Alastair Campbell

The rewritten European text says it will be reconfirmed.

In other words, it is never in doubt, and we're not going to put it in doubt now.

The American version talked about all ambiguities from the last 30 years will be...

The European version says they will be resolved.

The paragraph about the expectation that Russia will not invade neighbors and NATO will not expand further has been deleted.

The suggestion that the Americans should be a mediator between Russia and NATO has been deleted.

Instead, it says there will be a dialogue between Russia and NATO.

It talks about robust rather than reliable security guarantees.

It ups the limit of the Ukrainian forces, which the Americans wanted capped at 600,000 to 800,000, but as the words, in peacetime.

So through the whole thing, and including membership of NATO, it basically says that in peacetime, there can be one set of attitudes, and should Russia ever try to be aggressive again,

then the all guarantees and all bets will be off.

And reading it, what struck me was the extent to which if the Americans really were serious and had been serious about this, I think this would have been the paper in the first place.

Well, in which case, Diane is absolutely right.

And we've just got to stop pretending.

The reference to Nazis has gone, by the way, surprisingly.

Okay.

But what's happened, I think, with this piece of paper, this plan, this counterproposal,

And look, there is a pattern to this.

We've seen it several times.

Now, the war is now going into its fourth winter.