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An Atlantic Council delegation's trip to Kyiv this week highlighted how important additional support is to Ukraine.

On Friday, May 19, the Putin regime's Ministry of Foreign Affairs banned me from entering the Russian Federation.

Is in your interest that ukraine is in nato because nato would be in a position to restrain ukraine. the other more basic issue is to give ukraine reassurance and to basically signal to russians that no matter what you do against ukraine you cannot succeed, you will not gain more territory, you will not eliminate ukraine as an independent sovereign entity and the complicating question is if you put ukraine in nato, what you mean by ukraine? under what you mean by ukraine? under what borders? what kind of territory would nato be committed to defending, what would nato be on the hook to actually...

Become a member at our summit last year in madrid. since then, swede hen a special status meaning they're participating in nato meetings and integrating into our structures. the united states issued bilateral security assurances which fill in -- if you look at the map, swede sen surrounded by nato countries. it is absolutely inconceivable there is any attack or effect against sweden without nato reacting. so, we're a long way. i hope we can finalize the process by then. let me add, this isn't actually a third big strategic mistake that vladimir putin made. he invaded ukraine and sent the clear...

Support ukraine and is very skeptical of what the u.s. is doing. so be sustainable in the medium and long-term, those two things have to be addressed. >> what do you think about that? particularly this issue of the global south. if you saw a article by ashley talis, one of the smartest strategic analysts on asia and he said india is clearly going its own way. it is not becoming a dutiful american ally. it will not side with america in the kind of the -- the race with regard to china. it needs china for trade just as much as it needs america for some security assurances. >> well, there is no qu...