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From the states. to shore up the eastern flank of nato. was that a smart move or not? >> yes. but it should have been done at the first provocation. the first provocation was in the spring. that was the beginning of a test for president biden from absolutely convinced of it. we put close to one 30,000 troops on the ukrainian board event. we should have done as a result of that is significantly increase our advisors to help the ukraine. we made the policy statement which i support, we are not goi...

Which is im not going to war in ukraine. there has to be some sort of provocation, and that could very well happen along any of the three border areas that the correspondents have just reviewed. >> david, do you think the technique of revealing the u.s. intelligence about putin and namely the false flag operations to try and make it appear that theres ukrainian aggression, do you think that putting the intelligence out there has worked in terms of forcing putins hand to change tactics? >> well, ...

Manufactured crisis this is to begin with, and they cant pretend there was a provocation on the part of the ukrainians. >> yeah, glad you brought that up. the u.s. intelligence has been warning about that for a couple weeks, and during friday with the eye opening appearance of the secretary at the press briefing. >> in advance of a kinetic or military movement into ukraine by russia, one thing is cyberattacks. that could occur in ukraine. we could see it in different ways, like the internet stop...

It seems that the russian diplomats, russian officials have left the door open to diplomacy, perhaps they will seek some kind of diplomatic solution, but as i said before, with such a build up of military hard ware on the border, the slightest provocation it could escalate out of control and perhaps the russian officials are seeking to blame the west in order to start a confrontation. i guess it is very difficult to say, because even as one russian oligarch told me, the decisions are being taken...

Worked. your thought on that. >> a lot of talk and no action. no deterrence. passive deterrence at best. weve been advocating for active sanctions. its an act of provocation even before an invasion. why did he wave nord stream 2 pipeline sanctions that congressman dated in the national security of the united states allows putin to build his pipeline in to europe? this was the beginning of this down fall. then we had afghanistan. putin looked at that and thought now is the time. president xi in c...

What we have now is a checkmate situation. i think the president of the united states and our nato allies have made clear that russia will pay a very heavy price if they invade. i think putin, as a result of that, is facing a very difficult decision as to whether or not he wants to invade and incur that heavy price that weve indicated would take place. so, weve got a situation of checkmate right now. which doesnt mean that its not dangerous. it still is dangerous. it could involve a miscalculati...

Tension, even increase provocation as we see in the black sea today. but the russians halting movement in large areas of the black sea. more intimidation, but no invasion. that is the best case. the west has to prepare itself for both the dirksen areas of a full—scale war in the nasty scenario though not quite as awful of continued pressure and intimidation designed to achieve prudent�*s aim to crush ukrainian independence and sovereignty but without the the full—scale war. lets take a loo...

Military engagement. i think the president gives good advice when he says to americans that its appropriate for you to leave now. we dont have an exact time line. but it would be imminent. mr. putin in this case can make up his own mind as to when he is going to invade. we know that he has done everything to set up for a major engagement. he has multiple options available to him in ternls of what -- in terms of what he is going to do. the president is correct when he says if we were to step in i...

Carrying out exercises. but this is very dangerous. they could be setting up this idea of provocation that would induce them to take military action. >> they could, but, colonel, they have 100,000, more than 100,000 troops along the border of ukraine. we know there are 30 now, more than 30 warships for russia in the black sea, they say, because they are conducting some military exercises. but this is not business as usual by any means. so, when we talk about this upcoming conversation that presi...

To invade ukraine and it could result in thousands of troop casualties mostly on the ukraine side but both sides. china unveiled on friday a new plan of a new world order, not led by them but the united states. here is former ambassador to israel, david friedman. well get to your book in a moment, sledgehammer. that is the important to what were seeing in ukraine right now. 72 hours, putin is staring down ukraine. where do you see this going? >> a couple weeks ago one of your colleagues asked pr...