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00:00Yeah, and I mean, we were just speaking to our guests earlier on and discussing how perhaps
00:05that stems from the fact that Russia is doing, by all accounts, better on the battlefield
00:10than it has been for quite some time and that there's presumably very little appetite to
00:17pull back at this stage.
00:19Well, so far, this administration has applied considerable pressure to Ukraine to get President
00:26Zelensky to the table.
00:28That included a cutoff of intelligence sharing with the Ukrainian military, which was essential,
00:35really, really important for Ukraine to be able to prosecute the war using that intelligence.
00:41And then also a temporary cutoff of security assistance that also showed the Ukrainians
00:46that if they did not accede to the demands of this administration, that potentially all
00:51of their remaining security assistance from the United States would be jeopardized.
00:55However, no such leverage has been applied to Russia.
00:59There were sanctions in place, there remains considerable sanctions in place from the European
01:05Union and from the United States, but nothing additional has been put on the table by the
01:10current US administration to compel Vladimir Putin to negotiate in good faith.
01:15So in the absence of that, I don't see how Putin backs off from his maximalist aims.