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Vladimir putin laying out his plans and nobody thought to arm ukraine and provide them the ability to fight back if this happens? >> well, we made terrible mistakes. this started in march with 70,000 troops there. all we talked about was rhetoric. imagine march of 2021 when there were 70,000 troops we hit them with hard sanctions then. thats the provocation to put troops on the border of a country. that is intimidation. we have the right to hold them accountable for that. we made the decision we...

Place are often step one. and then trying to make an assessment about what kinds of risks americans who are working in the various missions, consulates, and embassies around the world might face. so well follow on that. certainly, the u.s. position today is looking at what is this new provocation from vladimir putin and that video address where he talks about the high alert for his nuclear forces. and basically, the response from administration officials has been to call it a manufactured event....

Putin has a real problem here. his first told his people that there is no way hes going to invade ukraine. now he has invaded ukraine without any kind of provocation whatsoever. i think russians are going to have something to think about in coming days. >> well russians see this as an invasion of ukraine? our reporting so far rip reports that there is no russian movement beyond where they already were in certain separatist areas of ukraine. >> i think what mr. putin is trying to do, at least at ...

Already three battle groups, one in each of the countries, thats a small force but a very significant force. much more than symbolic because if they set foot across those borders and attack on one is an attack on all. thats the article v, thats the co cornerstone. >> youve served under both republican and democratic presidents. a remarkable dynamic here that as russia invades a sovereign country without provocation, we have americans cheering putin, praising him, including a former president in ...

On given the potential threat. when 70,000 troops showed up on ukraines border, bill, in march of 2021, that is a significant provocation by the russians which justifies our enhancing ukraines defensive capability. what did we do? there was a shipment that was going to go into ukraine that was put together by the trump administration and they delayed it until august. thats set the pattern for russia seeing that look, here is the united states, they arent all in here. and that is not deterrents. ...

This way to unite for peace. and i would venture that many of the people in this room were not born when that happened. but a few of the eldest ukrainians and russians might recall a moment like this, a moment when one aggressive european nation invaded another without provocation to claim the territory of its neighbor. a moment when a european dictator declared he would return his empire to its former glory, an invasion that caused a war so horrific that it spurred this organization into existe...

About european values. do you think authoritarianism or those european values of civilisation, as you put it, are going to prevail? i think european civilisation is going to prevail. authoritarian rule based on military power, now what we see is a dictatorship, is not part of the european heritage we have to safeguard and take forward. i dont believe that this is a government of the future. its not what people want. people are turning away from this. people want freedom, people want human rights...

The russians lost huge numbers of those tanks, people and so this is going to really help the ukrainians be that much more lethal and drive home the message that putin is getting loud and clear that he wandered into a boxed canyon and needs to think about a quick way out of it. >> you have no objection to jets being delivered to -- to planes being delivered to the ukrainians if its in a way that the white house doesnt feel is a provocation. >> that is my view and been adamant and explaining to p...

Well, i mean, 2022 is still different from 1939, and the worlds ability to absorb war, to accept victims, to consider something as acceptable and not acceptable has changed over this, like, 83 years. so, of course, we have to, like, adjust our impression, our perception to this difference between 2022 and i939. still, putin, without any provocation, without any rational reason, isjust starting a major war against another european country, publicly declaring his desire to destroy it. and it doesn...

>> i do. i think the president has been very clear about where we will fight and wont fight. this is really important in terms of escalation when you have two nuclear powers. we are absolutely in a proxy war but not facing off against the rus russians. there is a lot of calls obviously for setting up a no fly zone. that puts the quite in direct conflict with russians, which is something we want to avoid if we want to avoid nuclear war. so i think if we want to continue to help ukraine, this is p...