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That. some people think this troop buildup is actually all a power play to get the russians more leverage in those talks. but secretary blinken, basically, crash that little party and said, we need to be talking about the bigger issue here. this russian intimidation of ukraine, with a massive military buildup. it is part of what has been an interesting, you know, public offensive by the biden administration, to take the initiative, try to put pressure on vladimir putin, who has the strategic lev...

During the trump administration and president trump was constantly being criticized by being too cozy and nice to putin but now here we are in the biden administration and he is flexing his muscles in a very real, ugly, potentially bloody deadly way again. do you think theres something about the relationship between putin and trump there was a warning to putin? maybe he was afraid of enough of the unpredictability of president trump. did they have a special understanding? do you make anything of...

They feel like they have, it sounds like, more of a winning hand. or some leverage here, if you will. >> yeah, i think they probably are thinking something like that in the domestic political politics. because they ultimately, if they do go down more -- they will want the backing of congress. they will want to unify the government behind the policy. no one is talking about sending troops into ukraine. biden has adamantly said no, we will not do that. but there are certain policies whereby congre...

>> it was a great example of ho serious of those was tonight. he had a rare opportunity to have a reset of his agenda. its widely known that american do not have confidence in him. this is one of the few times he could actually articulate a knowledge of how bad things are addressing actual problems. instead, it was like he gave a speech for a different country where things are sort of okay and where the last year hasnt seen all these bad things happe as a result the bible biden policies. our ene...

Where the civilian infrastructure was located, particularly nuclear power plants. you draw big red line around that or a circle around it, and ensure that we avoid it, that the u.s. military avoided that target and avoided the collateral damage and noncombatant deaths to innocence. thats actually not the way that russia operates under vladimir putin. >> trace: i wonder when the west starts to look at things differently. how many war crimes, how many atrocities, how many times do you break the ru...

My question is again this, do you think those in the west are prepared to take that pain? they were not... even if they were not prepared, the time has come. so, first of all, like, let me rephrase. its always painful to get off heroin. but you are literally saying, like, "ok, its so painful that ill do it later," but later, you will still have to do it if you want to survive, but later it will be more painful, right? so the earlier you do it, the better. and if you would have — if you would h...

Nuclear weapons, and thats why this nrf deployment is so important, and why our allies, in estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland are anxious to see a stronger nato presence and stronger american presence there. >> you mentioned the 30 nations completely insync, uniform and that that may have come as a surprise to vladimir putin. what about kazakhstan, refusing his request to send troops to help in his attempted takeover of ukraine. how surprising must that be to him? >> well, this is a reflection, ...

Were just not being candid about what the values of the property were. the problem, don, here, is that at the end of the day the valuations of properties are subjectivity. i might believe my house is worth $10 million and i can say that to my accountant, but at the end of the day its just an opinion, right? and its hard to charge someone criminally sometimes on the basis of what they say in statements like this. >> even if youre trying to use it for leverage? >> but thats the heart of the invest...

Leave ukraine for some time. the infrastructure was better in terms of an exit strategy. im not sure that theres that much more that we can do than has been done on that front. is there? >> no, i dont think there is. what is interesting, were threatening financial sanctions in that if russia invades, we can cut them off from the global financial system. if we do that, i think russia knows all well do is at one point push russia in to the arms of china. you can have a fraction of that system. we ...

Lincoln said this about russia and ukraine. >> let me ask this question. in your assessment wide is ten escalating with ukraine now? why did he do this under the previous administration who was not as supportive of nato? steve: lets think because in the real world not the fake pr world most politicians in all senior members of the biden regime in the real world what you do is more important than what you say. what the previous administration did blair send arms to ukraine with the obama biden po...