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Cease-fire agreements that have been implemented here with limited effectiveness have been seen traditionally as favoring russia, as being in moscows favor. so it was thought that he would try to avoid recognizing as independent republics, but by staging this elaborate meeting of his national security council today on live television, going around the room, asking the head of the fsb russian security services and various other personnel what their opinions are as he appears to mull this over, he...

Donbas region where those separatists are because it would give him leverage against the ukrainian government so he could try to increase the pressure on ukraine and, you know, see if they can get some leverage to frankly get rid of the president. i think he has no respect for president zelensky and he would like to have him replaced directly or indirectly. but now, given what president biden said on friday, im deeply concerned because we do have excellent intelligence on russia. you know, for a...

>> the rhetoric from many people divided the administration, the misinformation from both sides are lots of allegations coming out without a lot of sourcing have not been helpful for what is a very thought situation. >> is anybody believing the russians at this point, the u.s. is countering every day with information and that has been radically transparent. >> what american present can do instead of constantly crapping on your allies you actually work constructively with them. >> if our presiden...

Has to do with russianole and gas and germany is dependent on russia. these are things vladamir putin was counting on not making sanctions as severe as had been threatening. >> todd: what is putins relying on? bidens weakness he saw in afghanistan and the nord stream 2 lack of leverage that biden put himself in, the big issue here. >> carley: it is clear vladamir putin and xi jinping want a new order and chipping away at ukraine is part of that. biden may have opened the door to this by weakness...

Basement, leverage would be greatly reduced. ditto the king of saudi arabia and the coke brothers. thats where their money comes from. the therein has chance of really taking off right now is in part because for people who like cars and trucks, these are better than the ones theyre replacing. i mean, if you like to for some reason accelerate a lot, these punch like crazy. theyre quiet. they have very few moving parts. so maintenance is much reduced. if ted cruz had one last year, he wouldnt have...

Hes essentially lost all the leverage that he had in ukraine. before he recognised these territories, minsk was the agreement that gave russia if ukraine could give autonomy to those regions, then russia would essentially have a veto over ukraines foreign policy. i would argue that putin and russia now is worse off than before the recognition of these territories. thinking that this is just a step towards a more significant escalation. towards a more significant escalation-— towards a more sig...

Right? >> he absolutely does not not have any consideration for anyone certainly not enough to stop the blood shed in ukraine. but, in terms of sanctions, actually, he is also a very astute and skilled economic planner. so he has been sanctioned proving russian economy since 2014. and it is really a shame that our president, joe biden, keeps pushing this absurd policy. and during his time as a vice president of former president obama. joe biden absolutely had every single briefing he learned wha...

Of mikolai thats the major city to kherson and odesa. the local administration has said there have been civilian casualties overnight inside the town. continued pressure on that inside the town. you say progress in the south. yes, they appear to be having more forward momentum. kherson is clearly in their hands at this point. theyre resisting that idea as much as they can and mikolai potentially next. it is concerning for ordinary ukrainians if they see the black sea area increasingly under russ...

Hopefully they will have to approve. that and i think that, in a lot of ways, its them who have allowed put into time this. its because of the oil line. its because the europeans are so dependent upon russian oil and gas that putin really knows that europeans have less leverage now. they might have had it in another time. we >> kathryn stoner, what kind of headroom do we have left on sanctions. usually, you think about bedrooms as something you could do before you go to war. before you up a conf...

An admission that this killer in this butcher vladimir putin has leverage over us. why would we want that to continue. why will we have someone like him to have the power to raise gas prices on americans. >> we weakened ourselves, the leftist focus is on climate as their religion. what we have to do is a common sense has to prevail in that. we are an energy-based economy. dagen: is astonishing protestant biden has stood up in front of the american people and made the case of why are they paying....