On their side, of course. At one level, you might worry that the words will run out, and missiles will take their place. But you might ask why its just words, and not weapons yet . Could it be that both sides know their own limitations in any form of Military Conflict . Our diplomatic editor mark urban has been working through the logic. American carriers exercising off korea. But these pictures were taken in may, and none of them are there now. The president seems out of sync with his military and his top diplomats. Today, he emphasised the defensive nature of us precautions. I think what the president was reaffirming his that the United States has the capability to fully defend itself from any attack and defend our allies. And we will do so. The American People should sleep well at night. Tillerson is in tune with generations of american statesman who stuck to Teddy Roosevelts maxim, speak softly and carry a big stick. But one reason he can be sanguine is because americas stick is no
against the military victory, this is where we began to worry about what s putin s next step will be. we talk about this whole mad men theory and what he may and may do ultimately, but for putin, as we ve said before this is critical. so i m thinking about things like the language, and the diplomatic know that he sensed the united states where he talks about unpredictable consequences. i m thinking about the civilian atrocities we ve seen and the use of nuclear weapons. all those things are on the table at this point, simply because we know that there are no other options for putin. this is the last card in the deck and he has to succeed here. sean, i think all of ukraine certainly hope that you re wrong on some of these predictions. but we appreciate your insights all the same. john turner, cnn s national security correspondent. coming up, ukraine s defiant president drawing the line on giving up territory to russia. plus, russian propaganda spilling across the border, despite its e
as kellyanne was trying to say. we have to cut it off. we went long with kellyanne because after what she said, we wanted to give time to talk about it. sorry we cut the panel short. passion, anger, emotion. marketing? mad men theory of politics in the senate hearings, the topic of this week s state of the cartooniun. [ upbeat music playing ]
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the potential of a new world order and where the u.s. fits into this. we talked a lot about the so-called mad men theory of foreign policy. you re so unpredictable and provocative, that you make enemies think you are capable of anything at a given moment of time. the president is increasingly employing the strategy not just with north korea, which he talked about fire and fury and total destruction, but he is also using it with allies. he is driving a wedge now through the eu with this pipeline talk. yup. this is an issue that is contentious there, as we just talked about. this is a chancellor in angela merkel who is not very popular right now. who has her own problems. pitting allies against one another in nato in order to get some concessions is apparently the strategy here. it comes with all the downsides, the potential downsides of the mad men strategy. annie, very quickly to you. let s bring it back home here. talk through not just how this