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Spent traveling reports on the rising tension. the pentagon warning russia may be planning to create a pretext to just an invasion. senate security advisor and national security council chief of staff. thank you for taking time. i want to get right to your thoughts on the latest tensions on the ukraine border. specifically all of this chatter about the false flag russia may be planning for. >> great to be here. im not with the american first policy institute. you know, i am skeptical about this ...

In conflict this is called a false flag. when they designed to disguise their motive patient. this was said to be heres jake sullivan... we also are watching very carefully for the possibility that there is a pretext or a false flag operation to kick off the russian action in which russian intelligence services conduct some kind of attack on russian proxy forces in eastern ukraine or on russian citizens, and then lame it on the ukrainians. last month the uk an alleged plot by moscow to install a...

Afghanistan, for instance. you have isis-k which was responsible for that terrible attack on the abbey gate there at the kabul airport. and so, again, we saw abdullah was a chance to sort of provide not only an overarching structure for the larger organization but to be more directly involved in operations. >> are you concerned about a retaliatory strike from isis? >> we are always watching for threats by isis. i dont know -- we dont have any indication right now that there is some sort of retal...

Attack by the ukrainian army on russian separatists in eastern ukraine. officials have not released any direct evidence of that russian plan or how they learned of it. but its a question i put to the deputy national security adviserjohn finer. i asked him whether the us publicising russian troop movements or exposing these false flag operations would antagonise president putin further. what we are doing in putting out information about what we believe to be russian plans and options that russia ...

Very elaborate and detailed warning about what russia may be planning to do here. the lengths it might be willing to go to create a pretext to attack ukraine. now, john kirby, the pentagon press secretary, did say there that there is evidence that they may be preparing to make this video, that includes actors that are corpses in this video, that include fake mourners, that include explosions, all of this to make it seem like ukraine has actually attacked russia, or russian speakers in eastern uk...

Reveal those reported plans, which russia is denying. also, they say it is part of the bidens team smart diplomatic strategy to start a war. how so? >> oh, absolutely. i do not call it again, this is serious, deadly serious, but this is a moment where deterrence is the key. it is much easier to prevent the war than to get out of one, and for the united states, to use all the tools, as this administration is doing, deflect, economic and now, intelligence and revealing that publicly to deter russi...

Cause of this problem, and its mr. putin. its the russians. first they invaded ukraine in 2014, and now theyre threatening to invade again. so this -- lets be clear about where the problem is. the problem is not ukraine trying to defend itself. or nato trying to support ukraine defending itself, or the united states trying to support nato defending -- helping ukraine defend itself. the problem is russia, and no, i think the message has to be to mr. putin, do not invade. it will be a bad mistake ...

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In the dynamic after that call between presidents biden and putin. the us says it is unclear whether russia is interested in pursuing its goals through a diplomatic solution rather than through the use of force. so president biden was blunt about his intention to impose punishing economic sanctions — "swift and severe costs", he called them — if russia does further invade ukraine. and after the call, the kremlin�*s top foreign policy adviser said, "hysteria has reached its peak." now, as a...

Chinas abysmal human rights record. in particular focuses on the chinese government treatment of their muslim minority. in an obvious statement to critics, china elected have an opening ceremony torch carried by a cross-country skier who is part of chinas uighur population ethnic minority group victim to what the u.s. has appointed to genocide by the chinese government too. >> we should not allow chinese government whitewashed with a drink to that uighurs in the hong kong, the threat to taiwan r...