way of vladimir putin reclaiming the old soviet empire. the problem with germany, they import russian old and russian natural gas. germans are paying three times as much to run their cars. there s no way germany will jeopardize their position with russia and russia s energy. how bad it is now, next year it s worst. with the nord stream 2 gas pipeline, russia will be controlling more of the german and european economy with their energy. martha: so is germany a member of nato in reality anymore? they re a member of nato but they re not let me put it in this perspective. when president trump i was in the oval office when angela merkel called president trump. she said the first thing out of her mouth, what are you doing to do about ukraine?
administration trying too so strengthen russia. after the president delivered a weak message to prudent appearing to okay a minor russian incursion of ukraine. listen here. in the event there is a renewed russian force going into ukraine there is going to be a swift, severe and united response. abby: republican supported the finger biden in the administration for prudence to aggression. for a year he has been appeasing vladimir putin. he gave them a one-sided treaty the first month of his presidency. he removes sanctions from the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany, he did nothing about the colonial pipeline act, and august vladimir putin like the rest of the world saul joe biden s debacle in afghanistan. that s why vladimir putin thinks timing is right. abby: strong words from senator tom cotton. he aligns with a lot of critics that are saying what it comes to
more now on our top story, and america s top diplomat has warned against imposing sanctions against russia too early, over its threats towards ukraine. the ukrainian president has called for sanctions to be imposed now, but the us secretary of state said that could have a detrimental effect. russia denies it s planning any invasion, but it has seized ukrainian territory before and it has an estimated 100,000 troops deployed near its borders. president biden has threatened russia s leader with measures like none he s ever seen if ukraine is attacked. so what would they involve? the ultimate economic hit would be to disconnect russia s banking system from the international swift payment system, effectively cuting the country off from the global economy. another key threat is to prevent the opening of russia s nord stream 2 gas pipeline in germany, and approval for that is currently being decided by germany s energy regulator.
in ukraine as well, that s a pretext as well we ve only had trainers from time to time and what he really wants is to reassemble the greater soviet russia empire that he thinks was a geopolitical catastrophe when it collapsed in the 90s and he wants to have a nondemocratic buffer zone so the russian people can t look at places like ukraine or georgia and is a if democracy works in those countries, why shouldn t it work in hours and that s what vladimir putin has always wanted, so why is it that now he s put more than a hundred thousand troops on the border and there i think president biden bears a lot of the blame. for a year he has been appeasing vladimir putin. he gave him a very one-sided nuclear arms control treaty the very first month of his presidency. he removed his sanctions from the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany which his own party opposed and he really did nothing about the colonial pipeline hack and then in august vladimir putin let the
in ukraine as well, that s a pretext as well we ve only had trainers from time to time and what he really wants is to reassemble the greater soviet russia empire that he thinks was a geopolitical catastrophe when it collapsed in the 90s and he wants to have a nondemocratic buffer zone so the russian people can t look at places like ukraine or georgia and is a if democracy works in those countries, why shouldn t it work in hours and that s what vladimir putin has always wanted, so why is it that now he s put more than a hundred thousand troops on the border and there i think president biden bears a lot of the blame. for a year he has been appeasing vladimir putin. he gave him a very one-sided nuclear arms control treaty the very first month of his presidency. he removed his sanctions from the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany which his own party opposed and he really did nothing about the colonial pipeline hack and then in august vladimir putin let the