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Hand, there are many ways in which china and russia have become more aligned in recent years. their attitude to global governance, their attitude to the west, the idea that the international system should have a more shared power structure and not be dominated by the united states and even their concept of democracy. it is more aligned than it isn�*t. you can see how they have become natural partners in some ways. 0n the other hand, though, china does still have commercial interests in ukraine...

>> im not sure if it matters as much as long as it doesnt impact the power structure was overreliance on the and russia has been trying very hard. so as far as the russian people, one is the perception of the russians they feel the rest of the world has with them which is a secondary order of effect and the calculations from the government. that bigger is the perception and what you are seeing in those communities with ukrainians and russian citizens protesting in front of the russian embassy. t...

Administration maintains the u.s. is not. >> what we know is that, you know, from the u.s. economy we dont import a lot of russian oil, but we are looking at a options that we can take right now if we were to cut the u.s. conception -- consumption assumption of -- consumption of russian energy. whats most important is we maintain a steady supply of russian energy. >> reporter: the white house saying severing a tie with them would hurt us more than them. the administration believes sanctions anno...

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Plant, but equally, it is of great concern. it clearly appears to be an aim of the russians, the invading russians to take control of more and more of ukraines power structure and that means those nuclear facilities in the immediate term, they can control the power supply to many ukrainians, what is on the worlds mind is what the russian forces could do if president putin ordered them to do something even more terrible to somehow preach one of those reactors. clearly we have seen it appears noth...

Military means and financial aid, this mission to compete with russians would be impossible. >> we know theres more that can be done. we thank you for being with us. well hear from your president tomorrow. he will speak virtually to the united states congress at 9:00 a.m. the whole nation will be watching. thank you, sir. hope you join us again soon. stay well. >> thank you. >> martha: so what exactly is china doing to pull strings behind the scenes here? victor davis hanson on the shifting powe...

Isolated himself at his dacha, weve seen pictures of him at a table far distant from his staff. it may be nobody, it may be that not a single oligarch by himself can change his mind, but the theory goes that they as a class, the power structure in russia as a class around putin will at some point grow so disenchanted, so upset with their losses, the economy being choked and their own fortunes being impacted, that treasure may eventually rise to the point were putin himself feelings it. now, we d...

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Members. internal service. with some responsibility for outside of f russia too. individuals were responsible for ukraine. as the foundation of putin support is the security elite. the fact that some senior members were the intelligence community will be laser focussed on this. these are things that were really looking for to see if really foundations of the power structure are cracking. >> once again, im finding myself in a situation where i want to talk to you for another ten minutes. i have r...

The world actually is not as hostile to russia as we might hope that they would be. so with all of that in mind, i dont think that mr. putin really feels all that dissuaded at the moment from using chemical weapons if he really feels that he will be able to achieve battlefield victory from using them on that point and on the point of the pressure that hes feeling from from internal sources that being the people in his country, other people who run the country or who are within the government, th...