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Rhodes told me in 2014, hey, we had a whole bunch of intelligence we never sent out. now theyre saying all this. we see how similar the playbook is in 08. do you look at any of this today and wonder if only we did "x" or were we always going to end in this situation because we couldnt -- there was no pretext before he did what he did in georgia? >> when he went into georgia, we consciously said we need to deny him his tactical objectives and to make him pay a strategic price, because if we did n...

The east and cross over into russia. they fear the rising tensions will be used as a pretext for russia to launch an attack. cnn is mobilizing its people and experts around the world. jim sciutto is on the western edge of the country. >> pam, according to the latest u.s. intelligence assessment, orders have been sent to russian tactical commanders to precocee with an invasion to ukraine. with direct knowledge of the intelligence telling myself and my colleague natasha. we should be clear this is...

Russian tanks are on the move despite the appearance of heavy artillery. moscow claims it is peacekeeping forces and breakaway territories years of fighting from russian back separatists. >> bill: one is called donetsk and one called luhansk. putin deemed both of them independent from ukraine. the west calling it a pretext for a full scale invasion of that country. >> dana: the white house responding to that decree with a narrow executive order prevents americans to invest in those areas. nothin...

But we used their intent. we made it public, and we said, "no, youre not going to give us a pretext. youre going to go to war. its your decision. you are doing that." and i think.... just before we... because id very much like to pursue that thought about the strategy the white house has adopted. butjust on the question of your understanding, i have no expectation, it would be quite wrong, and you wouldnt do it to give us any detail of what you were told in confidence. sure. and you cant be expe...

Threat. where history will be a pretext for border revision. and this is a receipt for disaster. >> one of the great unanswered questions in all of this is is why is vladimir putin bringing this to a head now? whats triggering him into making such moves at this particular point. for no apparent obvious reason. >> i see two reasons. one is that putin was not able to achieve his goal in ukraine by crippling ukraine. and using conflicts in the east. as a leverage to federalize ukraine and make it w...

Putin to give them support because they fear ukrainian aggression and obviously this is concerning because this is the false pretext for war that many feared would come. and it does appear to have now suddenly arrived, so as was said at the un today when i say this was discussed at great length, the crisis was discussed at great length chemist is now a great moment of peril for the whole world, and obviously i think there will be emergency meetings tomorrow to find a way to approach the next few...

Planning and is part of the reason why we havent seen an invasion yet, because it has forced him to engage in creating what is clearly a false pretext. but it is required that he is going through this elaborate process to try to flip the script and ensure that at least some people inside russia and some sympathetic communities, china, braziland communities, china, brazil and argentina communities, china, braziland argentina can clean on to this narrative so that russia isnt as isolated. but i th...

This, but these are not soldiers here. these are not soldiers. these are civilian residents. [interpreter] e are and vladimir putin, because obviously we know what happens when an authority or leader can manufacture a narrative, and then use that narrative as a pretext for a invasion, certainly for a confrontation. how do you confront that? how does a society, and a country, combat disinformation on a level that russia has done? they seem to have perfected the science of disseminating lies and s...

So, that is where math is right now. you can see it, right where it says dnieper river, right around there is where the city of dnipro actually is. i just want to check if matt is there still, well go to matt just a second to talk about this. i will fill you and while were waiting for him. what you see on the eastern side of the map are these two regions, dont yes and luhansk. both of them have cities and, them donetsk and luhansk. but theyre also provinces, you hear them referred to as dom blas...

The administration has made a number of statements about russias intentions, the potential false flag operations. does the white house feel its making its case? has it made its case? >> i think one thing theyve done successfully is calling out these false flag operations in advance rather than waiting for them to happen and trying to convince the world something happened. telling the world beforehand, we think theyre trying to provoke something with secret forces or some sort of video or what ha...