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Russi russian aggression, sharing our intelligence nearly in realtime and exposing president putins lies, we were ready. in fact, one reason why were seeing the unified response now is because we made the decision late last year to publicize to the world what we knew was underway and the playbook we were convinced russia would follow. i went to the u.n. security council to walk through step by step the pretext for war we were sure putin would invent and the subsequent military invasion he planne...

Levels of the russian government. how has this disinformation been accelerated and amplified online? >> yeah, they feed on each other. its a chicken or the egg situation with this kind of thing now. for example, ukraine creating bioweapons. that is an old conspiracy theory from the russians. they did it to deflect every time theyve launched some sort of chemical attack, in the uk, they blamed ukraine bioweapons and said, maybe the u.s. are the people making the novichok here. somewhere in europe...

>> yeah, that account was an anti-vax account. thats the remaining legacy of the anti-vax spaces on the internet. they are conforming to be part of the broader global far-right to push these conspiracy theories against the bidens, against anthony fauci, i guess what they call the medical establishment all throughout the world. the global far-right has coalesced around that. and it works for russia, to. in fact, the russian news agency, didnt pose anything about biological weapons attacks that we...

Effort to stop putin or if you want to say cancel putin or sanction putin or punish putin, whatever term, its all clear live justified. he demonstrated himself to be, you know, directing war crimes currently against the ukrainian people. the only reason theres any truth to his statement about cancelling russia is because putin is willing to use the russian people as a sword and a shield. he used them as a sword or pretext to say im doing this special operation to protect you, the russian people....

Forestall that. how are we process talking about this intelligence that suggests that the russians may be dangling loose language about chemical weapons in ukraine as a pretext for their own chemical weapon attack in that country? >> i think the objectives are to intimidate the population in ukraine. the ukraine leadership to compel them to capitulate and to signal to the u.s. that unless it plays a constructive role in putting pressure on ukraine to end the war it could go to weapons of mass de...

Know, putin, as i say, is trapped, and i dont want to give him a pretext for widening this attack, and moving into poland. anderson, theres something behind all of this that really needs to be discussed, and that is that the russians have a much lower threshold for using nuclear weapons than anybody else in the world that i know of. they actually have a doctrine called escalate to deescalate. this has been their announced strategy for some years, and that means using tactical nuclear weapons if ...

Russia of blocking necessary information from the people of mariupol as if anyone can spread the truth and remind that ukraine is with them. i am joined by the former translator for the former ukrainian president. i want to talk about these outright lies that are being perpetrated by the kremlin accusing ukraine of having secret chemical facilities and accusing ukraine of essentially being the aggressor. all of these lies are filtering beyond them and may not be working on ukrainians but working...

Scientists after 2005 until about 2014 in a very similar way with labs on their own territory. so, it -- its very clear that they are lying. but it could be a pretext to sow confusion. for them to take action of whatever sort they might like to -- to take. >> you know, the russians have used chemical weapons before. they used novichok in a number of attempted assassinations but on the battlefield, chemical weapons for the most part are just weapons of terror, right? there are far more effective ...

The ukrainian president is jewish. he is left with only that kind of wild accusation because all of his other efforts to create a pretext for this envags failed in large part because of the work by the united states intelligence. >> to pick up on what they have pointed out, it is not a symmetry of tactics. it is also complete cohesion of message and i remember watching donald trump i think it was that first trip. hr mcmaster was national security adviser. i understood at the time that the trip w...

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