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Becoming a full name of nato and scaling back of protections in surrounding countries. the russia using this specter of invasion as a geopolitical bargaining chip of sorts or is it worse than that? he manufacturing his own reason, a fake pretext for an all-out war there? a moment of crisis similar to the cold war. the "washington post" wrote, the soviet unit collapsed 30 years ago this month, an event that opened up vast new possibilities for freedom and self determination in europe but whose ge...

Very little has changed since then except that vladimir putin has been making more demands. he wants nato to pull back and troops moved from the eastern borders and doesnt want ukraine to join nato. what would come from this call that they didnt discuss a few weeks ago? >> a lot of speculation why putin requested the call. it is significant putin is the one who initiated the need for this conversation to happen barely over three weeks since the two leaders last spoke and barely two weeks before ...

Open the front up further. on one hand. — open the front up further. on one hand, yes, it could open the front up further. q�*i one hand, yes, it could divide pretext for him, although it does not appear that that would move the russian people to view any invasion, any new invasion of ukraine favourably. he might have a pretext but it wont make him popular. and i think the reality is that again, as i said, it is going to be quite costly, and hes not going to achieve his objectives at the poi...

Their new years hangover. we were happy to be done with 2020. we brought into the premise in our hearts we could never ever see anything as crazy as 2020. >> we had 4 good days. everyone was excited. >> on january 6th, the year 2021 said to the year 2020, hold my maga hat. >> using the pretext it of the china virus and the scam of mail-in ballots, democrats attempted the most brazen and outrageous election theft. there has never been anything like this. a pure theft in american history. everybod...

>> reporter: russia has more than 100,000 troops positioned near ukraines borders. it is demanding ukraine never be allowed to join nato and nato shrink back to what it was in 1997, dismantling much of the alliances presences across much much europe and baltic. it is such a command theyre worried vladimir putin is building a pretext to invade ukraine. on the ground, soldiers told us they will stand their ground as long as they can. he said, we all want to return to our families but this is our l...

Three-year anniversary, the state department -- under far-fetched pretext, paul whelan and trevor reed were arrested while committing serious crimes, and then a hashtag the what is your take on that? >> listen, we think, like the u.s. government believes a thofs these charge were trumped up. they werent working for the government, and then the people that they just mentioned in that -- you know, their free hashtag litany are all russian spies conducting activities that were illegal here in the u...

Ago tomorrow? or does this investigation include -- is there a criminal investigation into those who hatched the overall plot, not the plot to break windows and smear poop on the walls. the plot to stop the electoral count and keep trump in power. because thats what all the january 6th folks were doing in washington. they believed they were part of a larger plot, and indeed they were. and lots of people are happily confessing now to having been part of that larger plot or witnessing it when the ...

Ukraine. biden is facing a delicate balancing act and not a lot of evidence he has the savvy to navigate that. on the one hand he needs to show he has the willingness to confront russians in a way that would be sufficiently deterrent but also he cant rattle his saber so hard he risks escalating the situation further and he doesnt on the world stage have the credibility to thread that needle effectively, i dont think. >> benjamin: you get the feeling the only person who knows what putin will do i...

The headlines: lawyers for the mens tennis world number one novak djokovic are appealing to the federal court in australia to try to overturn a government decision to cancel his visa for a second time over covid rules. the matter will be heard on sunday morning. one of borisjohnson�*s ministers has called his behaviour unacceptable after downing street apologised to the queen for number 10 staff lockdown parties on the eve of prince philips funeral. the prime minister didnt attend either party...

Basically, if youre called, you can simply ignore it. and remember, that is one of the options that prince andrew potentially has, where he could default on this, he could ignore the court summons altogether, but he runs the huge risk of then it being ruled in his absence. and prince andrews team has said, as i mentioned, that this is a marathon, not a sprint, they have said that they are prepared to defend his name. washington and kyiv have accused russia of preparing to carry out "false sabota...