Normally I'd post the relevant video, but I'm not going to give any space over to CNN or the demonically insane nut jobs seen on its screen. There is however a link to it below should you wish utterly ruin your day.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks with CNN's Jake Tapper ahead of a crucial meeting between Russia and the US regarding the buildup of Russian troops along the country's border with Ukraine.

Here's a few quotes from all that verbal vomit, so as you don't have to while watching;

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Blinken: - We've made it clear that we will continue to provide and supply Ukraine with defensive military equipment to be able to defend itself.

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"If we're actually going to make progress, we're going to have to see deescalation, Russia pulling back from the threat that it currently poses to Ukraine," - Blinken

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Secretary Blinken on talks with Russia: 1. Any progress on reciprocal basis 2. Nothing happening without Europe 3. Hard to see making actual progress in atmosphere of escalation with a gun to Ukraine's head.

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Blinken: - Russia has repeatedly committed acts of aggression against neighbors: Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine - Fundamental principal of international security is at the stake: one country can't change the borders of another by force.

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Blinken: - one country can't dictate to another it foreign policy and choices including with whom it will associate, one country can't exhort a sphere of influence to subjugate its neighbors.

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.@JakeTapper: "Former Secretary Panetta said what drives Putin is desire to restore the old Soviet Union, do you agree?"- @SecBlinken: I think that's right, That is one of President Putin's objectives and it is to re-exert sphere of influence"

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https://youtu.be/mRGhjdWxN18

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Fox.