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Gorbachevsi said, and jim baker0 years ago, i would like to hear a lot more about russia annexing crimea, violating one of the principle tenets of the united r nations, you know, that was established, the rules of the game in 1945, and what about talking a little bit more about recognizing parts of georgia as being independent countries? those are the conversations we're not having, and that is a victory for putin's information campaign. >> so you would like to see a sort of more wholesale reframing what is coming to pass ofhere, or what has come t pass. >> exactly. >> i guess i wonder though,...

So i wonder what the reaction to that in ukraine was, and i mean is that, you know, the intent of maybe dropping the country's bid to join the alliance, what kind of reaction do people on the ground have to that? >> i think it was just the opposite. so one of his, when this country has been under a tremendous amount ofry pressure and when you're under pressure, every statement is parsed and there has never been this much attention focused on ukraine except for when zelensky watt at the center of another massive point of interest with the phone call with donald trump. and that factors into a de...

0 story. >> great story. great reporting. thank you. >> that is "all in" on this monday night the rachel maddow show with guest host ale good evening, alex. >> thank you, chris. happy valentine's day, my friend. >> to you as well. >> my heart is warm. >>fr mine, too. and thanks to all of you at us this hour.ng it was february 2014, the autocratic pro-russian ruler of ukraine had just fled the country after being forcedle ou of officeco by pro-democracy street protests. in that confusing aftermath, soldiers began appearing in the southernld ukrainian province o crimea. theai soldiers had no i...