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green on the world stage. in front of a crowd of his many 3000 people in warsaw, poland, president joe biden renewed his steadfast commitment to the people of ukraine. well in moscow russian president vladimir putin delivered a defiant state of the nation address. his first since launching the invasion of ukraine nearly one year ago. putin repeated the lies that he has been spewing for a year, claiming that the west started the war, which he still refers to only as a, quote, special mi...

president joe biden renewed his steadfast commitment to the people of ukraine, while in moscow, russia has a lot of with the deliberative defined state fast of a nation address. his first since launching the invasion of ukraine nearly one year ago. putin repeated the lies that he has been spewing for a year, claiming that the west started the war, which he still refers to only as a, quote, special military operation. the russian president also announced he will stop participating in th...

Putins idea of a run nascent russian empire to fire and steal. with respect to belarus, one could argue it has already been a de facto vassal state of russia for many years. since 2021, when alexander lukashenko brutally suppressed a pro democracy protest movement and, according to international monitors, stolen election -- hes not the legitimate president of belarus according to the u.s. eu and united states -- he does not want, according to experts we consulted for this story -- he does not wa...

Destructive. and depending on what that is, and how permanent it is, you could become the co-combatant. >> what about some of the efforts, even if it doesnt make the u.s. the co-combatant but theyre being liberal with some of these things, if these things dont work, if these things short of military action dont work, i understand were all watching, the u.s. is very clear it is looking at polls, the administration is and saying we cant go in militarily, can they afford to watch kyiv get creamed r...

Zelenskyy out, at least to another city, so he can survive, because hes the face of the resistance right now. but, you know, what if they give them targeting information, for instance? does that make them a co-combatant? the other issue is, though, the -- no poll ive seen of americans attitudes towards this conflict, nobody wants to see u.s. troops on the ground. >> in the conventional sense. theres a squishy line, right? >> particularly in the world of cyber, where people are still trying to de...

There are lobbyists and lawyers in washington. >> working pro bono. they werent before and now they are. . >> thats exactly right. that is not usually what they are known for. but in this case helping to put together a war crimes kind of evidence in case the administration goes that way. . >> you mentioned one of the leading firms has actually filed basically a war crimes lawsuit on behalf of the ukrainian government. you also talk about the migs that possibly poland might supply. and there are ...

What they can and cannot do and maybe what the limitations are? >> well, the trick that president biden is trying to deal with right now, and you saw it in the speech yesterday, and what he said we were doing and what he didnt say is that he cant let the united states become what is called a co-combatant in the war. he said were not going to be a direct participant. so obviously were feeding them arms. obviously were feeding them some intelligence. but what happens when you get to those next ste...

The issue with chernobyl seems to be resolved at least for the moment. that leaves us with this issue with poland, with these jets. the migs that the ukrainians badly want and a question about getting it to them but how. how to get it to them and in which way. where do you see this going? >> i dont think it is going to happen. the reason i dont think it is going to happen is what were seeing is that poland and the united states and the rest of nato are trying to hand off the question of who is r...

Not providing the realtime targeting that you see our military having gotten in conflicts like in iraq where instant to instant. we have got uav. unblinking eye as they say giving the data. we are not doing that because that steps over the line to make us participate in the war. >> i think its important for us to understand where that line is. can you just add some more context about what we are doing? what is on the other side of targeting? >> we are providing fair amount of lethal equipment, w...

I think theyll try to find a balance. certainly, theyre not going to criticize russians. theyre going to blast united states, which theyve already done, blasting the united states for sanctions, i think theyll try to provide some measure of economic support for putin, but theyre going to stay away, certainly, from any kind of military channel that makes china a co-combatant. che xi is terrified or very concerned about the prospect of secondary sanctions kimposed by the united states, should they...