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00:00The Europeans say they want a just and lasting peace.
00:04I mean, do you see the European vision as being at odds with the vision of this new administration in Washington?
00:12I think a little bit. And again, I relate this to the education process that the new administration is going through.
00:20I respect the Europeans. They have a long, very long history with Russia.
00:26And they hold Russia at arm's length because they don't trust them.
00:31And I believe their approach is a little bit more realistic than what Washington, D.C. is taking.
00:37But again, I'm hoping that as Washington gets more experienced with dealing with the Russians,
00:43that they will realize that these are people that you have to be very,
00:47very careful with in terms of listening to what their negotiation positions are and to what it is they are actually proposing.
00:55Because if there's a way to twist the words down the road and back out of commitments,
01:01the Russians have honed that to a fine science over the years.
01:04But hopefully we'll get peace out of this. But we're just going to have to wait and see.