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Troops in the ukraine to fight, should there be another invasion by russia into ukraine. but it does reinforce a couple of points here, for americans, one, sovereignty of a free independent nation state, democracy at that, needs to matter. and the whole world needs to take notice if russia violates the sovereignty and there will be economic consequences, severe economic consequences that the united states is willing to impose on russia for violating that very basic simple principle thats been in...

Price. so i hope we can get it done. i can tell you that ive talked with a lot of my republican colleagues as well as my democratic colleagues, and i see a common commitment for legislation. i hope we can reach the finish line. >> this bill would likely include some sanctions that will take effect immediately. house foreign affairs chair gregory meeks said he doesnt support preemptive sanctions because he feels it would do little to stop putin. >> the clear objective is to do everything we can t...

The statement reads as follows. it says at the presidents direction, and following secretary austins recommendation, the department of defense will reposition certain european based units further east, forward deploy additional u.s. based units to europe and maintain a heightened state of readiness of response forces to meet these commitments. it adds these forces are not going to fight in ukraine. they are not permanent moves. they respond to current conditions. again, stephanie, the breaking n...

Statement on the need of germany and all nato allies to keep their commitments to respect sovereignty and territorial integrity. were you satisfied with what you heard from president biden, and the german chancellor, in yesterdays press conference, what more should the u.s. be doing with respect to russias threat to ukraine? >> america is not a fair weather friend. under this president, what we are seeing is strong diplomatic engagement, to keep a unified front. we are protecting a nascent democ...

>> as you know, we are seeing really incredible russian aggression with the deployment of 100,000 troops at the border of ukraine. we assured our nato allies in europe that we are going to meet our commitment to defend them, that they are well protected from russian aggression in case that should spread. i think its strands a strong message to russia, their aggression it is not going to be able to break apart nato. it will not be able to splinter nato. we are going to keep our commitments to nat...

Buchanan was more of a social conservative in fact than trump is. but that is a recesssive gene, i agree with you, recesssive. but no question, from 1996 to today that portion of the party has gotten bigger, stronger, louder, more central to republican nomination politics. pat, the set of issues and the grievance at the court of it, the basic white grievance core of it and the party has gone down scale. it is less educated than it was 20 years ago. it is the party of the white working class now....

It is based on a might makes right model where vladimir putin says i am more powerful than you, ukraine, i can tell you what to do and with whom to associate, so these are prudent steps the biden administration is taking to send a clear message that the united states will honour its article five nato commitments, but will not send combat troops to ukraine. instead they are sending six shipments, already, of defensive weapons to ukraine so ukraine can defend itself. so what do you think would be ...

This is from the "new york times". china would have needed to purchase $227 billion of u.s. exports in 2020 and $274 billion in 2021 for a total of $502.4 billion. over the two years, according to chad bowen. that was just over half of what was promised. what happened, brian? are you saying it was a bad deal the trump administration made? >> that agreement was flawed in multiple ways, including unrealistic commitments and not having a mechanism to hold china to act to the commitments it did make...

Countries like egypt and support for the war in yemen cant make the case for advancing freedom around the world. beyond this crisis, stevens is insufferably vague what it would take. says the u.s. must quote restore the concept of the free world, larger idea that the worlds democracies are bound by shared and foundational commitments to human freedom and dignity. sounds great, but shouldnt we first shore up our own foundational commitments to human freedom and dignity here in the united states? ...

They have u.s. troops are not going into ukraine to fight and war. >> they are not fighting in ukraine, this is us, this is the united states abiding by our commitments under article five to support, reassure our partners in the region. >> that decision to deploy american troops follows a flurry of diplomacy that has at least so far failed to deliver any progress amid the crisis. this as new satellite imagery of multiple russian military deployments in belarus, crimea, and western russia appear ...