Ex-US diplomat: Putin wants old empire

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00:00So, Donald Trump has actually said himself that Russia may be dragging its feet.

00:07Is Russia giving the US team the run around?

00:11Russia is doing what Russia wants to do, and that's Vladimir Putin.

00:14And Vladimir Putin has always wanted to have the Soviet Union returned, and certainly looks

00:20at Ukraine and doesn't see a sovereign nation, but instead sees a nation that should fall

00:25under complete territorial control of the Russian Federation as part of what historically

00:32in his mind is the Russian Empire.

00:35So there are just two different perspectives on this.

00:38So yes, I suppose, Leanne, you could say that it's a go around Trump.

00:42It's actually just Vladimir Putin being Vladimir Putin in terms of what he's always espoused.