reading each other's turn papers, former minister lavrov was pretty dismissive of secretary blinken's paper submission when it arrived in moscow and seems like we're doing the same thing to what the russians have done. i would say from the perspective that i have, it would be remiss for us not to complain about the russian response. it is not sufficient, it is not something that explains directly what the russians are up to and it certainly doesn't tell us why the troops are there and that's, i think, a major problem, kate. >> i mean, no matter what is being said in public, evelyn, i get the sense you're becoming less and less optimistic about the success of diplomacy at this point. why? >> well, i'll tell you. actually, i'm having mixed feelings about it. i started off pessimistic about, oh, over two weeks ago, about