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To be received in moscow. weve assurances that these troops are not there on a combat role. theyre there as a deterrent. that theyre there essentially to bolster or reassure other nato forces, but make no mistake, this will be seen as an act of aggression. it will be seen as a very serious threat. it will also be seen, i think, by president putin as a mark shift in the way this white house has previously dealt with russia. as for how president putin chooses to respond to this threat, that remain...

As not only a violation of international law but also an impediment to the peace that we want to achieve. the previous government did a lot to make sure that nothing really worked, worked well whether bilateral relations or in the regional concept with this new government. we do talk. we have frank and open conversations. they know our position very well. we need to end this stalemate and start meaningful negotiations to achieve the peace that is being undermined day in and day out by those hurt...

Discussing the intelligence and the information that is causing this new prescription that theres a dire time frame here. they every not saying theyre certain that russia will act but something could happen before the end of the olympics january 20th and sullivan warned the urs citizens in ukraine to leave and to prepare the public more broadly for what may be coming and part of that is u.s. forces going to support nato allies. not to fight. not in a combat role. >> you touched upon this point b...

Ukraine is not a member of nato, which is painfully apparent to them. what would we do? >> we can follow a model of what president george w. bush did when russia threatened georgia. jake sullivan mentioned that. we had troops in afghanistan and they innovated georgia. we deterred them from the full invasion of georgia. one of the things president did, hi sent military cargo flights in to georgias capitol, which put american boots on the ground, not in a combat role but in a cargo delivery role, ...

BAGHDAD, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Monday discussed ending the combat role of the U.

For president biden especially after what happened in afghanistan, whats a good outcome? >> well, stability think is what the regional players really want to see in iraq. from the united states perspective theres also interesting tleel iraq has been playing in reaching some kind of facilitating the early stages of context between iran and saudi arabia. de-escalate regional tensions separate really from the biden administration. from the american administrations perspective, u.s. troops in terms ...

People of afghanistan are under the age of 25. all they known is what they have seen in the last 25 years. a growing economic, people trying to become responsive, an opportunity for women, personal liberty that they have never seen before. and we ended our combat role six years ago. the last death was 18 months ago. we had 2, 500 people in the country and we were able to keep the taliban at bay by providing contractors to keep the air force in the air and if need be attacking the taliban from ab...

He always ends his speeches trying to honor u.s. military personnel. this, by far, yesterday, the 13 american service members killed in a terror attack, was the worst thing so far for him. >> no question about it. look, this is the first time in his presidency that that card he carries in his pocket has been updated with the numbers of people killed on his watch. this is a reflection of his focus. you cannot separate this, wolf, from the personal element here. joe biden, after all, is the first ...

Severely at — get those people whose lives are so severely at risk, or foreign nationals— severely at risk, or foreign nationals who unexpectedly need to flee the _ nationals who unexpectedly need to flee the country because nobody expected kabul to be overrun like this, _ expected kabul to be overrun like this, that — expected kabul to be overrun like this, that the us should maintain its presence there at least for some more _ its presence there at least for some more weeks while we get ...

Would have this chaos with any retreat and that we thought. you know. and then he says no one told him about it beforehand. were likely to find a lot more of these kind of warnings. i push back on the larger picture, you know, for some reason we have had three presidents that have concluded that they dont want to fight in afghanistan. our combat role was largely done. and it seems to me that the definition of failure we have that because in 20 years we didnt transform afghanistan into belgium, y...