy has said, diplomacy is the ome way to end this war. but diplomacy cannot and must be not used as a cudgel that cuts again the u.n. charter or rewarded russia for violating it. president putin is making his choice. now it is up to all of our
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secretary blinken laid out last week appears to be proceeding exactly as he laid out. we ve seen false flags. we ve seen provocations. we ve seen theatrically staged meetings at the kremlin. we ve seen cyber operations and the list goes on. so where do we go from here? moscow needs to demonstrate that it s serious about diplomacy. russia s actions over the last 48 hours have in fact demonstrated the opposite. if moscow s approach changes, we remain ready to engage. united states and our allies and partners remain open to diplomacy. we are eager to engage to avert what would be a brutal and costly conflict, but as we have said, diplomacy cannot succeed unless russia changes course. as we have said, we are prepared. we are prepared for any
we have two major threats here and a threat from iran that is very serious in terms of its regional line behavior, and we do not have a defense budget that supports the reality that we are facing in the world today. that is the simple truth of it. john: general, do us a favor, we have to jump to another briefing, let s handed off to gillian. gillian: fox news alert, spokesperson at the department of state s briefing reporters they are, let s listen in. russia s actions over the last 48 hours have in fact demonstrated the opposite. if moscow s approach changes, we remain ready to engage. the united states and our allies and partners remain open to diplomacy. we are eager to engage to avert what would be a brutal and costly conflict. but as we have said, diplomacy cannot succeed unless russia changes course. as we have said, we are