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There will be severe costs to russia should they take such a horrible action. >> the nato leader, jens stoltenberg said yesterday on "meet the press" that as horrible as that would be, the real focus of nato has to be to prevent a wider war between nato and russia. but is the use of chemical weapons a red line for the united states? >> i think the use of chemical weapons is of great concern to the entire world. we have all said that the use of chemical and biological weapons is unacceptable in a...

So, we are concerned partly because we see the rhetoric and we see that russia is trying to create some kind of pretext, accusing ukraine, united states, nato allies for preparing to use chemical and biological weapons. and we have seen before that this way of accusing others is actually a way to try to create a pretext to do the same themselves. and, of course, their accusations against ukraine and nato allies are absolutely false. germanys chancellor, 0laf scholz, warned russia against any use...

Saw in the report there, but also the citizens admirable who are living in unthinkable conditions, it doesnt change much for them. theyre still intense fighting on the ground in those cities. one thing is clear that russian forces are under great strain in parts of the country. but despite their bizarre pretext for invading ukraine and trying to de-nazify the country, president putin has said this many times, its terrorized many ukrainians, a quarter of a country made homeless, refugees because ...

Plotting in this area or having, you know, i guess labs that may be developing those types of weapons, that sort of thing without offering any evidence, and that that could be used as a pretext for putin, for the russians to use those types of weapons. what are your thoughts on that? how does that -- how does that sound to you? >> yeah, that all -- that all really does make sense. you dont have to go back too far. you can go back to the syrian war to see that thats -- theres a lot of those tacti...

All of ukraine to accomplish his goals. he doesnt need western ukraine. a place where people who dont want to be in his new republics or in a territory that he annexes. people from those regions can go into this western ukraine and he can be rid of them. >> general, weve heard from the white house. theyve warned that putin may try to use chemical weapons in his attack of ukraine. there is fear this is going to get worse before it ends with russia potentially manufacturing a pretext to unleash th...

Inmaterial to putin. theyre neutral now. theyre neutral to when crimea was seized. being neutral hasnt helped before. what do you make of this? >> yeah, i think it is also important, though, to look at donetsk, too, because putin certainly did not get resistance, violent resistance in crimea but from 2014, you know, i dont think there was some popular uprising in the donbas region to want to join russia. i think the russians stirred up and really sent people in to the donbas to stir up russian s...

Accused the united states of, you know, of the aids virus being something that the pentagon thought up and so something needed to be done about that. so this is -- the russians have been doing this for decades. theyre very good at it, and when you confront them and say, wait a minute, you guys made that pretext, theyll sort of say i know you are but what i am. its very predictable and its what they always do. >> it is what they always do and i suspect we may see more of it in the coming days. st...

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Nothing has been changed in the u.s.s own posture but on those chemical weapons the u.s. officials have really been warning for days that russia could employ chemical weapons, and theyve -- while they havent outlined the evidence showing that, they have been pointing to these false accusations from russia that the u.s. and ukraine and other governments are preparing or planning to launch chemical weapons of their own, warning those false flag operations may essentially spark russia or create thi...

Its little wonder chernihiv is being called the next mariupol. the opposite end of the country, but an almost identical humanitarian catastrophe. and as a unit, that first began as a far-right voluntary group still holds the center of the city. one of its fighters speaks to me from an undisclosed location in mariupol. putins pretext for invading ukraine, for starting this war, was to the nazify the country. was he talking about you? >> me and my comrades, calling us neo-nazis, far right wing, ul...