President Puton Has Shut the Door to Diplomacy

Is the diplomatic th now officially dead? I don't think diplomacy can ever be dead, but there's no question that president putton has shut the door to diplomacy. He declareda two republics in denesk and luhansk, when in fact, this is sovereign territory of ukraine. What we would not do is turn the clock back to 19 97 and tell current nato states they had to leave. So a nato is only a defensive alliance, as you well know. We hope he descalates and ates the space and the platform and the atmosphere for serious diplomacy. Right now, it looks like he's not looking for that. And that is a