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I debate russians all the time and they have been taken aback by the white house being so skillful in doing this. helene raised the methods. it kept russia a little bit on the defensive. my problem with the sanctions is i favor stronger ones. the problem is i think the kremlin has priced those in. the kremlin feels it can say bring it on. theres certainly a hard line group in the kremlin that -- well call them war hawks perhaps -- that welcome that. that gives them an excuse to turn the screws t...

Thats giving up not only the sovereignty of ukraine, thats giving us giving up our own sovereignty. and thats for putin to mount troops on the border of bulk and countries for instance and tell the european union, unless they drop plans to bring, you know, countries there inside the u. p. and union, there will be an invasion. once you get from those, its hard to understand where it stops. and its not just about ukraine sovereignty, its about our sovereignty. if europe in the united states decide...

And that borders ukraine? >> it is vital. i think you will see that. you know, the nato alliance often gets knocked for a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of committees, a lot of talk, talk, talk. it can also move very, very fast. i think you are going to see that. you are going to see troops, tanks, armor, warships, all of it flowing toward those russian borders. again, give putin what he doesnt want here, which is an expanded, unified, serious nato all around its borders. defensive, of course, but sh...

Signaling, but it does tend to get peoples notice. the challenges in a crisis, they may be doing something defensive. or we may be something offensive. and might be misinterpreted. for example, the united states and nato have a number of fighter aircrafts that they carry short-range nuclear weapons in a crisis. we might choose to disperse those aircrafts in multiple cases so, that theyre not vulnerable to a predictive russian attack. but to russia that might look like for flushing our fighter ai...

When it can make a difference. put more troops in eastern europe. and yesterdays sanctions were good but they are not going to be enough to deter vladimir putin and we also need to be prepared for the economy to continue to take. vladimir putin has 190,000 troops that surround ukraine, but he can sit on the border and just menace ukraine. and the economy has three to six months before it starts to really hit hard. that may be his game plan. want to pick up on that, general, about the equipment...

Natural leader. if you expose, as ms. neuberger did, the cyber activity right away and attribute it right away, because this was a fairly familiar kind of attacks i dont think it took a whole lot to do the attribution, then you make it a little bit harder. you put everybody on alert about a certain type of code coming from a certain place. and you put the hackers who were doing this somewhat on the defensive. not permanently but temporarily. the whole idea here is to throw president putin and hi...

I cant take it anymore. no one can take it anymore. the whole thing. we have to take a different approach. and with respect, it is not a federal approach. and so we have to be more aggressive, it is time to put the these guys on the defensive. thats what were doing. there is no principled way that the u.s. supreme court cannot uphold californias law on assault weapons and ghost guns. no principled way whatsoever. so were calling the question, and were moving aggressively and were now playing on ...

If putin makes the call, whether the u.s. calls him out or not. at this moment, it appears pretty likely, although who knows. but this was interesting to. kevin what lincoln said. given his talk about the pretext. given his story about why this war would have to be shaped as defensive in some way, or justify by russian authorities. russia disseminated of 45 document -- 45-page document at the un extort eight -- two of its own cities. possibly laying the groundwork for the exact kind of protect t...

Hasnt qualified for membership. they still have to do work to clean up corruption. but what -- putin wants is a binding document that commits nato countries and ukraine to never have ukraine as a member. thats giving up not only the sovereignty of ukraine, thats giving us giving up our own sovereignty. and thats for putin to mount troops on the border of bulk and countries for instance and tell the european union, unless they drop plans to bring, you know, countries there inside the u.p. and uni...

Continue to do everything we can to stand by the people of ukraine, with a very robust package of sanctions, as you know, fortifying the eastern flank of nato in all the ways that we have, but also seeing one of the few countries to have given ukrainians the defensive, i stress defensive, weaponry that we think is appropriate to their needs, and we will continue to think about what more we can do to support ukraine in what is clearly a very dark and difficult time. in terms of the testing, poten...