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With nato. they are against russia. they are aligned and theyre not budging at all. but will that last? if this things takes another ten days to get these troops in there, karl, will this alliance stay intact? >> i think the russians have miscalculated. i think nato has been strengthened by this. they recognize the threat of russia. take finland, for example, which during the entire cold war era was neutral between the west and russia. the leader of finland now says that if ukraine is invaded, f...

The governor in kyiv. there was the minsk agreement that would have given those territories autonomy but veto power including whether or not ukraine can control nato. that didnt work because frankly the ukranian government didnt want to go along with that play. they didnt want to concede their sovereignty, and you had this stalemate and during the time of stalemate the ukranian population turned more and more against russia and more and more now putin is taking the next logical step saying were ...

Geography and that is a threat not only against ukraine, thats a threat actually against every country that used to be part of the russian empire and the soviet union that includes finland and the baltic states but ukraine most importantly. thats the most important thing. he sounded resolved and he sounded like he was announcing to the world that the entire post cold war order has been cancelled. the other thing that he has been saying before and that he said today during the -- indicated today ...

His security council that macron told him ukraine was preparing fresh elections for those regions, that could be the sort of pretext that would justify, as you say, from moscow �*s protective, putting troops into those self—declared republics. —— from moscows perspective. potentially. britain has this whole time must to abide by the minsk records, a set of measures agreed when you claim at its weakest point in 2014 and 15. —— president putin has this whole time asked ukraine to abide...

Will lose their lives in the event of a full invasion, which could be coming in the coming hours. >> trace: moscow already supports these armed separatists in the break-away regions. in the days ahead, do you suspect that vladimir putin will send more forces in? >> its almost assured. he just laid out his reasoning for why he believes all of ukraine needs to be back and part of russia. what you signed after he signed this degree, the separatist leaders, those russian-backed public pets inside th...

November, the two new crossing points that we opened have not been put into operation, and we see this as an obstruction and a false pretext as ukraine is doing its best to push this discussion. the tcg, we have submitted the proposals and the drafts of law, but everything is blocked and no one is talking about them. ukraine demands urgently to unblock the negotiation process. at the same time, this does not mean that looking for peace is limited and restricted only by that. we are prepared to l...

Ways— to pressure thus far. in certain ways that _ to pressure thus far. in certain ways that has been good because he has not _ ways that has been good because he has not given any signals of any kind _ has not given any signals of any kind of— has not given any signals of any kind of belligerence, anything to be remotely— kind of belligerence, anything to be remotely perceived as provocative. but putin _ remotely perceived as provocative. but putin doesnt require anything substantially, ...

So they are asking moskow to help them defend themselves against this threat from kyiv. and, anderson, as you and others have noted president putin is so hung up on formality, on legalisms may want to use this, may see this as a as a pretext, as a justification to send his forces into the eastern part of the country, the forces he calls peace keepers. >> appreciate it. just ahead, president bidens next move. the chairman of the house intelligence committee joins us to discuss the possibility of ...

To react to that and whether hes going to unleash more terrible things in ukraine. >> and every evidence is that he will do that. jim sciutto is talking about the war on chechnya and how he has in the name of fighting terrorism when that was more fashionable in the world used that as a pretext to go after -- >> it does seem a desperate putin is a more dangerous putin. that certainly a big enough question mark it can change the calculus. >> this is a fine line for the biden administration. you wa...

-- by vladimir putin recognizing those as -- its not a justification accepted by anyone else, but there is an argument that he would make to say, hey, were sending people in. they requested our presence to go into these two places and protect russians over there. but you are talking about things happening north of kyiv, coming out of belarus or russia. there is no global justification for going into and highly separate country. at that point, is vladimir putin prepared to just give up the pretex...