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With oil. 0nly multiplies those risks and come on top of all the big supply disruptions that we had already which were basically hampering our recovery from the pandemic. and recovery from the pandemic. and briefl for recovery from the pandemic. and briefly for us. _ recovery from the pandemic. and briefly for us, how _ recovery from the pandemic. and briefly for us, how bad does this get before it starts to get better? investors pride themselves on doing things in, knowing what is coming, no—...

Hadine in the 80s inside of afghanistan, thats a good thing. not sure i would go as far as colonel vinman proposed. that would make ukraine sound too much like a nato member and may cause a reaction from the ru russians that would push this over the borders. i agree with getting them as much they can right now. >> when you see some of this awful video where homes are destroying in areas where zero militarily significant infrastructure, this has to look intentional to you, that putin is bombing c...

And then they decided wed the first to cry chapters to be different and they made that ukraine, which they should have, and then kept everything else the same from speeches of the last two years. and we heard nothing about american energy independence, which is so crucial right now given the leverage that russia has created for itself. he talks about releasing 60 million barrels from the oil reserves and that covers three whole days. yells at talked talk about bill back better. it is dead that i...

So its not like you are cutting off a new supply. it has not even got up and running yet so in terms of timing you may argue that russia picked a bad time to use nord stream two as leverage because europe is not yet really relying on that. 0k, not yet really relying on that. ok, christine mcdaniel, from the macarthur centre, thank you very much. the prospect of conflict and sanctions has prompted a sharp rise in energy prices. the cost of brent crude rose to $99 a barrel, a jumbo 3%. wholesale g...

With we can go back and blame ten administrations in a row if we want to. but the sad place is we sit in this place today, and the whole world knows russia gets to do this because they have nuclear weapons, and theres two people that see that the most, and thats north korea and is iran. that a says -- will: joey, that is so right because thats whats lurking in the background of everyone who proceeds with caution. youre talking about a nuclear power here as your adversary, and youre absolutely ri...

Talked about energy security and how important it was. and, by the way, for the past year ukrainian delegations have been to congress multiple times in my office. the first two times they talked about nord stream. they pleaded with us so tanks -- to fully sanction nord stream because they know how important it is to the leverage and the power that putin has. and so this is something that we have been saying since january 20th when our president assaulted the oil and gas industry. what we need to...

Are you sure russia is as vulnerable as you claim it is? well, thats the only leverage the west now has on russia. well, i dont pretend and i dont expect that, like, nato would start a war with russia. not going to happen, right? so, the only, like, "peaceful" leverage the west still has is going after putins money and trying to use it. so, this is something that, at least, is worth trying, because everything else we know already. all those diplomatic efforts of this, like, you know, shuttle dip...

In the name of people he trusts, the trustees so you have to sanction the oligarchs and the billionaires on the forbes list and the united states will go after oligarchs and family members. yes, they did, a few but not nearly enough in order to really show putin that were serious. i mean, theres all sorts of images of private jets and boats, yachts floating around the world with these oligarchs who are untouched. so this has to be done in an absolutely meticulous manner to go after putins oligar...

Amount that they are able to export? is it limits because of our sanctions? how exactly does that -- because we are going to start to hear a conflation from this administration well the reason we have inflation or the reason we have high oil prices is because of ukraine, ukraine only. we he know its more than that. >> you got to go back to the very first day of the biden administration. when the cancel the keystone pipeline and then cut back on the drilling for oil and natural gas. and restricte...

Government and political mainstream establishment really and with voters that germany needs to get more assertive with russia than it has been until now because people are frankly shocked and stunned by what they are seeing in ukraine. we will see that later today with more big protests, probably bigger than we have seen today in berlin and i am sure the parliamentary debate in just a few minutes here in berlin is going to reflect on some of that anguish about what we are seeing right now in ukr...