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Agreements. various pullbacks on forces, mutual ceilings on the forces putin would have near european countries. et cetera. its up to putin whether hes looking for an off ramp or something thats face-saving. as i keep saying, i dont rule out the possibility that he wont find satisfaction like what you were just talking about. some new formula. virtually everything has been tried. i wouldnt be surprised if at some point we increased russian presence in the western hemisphere. having russian bombe...

But that is not his first choice. his first choice is to get this rewriting of the sort of security landscape that he wants. the biden administration is trying to do a combination of deterrence and diplomacy. on the one hand, theyve rallied the west pretty well. theyve gotten the europeans on board. theyve gotten talk of fairly strong sanctions. and as you mentioned, they are also putting in place more military deterrence, actual troops, actual armaments, while at the same time theyve made clear...

Type of an invasion fully to try to take over ukraine or partially to continue to destabilize it and not put it in the orbit of the west or to use all of this for leverage with the united states and the west to find some type of curt is guarantees that he says that he needs. we dont know which one of those it is, but we will know in short order because in the next week the united states is responding to his positions in writing. the british foreign ministers supposed to be visiting lavrov in rus...

Known. russian tanks could come across these frozen farmlands. equally unknown how long the ukrainian army can resist. reporting for sky news, eastern ukraine. >> that report there, bring in admiral james, former supreme allied commander of nato and msnbc chief international security and diplomacy analyst and contributor. admiral, always a pleasure, especially during straight times. you give a straight read. ask you to do the same. will the u.s. give putin a dip marry off ramp and if they do wil...

Major allies in the west would vote to bring ukraine in right now. so theres room to work if he wants to do that. as usual, hes going to -- i probably shouldnt go any further. it will hurt him badly. >> sound like youre offering some way out here, some off ramp. sounds like what it is at least informal assurance that nato is not going to take in ukraine any time in the next few decades and sounds like youre saying we would never put nuclear weapon theres. he also wants us to move our nuclear wea...

Here. the white house told me in the last couple of days theres no appetite for biden and putin face-to-face but what is a different diplomatic off ramp that could be offered to putin to get him to back down? >> you know, i dont think it is going to be a diplomatic off ramp that gets putin to back down. you know, the biden administration has been emphasizing these last weeks strategy that calls for more diplomacy and a posture after-the-fact economic sanctions and it hasnt worked. look, the russ...

Russians are known for being good at chess. putin has taken the first move, and he believes hes put us in a position where we have to respond. we have to respond in a way that gives him, quote, an off ramp or allows him to save face. or he gets something out of it, in terms of a pledge, either, open or covert that we somehow would never allow a free, independent nation to come into -- to nato. so, hes already calculated what we are likely to do. i think what we have to do is then say, well, what...

Tests. but can you envision -- will the president provide america an off ramp to covid and especially for those the unvaccinated because the more we find out from the cdc saying it doesnt -- you are more protected if you already had the virus even if you are unvaccinated. that just came out. i am looking for an answer on an off ramp for americans. a lot of unvaccinated feel like they are being the scapegoats and second class citizens even though i want people to be vaccinated so they are protect...

The washington—based wilson center, to see whether she saw antony blinken�*s remarks as a push for diplomacy. heres what she said. well, i think this is what the united states and its allies have been trying to achieve for the past several months, and especially a concerted effort during the past several weeks, offering moscow an off—ramp. and i think its important to remind viewers that it was russia that started this conflict eight years ago, its russia that has perpetuated by funding an...

From the media that were at war, - that there are soldiers - on the streets, that theres mobilisation going on, - that people are running away. we dont need that panic. theres a lot of posturing going on at the moment, moscow saying natos ignoring its security concerns as it continues its troop build—up on the border. the response from the west is increasingly alarmed and alarming. this is perilous geopolitical terrain, and ukraine is trying to chart a course through it. there may yet be what ...