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The president of ukraine when he was a candidate, this was about 10, 15 years ago, theyve tried -- successfully poisoned many dissidents but there still is a vibrant dissident community in russia. will it stay? will it make a difference? >> well, all it takes is -- we dont know how this whole thing is going to play itself out, but what alexei navalny who is in jail, now kara-murza is in jail, their calculation is that at some point putin is going to misstep. the whole country is going to rise up...

Like the baltics or poland, theres no better way to guarantee russia increases the forces on the periphery than go into ukraine. >> if they go into ukraine, its a nightmare at home because suddenly you have massive troop movement into poland, massive troop movement into other nato countries thats getting closer and closer to the old soviet union. >> and finland is talking about possibly wanting nato if russian goes into ukraine. putin wants to redraw the security map of europe, he better be care...

Theyre creating an exit ramp if the russians want to take it. i think this is being well handled. at some point putin will have to decide, what does he want? >> putin is extraordinarily effective at trolling the united states, trolling the west. he did it, of course, in the 2016 campaign. he was on our front page of world newspapers over the next four years. hes once again seized the national spotlight. not bad for a country with about $2 trillion gdp. their gdp thats 1/10th of what the united s...

A new german government, what better to learn about the new german government about what they do on sanctions or the nord stream 2 pipeline. >> same thing for joe biden. joe bidens been on the stage for a long time. he saw what happened in afghanistan. so push the new president, see what youre going to get from the new president. like you said, push the new leadership from germany, see what youre going to get from the new leadership in germany. test them out, push them. im not saying -- im not s...

And has to do with deterrence and deterrence is about credible threats. putin has to see the pain is not worth taking to make the choice to go in there. so the question is are these sanctions tough enough, are some of the things that are happening of moving troops and things to that area something that scares him off and maybe makes him push away? so i think the administration is doing a good job of keeping the allies and europeans together on this. a number of countries are sending troops and t...

Evacuate americans if russia invades ukraine. joining me now, fareed zakaria. he is the host of "fareed zakaria gps." thanks for joining, fareed. good evening to you. in just the last 24 hours were told russia added another 2,000 combat forces near ukraines border. thats on top of the 100,000 troops already there. all this movement in the direction of conflict, can it be stopped at this point? >> its a great question, don, because what russia has now done is it has really surrounded ukraine on t...

Putin is getting everything he does not want, a unified nato, more troops closer to the border. you got ukrainian people united against moscow, against putin. talk us through where we are this moment. >> secretary austin should be meeting with his german counterpart in brussels. what theyre hoping to accomplish at this nato defense minister meeting this week is a show of unity and to show vladimir putin what you described. number one, the u.s. troops have moved closer to the u.s. border. they se...

Felt there has been a bit of a deescalation. it seems like moscow is now open once again to diplomacy. theyre not showing it, though. theres no sign theyre actually drawing down their troops. all of this on a day of, quote unquote, unity happening inside. talk to me. >> reporter: we dont know in theres a deescalation or not or if the tone has changed. according to the secretary of state, theres been no fullback of russian forces and some are moving closer to the board. and u.s. military official...

I think also what has without question happened is nato has come together in a manner not seen in the last decade, that trump knocked that alliance on its knees, its now vibrant, theyre worried about the russians, theyre worried about their own preparedness. secretary austins meetings today in brussels with other defense minister from the 30 nato nations are vital. so i must admit i think were in better circumstances today on deterrence and with president bidens very powerful presentation yester...

Brussels to show no matter what putin decides to do in ukraine, they will remain united. secretary austin is meeting with his german counterpart. thats one of the bilateral alliances that has shown strain. president biden only recently standing with his partner also, you mentioned theres some more troops heading in. we are seeing those images today. that is a powerful image, as we all wait to see what putin decides to do in ukraine. >> courtney, thank you for now. richard, lets get into it. over...