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Physically. good to see that he looked robust. he drew a red line with nato. he said dont invade nato. there will be a military response. when it came to ukraine, the disinsentives are two fold. he said the rest of the world will be on him. putin doesnt care about the rest of the world and doesnt care about world public opinion. xi jinping doesnt either that is a throw-away and something that putin would have welcomed. he talked about sector sanctions. get specific. he was specific on nord strea...

That is through a massive military offensive. so a lot of what we may have been witnessing over the past several months with this diplomacy was just kind of buying time and also making the case that diplomacy failed. its time to conduct this military offensive. >> colonel, if the point is to bring ukraine back into the russian fold as youre saying, does that have more value to it than the types of sanctions and the global assault really on russia for having done so in this way? does it make more...

Would ever have been nominated in seven different oscar categories, surpassing walt disney and george clooney, who have been nominated in six. but some of the big favourites — dune is likely to lead the nomination tally, with 10 or 11 nominations — that is really great for the science fiction genre and seeing it lead that tally. on top of that, power of the dog from netflix, that is another favourite. that could do about nine or ten nominations. jane campion would be the first woman ever to ...

But i think ultimately it is more likely that putin decides that the costs greatly without weigh the benefit and we have to show them those costs in the coming days and weeks. >> he would like something that would sound like the rest of the world, to the rest of the world like appeasement, he wants the commitment that nato will not recruit ukraine, that ukraine will not become a member of nato. back in the late 70s and early 80s there were a lot of countries between russia and nato, all as you d...

Occurred inside iraq. the other two in syria, and all were targeting this militia that is known as kataib hezbollah. now, this militia is under the umbrella of the popular mobilization forces. that is the predominantly shia force that was instrumental as a ground unit to bring about the defeat of isis in iraq. but it is a militia, an entity that was formed specifically to respond to isis, but it brought underneath its fold all of these other smaller groups like kataib hezbollah that are very all...

America. all that matters as the ukrainian people get to make that choice for themselves, and not to have it dictated to them by force. that is our interest. vladimir putin wants that not to happen. he wants ukraine in the russian fold, and of story, regardless of what ukrainians want. >> and he wants america and europe to guarantee that ukraine will stay in the russian fold. i meant when i said, ultimately this is up to the ukrainian people as to whether they want to be part of a military allia...

Brought back into the fold and have written their letters and made up their minds. but many others who are wavering and waiting to see if the prime minister can turn things around and can put in place changes which mean that he leads in a style thatis which mean that he leads in a style that is more acceptable to them, both in terms of the way he goes about it and the policy as well, which many mps are not happy about too. a big job for the new chief whip. too. a big “ob for the new chief whi ...

History, you come right back into the fold. so there is this feeling that russia wont let them out of this relationship and move on. now, here where i am, very specifically,wh theres somewha of a different sentiment. i am very a far east. i am close to the russian border. close to thei separatist areas. and here, this is traditionally an area where they speak russian indigenously, many people are tiedan to russia, russia actual in some of the population that was so common in the soviet union sen...

Collapse of the -- soviet union since 1991. it has changed profoundly in the last three decades. culturally, theyve embrace the ukrainian language much more. which was highly restrictive. and politically, theyve changed. particularly the last eight years theyve really been racing towards democracy. they began as a bang out of the starting gate in -- in 2014 when joe biden was vice president. and they have been changing their political orientation more towards europe, more towards nato over the l...

If those sanctions had been stronger, would we be here today? >> i think its a good question. i fear that perhaps we shouldve been stronger in 2014. the reasons that we werent stronger in 2014, though, are many fold. as you heard earlier, we were surprised by the crimea annexation. we didnt expect that to happen. when we imposed sanctions in 2014, for the preceding 25 years the thrust of u.s. strategy toward russia from gorbachev on ward were to integrate russia into the global economy. this was...