daniel mcadams, executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity, says western countries that shouldn't be ignoring putin's warnings over there. meddling in ukraine. one thing that's been very consistent this entire time is that president putin has done what he said. he's going to do this, goes back to december when the new documents for a new security architecture, when reduced, etc, etc. he's done what he said he would do, he should be taken seriously. i think it's very clear that the, that the u. s. and it's nato allies are attempting to ramp up support or ramp up the transfer of a weapons to ukraine. they believe their own rhetoric. they believe that russia is bluffing. obviously, the us must know that this is a desperate situation for ukraine. why are they continuous and why more importantly, why is it in any remote way in america's national interests, every provoking a war over the borders of ukraine? no one has answered that question yet. a number of international officials, of course, are more mostly polarity in the world during talks this week, including bushes t