[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements extraneous material and questions for the record subject to length limitation in the rules. We will begin, mr. Secretary. Thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran, iraq and the use of force. No one doubts that case and solomon was a dangerous terrorist but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes american safer and advances our interest. Weeks later we seen attacks, injured more than 100 servicemembers, then then need to move thousands personal back to the region and remnant of our relationship with iraq and the setback in the fight against isis.
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements extraneous material and questions for the record subject to length limitation in the rules. We will begin, mr. Secretary. Thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago we invited you to testify about american policy towards iran, iraq and the use of force. No one doubts that case and solomon was a dangerous terrorist but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes american safer and advances our interest. Weeks later we seen attacks, injured more than 100 servicemembers, then then need to move thousands personal back to the region and remnant of our relationship with iraq and the setback in the fight against isis. I ran again pushing headlo
Actual control over crimea, for these 10 years, the president , the Ukrainian Military, and our friends from abroad spoke their word this week. Formats, even more analytics, even more important topics, even more top ones guests, foreign experts, inclusion from abroad. About ukraine, the world, the front, society, and also feedback, you can express your opinion at any time of the day with the help of a telephone survey, turn on and turn on, the verdict with serhii rudenko, every weekday from 20 to 22 at espresso. We continue the project, razom beraber, a joint project of the tv channel and the tv channel. Ttr is with you Khrystyna Yatskiv and ayder muzhdabayev, as well as skender bariev, head of the crimean tatar resource center, member of the myjalis of the crimean tatar people, as noted this week there was a lot of talk about crimea, and very aptly, the president actually remarked, and the forum itself is nicely named, on february 26, 2014, the war began in crimea. Volodymyr zelenskyy
Say that western troops cannot be in ukraine, because it will mean further escalation. But some of them, for example, the Prime Minister of estonia, kaja kallas, said that we should not rule out such a possibility. What is your opinion on this matter, given that you are one of the best in the world in the field of security and foreign policy, and what advice would you give to the president of the United States of america on this matter, if any . His adviser. I dont often agree with president macron, but im happy to say that this time i did. I must note that we are in the midst of the president ial Election Campaign and think the chances of the Biden Administration saying they agree with macron are zero. It touches on a fundamental question about the overall response of the us and the west to the russian invasion two years ago. Its obvious that. We couldnt stop the russians from attacking, in fact, id say we didnt even try very hard, one of the ways that we could have acted in addition
Introductory. Why is ukraine important to the United States of america, if it is important at all. I believe it is very important, and since 1945, the key National Interest of the United States has been peace and stability in europe. We have come through the cold war and we really have great prospects for achieving these goals. However, due to russias desire to reproduce russian empire, and although ukraine is not a member of nato,. Ukraines security is vital to the rest of the european continent, and therefore to the United States. You know that george bush proposed to admit ukraine to nato in april 2008 at the bucharest nato summit. And frankly, if our french and german friends agreed to this, then maybe we could avoid invasions in 2014 and 2022. Okay, lets talk about the recent statement of the president. Macron that we should not rule out the possibility that in at some point in history, western troops may be stationed in ukraine. The administration of President Joe Biden has alrea