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Bring risks to chinas economy. in a lot of ways china as a mediator is not exactly a neutral partner. they are seen as an important strategic partner of russia. just last week the foreign minister was declaring that their ties are rock solid, but china does have leverage with moscow. moscow right now is looking for some assurances from china. russian officials were saying publicly that theyre counting on ties with china in order to bail out their economy, which is, of course, hard hit by sanctio...

Say are bogus or inflated target, potentially to be used as leverage in negotiations with the broader world. this comes as more western companies are suspending businesses in russia. now, and another major move, visa and mastercard of sustaining operations in russia. the sanctions are affecting citizens. russias trade minister as well as russian supermarket and have renowned -- announced a restriction of the amount of food staples that can be sold. its an effort to style up hoarding and panic bu...

Never engaged directly in kinetic action. the biden administration shouldnt take this off the table as senator joe manchin said. we dont want to lose the leverage and we dont want to ever institute a no fly zone. right know it would be risky. the benefits are questionable. russia is using ground forces to launch so many devastating attacks. >> martha: one last sound bite here, this is bill burns, the cia director talking about putin being angry and frustrated at this point. watch. >> putin is an...

Like? and based on your own experience, when you see that lightly, what message does that send? >> first, i need -- i think we have to come out and say that these people are being held unjustly. in the case of brittney griner, there is still a lot of information to gather, and i dont think that the u.s. government has made the indication that she is necessarily a wrongful detainee. but when that happens, first of all, i want to change the vocabulary in this. wrongful detaining means hostage. it ...

Way for russia to evade sanctions or keep certain elements of the economy going in this very, very tight sanctions environment. on the other hand, it makes them more dependent on china. that means going forward, beijing will have more and more and more leverage over russia. >> i want to play some sound from national security advisor jake sullivan on "meet the press" this morning talking about china and any country financially helping russia. take a listen. >> we have made it clear to not just be...

Germany? not cutting off his oil? not ground to air missiles? come on folks, this is the problem. we get this word, escalation. it would be viewed as an escalation, the same damn general in u.s. deputy of the doctors, same joint chiefs of staff, statement president of united states. same vice president of united states, same secretary of defense, who surrendered in afghanistan. the same secretary of state, who surrendered all leverage we had with the president of the united states, with putin, p...

Point. i wonder what is this going to mean for belarus, is this potentially going to destabilize belarus? could there be backlash there? >> we call him or hes called often the last dictator in europe. i would say there are two dictators in europe now, vladimir putin and little vladimir putin and that is alexander lukashenko, hes physically much taller. this puts them now at the peril of getting sanctioned by the west, and the united states in particular. that is some of the leverage, the u.s. ha...

That he is sick of hearing that we are afraid of putin. that he needs to be afraid of us. but there is that balancing act. getting into a war with russia directly changes the dynamic. >> it does. president biden has led the world in this isolation. i think that this will have an credible impact on his people. maybe on government officials, on people that have some power or some leverage with putin. that is a goal. that is not an immediate solution. the challenge is to ways we can support them mi...

One thing were looking for is whether the u.s. would get any sort of condemnation out of the chinese. we know the u.s. wants china to condemn russias actions in ukraine. and another question is there some way for china to use their influence on russia to try to get the violence in ukraine to come to some sort of end. we dont know the answer to that question either, and as for the costs that the u.s. has said china would pay if they supply aid to russia, to aid the war in ukraine, the u.s. hasnt ...

Well this has been a regular tactic against presence in iraq frankly for decades you know this is iran wants the remaining u.s. military presence in iraq to leave. theyre trying to induce government of iraq to do that even though united states shifted to advisory role and iran is trying to deliver a message to us. regionally, just last week these valli reportedly struck a couple of irgc generals or officers in damascus, syria iran maybe trying to exact revenge and headliners in iran are, you kno...