Do You Think That the Plan Seems to Be Having Any Chance of Making Progress?

The west has not been engaged in a dialogue with russia on european security issues since the days of gobache. I don't think that they think in those terms, we have a situation which should be analyzed at different levels. A major provocation will probably provoke a massive response from Russia. But puddin doesn't have to be told by blinkin about the underside of a major military operation in ucrane. He knows these things better than even western intelligence.