you know when will this happen? maybe this summer, but i think the important thing is he s not saying and in fact, you re saying they will not put them in the hands of alexander lukashenko was the president of belarus. and that could be a problem. he s keeping control, he says, in the hands of himself , obviously, russia in general, so i do think that in all of these things as soon as you kind of begin pumping, upping the ante when you re talking about nuclear weapons is provocative, sometimes dangerous, but i do not think that you know it s panic time or anything like that . it s putin trying to escalate because he has problems. right i mean, we ve seen that time and again in ukraine, and do you think this decision will force any sort of counter move by the u. s or nato? or do they just keep an eye on it? and see you know how? how much he really
and you and your team there have done a great job of making it clear what happened. you can be sure that the two russian aircraft have video capability, and if they were in fact not guilty of what is clear that they have done, no doubt the kremlin would have rolled out that video immediately to make their case, and we have not seen any of that. one question as always with every move is if there is a counter move from vush sha. do you think that though important for transparency showing the transparency with the pentagon, do you think that russia is going to see this and further respond now that the video has been put out? i think that they will wait to see what we do next obviously. this is the typical kremlin playbook of deny everything, distort, distract, and try to change the narrative and of course, if we don t respond by putting a drone up again, and this gives weight to the claim
plays, solid, i think it s got to go through nunge at some point. screen and roll, seal, and a nice little trap on the timeout, they call it, how about that? not sleeping. a little counter attack. they doubled on the box, and hopkins, a counter move.
self-incriminating. yes. is it does indicate there is some worry here. any person is entitled to take the fifth if they believe the testimony might incriminate them and it is an important constitu constitutional tection. and how could your age incriminate you. i think part of that is a symbol of defiance. but the other part is, people when they take the fifth want to take it very broadly so they re not accused of giving away their fifth amendment right. i think it was excessive here. now the different calculation, if doj questions these people, they could still take the fifth but doj then have a counter move which is called immunity. so if doj wants to, they could say to jeffrey clark, okay, we re going to force you to testimony but not use your testimony against you and as a practical matter, we re not going to prosecute you. so that is an important strategic decision that prosecutors are thinking about right now.
what s the goal for president biden now? given that putin made this move, what s joe biden s countermove? the counter move is to say whatever you say, we are in this till the end. and president zelenskyy will speak after president biden. putin s bet was the politics of february, march and april would blow this open and that s not happened. and also the winter in the european energy markets, what the europeans would call black mail. can everybody stick together, can the united states and its allies continues the escalation of the expertise and the high tech and more capable weapons to the ukrainians. and heading into the next several weeks and months, we re going to come out of the winter to the spring and putin talking with blustery language today.