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Programme is completely civilian—oriented — its all about developing your power infrastructure — you simply dont need to enrich uranium to that level to have the power capacity you want. its quite clear, and i think you know this as well as i, that iran has expanded its peaceful nuclear programme because the only way to force the americans and the europeans to abide by their commitments is for the iranians to gain leverage. you know this as well as i — the americans and the europeans are...

But let us also stick to the point you just made about iran not really caring very much about "the western powers" any more. is that because youve made a strategic decision to put all of your faith in, for example, a 25—year—long economic agreement youve just signed with china? youre looking eastward and you think, do you, that you can survive without the dollar economy, without the us lifting its sanctions? i just wonder whether this faith you have — you can outlast the american pressure ...

>> a u.s. official tells me one of those deliveries is arriving in kyiv tonight. and the embassy will be releasing video of that. bret? >> bret: jacqui, following your questions in the briefing today you had a chance to talk with some senior administration officials what can you report? >> yeah, we had a long list of questions. and we are still working through them. including whether the u.s. is going to make written responses to russia public given the fact that putin could just do it anyway. a...

Occupiers. >> thats what we would do in the porcupine defense, the way we gave stingers to afghanistan when the soviets went in. you would have some sense of that playbook. >> would we do that? >> yes. >> should we? >> yes. we cant stop russia from taking ukraine if it wants to. they can conquer ukraine, quote, unquote. we can raise the cost of occupation. >> like we conquered iraq. >> can we raise the cost of occupation? absolutely. you would have decentralized insurgent bands or groups. as the...

Fact he is talking about guarantees that ukraine would neverjoin nato is a lot— that ukraine would neverjoin nato is a lot of— that ukraine would neverjoin nato is a lot of hot air and he is actually— is a lot of hot air and he is actually trying to create a situation that looks as though nato is about— situation that looks as though nato is about to — situation that looks as though nato is about to exit ukraine and ukraine both set— is about to exit ukraine and ukraine both set ”p...

Nato allies. some units are already on a heightened state of readiness. i dont know of specific orders that general walters gave to increase the readiness posture of other unit in europe. i go back to a core principle here. we take our nato commitments seriously. we are going to be consulting with allies as we have been in coming days. if there are ways to bolster their capabilities to help their defensive postures, we will take a serious look at that and not all of that has to come or necessari...

They are speaking out for the first time since seizing power in a coup on monday. hes asking for global support from the nation. >> translator: i call on the international community to give us support. i understand the legitimate doubts raised by the break in the normal functioning of the state, but i would like to reassure, burkina faso will ensure its international commitments, particularly the respect of human lights. >> people gathered on the streets of the capitol. frustrations have been gr...

Not only a massive strategic mistake for russia, it will be met with a very severe cost by the west and by nato. eric: when you say severe cost, what do you expect? >> well, i wont go into the international nato planning, but we look at a range of responses, we look at a range of scenarios. we obviously think about sanctions in that respect, very severe sanctions which will be much, much worse for russia than she faced in 2014 when she seized crimea. but i stress we want diplomacy to resolve thi...

That is part of fulfilling our commitments under that memorandum as would be sanctions on north stream 2 gas pipeline, you raise a good point, if ukraine still had nuclear weapons it would not have russian troops, this goes to barack obama in 2013 and 14, first not enforcing his own red lines, being seen as a push over by strong man like xi jinping, and vladimir putin. and then unwilling to send anything more than meals ready to eat and blankets to the ukraine army in aftermath of the invasion o...

Significant russian population. there is also a large ethnic ukrainian population in russia. -- on the spurious notion that russia has some sort of duty to protect russian speakers throughout the world, it could find itself and commitments everywhere, where russians are being abused. that is their perspective of an empire and a colonizer. a time long past -- the soviet union ceased to exist more than 30 years ago. russia still stands on this exceptionalism -- until it changes its perspective, it...