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Nabila ramdani, a french algerianjournalist and broadcaster, vincent ni is china affairs correspondent with the guardian. he is here in the studio with me. welcome to all of you. good to have your company today on dateline. lets begin if we may, ned, with this question of the sort of phony war stage we seem to be at at the moment with ukraine. the west appears to be playing russia at its own game in the last few weeks. propaganda strikes, some sabre rattling. mobilising troops from the united st...

The fires been burning out of control for several hours. there was attempt to go, too, to hit -- um -- toxic waste storage also in kyiv. there was a gas pipeline in kharkiv that was hit, as well. it seem that is vladimir putin is desperate. he sees that there is going to be no easy military victory, let alone a special operation, as he has called it. so, he is going -- i think he is going to call the west bluff by causing a humongous flow of refugees towards europe, to where people beg him -- we...

The death by 1,000 cuts. and you can imagine he was testing natos resolve, natos unity, by starting small to some degree, and then you might say that the u.s. and nato called that bluff and said, no, for that relatively small step, were going to respond in kind, and then ramp up. that was part of president bidens message today, if russia moves further. this is quite a dangerous game of poker, if you want to call it that, or chicken, that is playing out here with very real consequences ahead for ...

About to happen will be felt far and wide around the world. we are getting indications that the presidents strategy to call putins bluff, sanction him until he turns all of those tanks around and head back to russia hasnt worked. >> sean: its not going to work, peter. by backing off the energy independence policies he inheritied, 74% of the american people including me do not want one boot on the ground or involvement. the problem is the rhetoric that putin used, you have to look at the history ...

He annexed crimea from eastern ukraine, and we heard the word sanctions, sanctions. you have to understand the impact of these so-called sanctions on putin look at the list of the oligarchs in forbes. the list is growing longer and fatter. >> its interesting given the fact you are a legendary chess player and you made a point to say putin is no chess player. how so? >> because in chess you have 100% available information about the pieces and resources of your opponent and you cannot bluff. putin...

About the approach of russia is adopting because in essence this convoy could have been dispatched a week ago but it wasnt. it convoy could have been dispatched a week ago but it wasnt.— week ago but it wasnt. it might tell us there _ week ago but it wasnt. it might tell us there is _ week ago but it wasnt. it might tell us there is not _ week ago but it wasnt. it might tell us there is not complete - week ago but it wasnt. it might l tell us there is not complete unity within_ tell us there i...

Domestic audience consumption. maybe it will be painful on russia, but we are not willing to go all the way on economic sanctions. again, another case of vladimir putin calling president bidens bluff. frankly, i dont know where he. peer peer that is something that should scare all of us. >> todd: it certainly does not just president bidens bluff but european leaders as well. every nation in this world needs to step up to the plate at this moment. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> thank y...

Have been_ channelled. not to say many people have been debating on certain whether— have been debating on certain whether this was a bluff, despite the fact— whether this was a bluff, despite the fact there were 190,000 troops mobilised _ the fact there were 190,000 troops mobilised on the borders and still many— mobilised on the borders and still many people who thought maybe putin had limited intentions to try and claim _ had limited intentions to try and claim those breakaway separatis...

Have been killed by ukraine rebels sympathetic to russia . biden administration is still holding out hope for a diplomatic solution but the prospect of war seems likely. >> i dont believe it is a bluff. i believe he assembled the right kind of things you need. >> until we know the tanks are rolling, planes are flying and aggression has full begun. well do everything we can to prevent them, but were prepared either way. trey: president biden said russia would face swift and severe consequences if...

He wont do that just to be in basically similar territories where they already have people. is that striking you as correct and therefore bracing for more or it is more complicated? >> it is hard for me, i think it is correct. it is hard to imagine that hes going to move all of these people, all of these troops from as far away as vostok for in reason. it is just to do military exercises and just to bring the world to the brink, it seems to me that he has made his decision and if he hasnt, if th...