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Rhetoric. we need to be the adults in the room. >> noah rothman, how do you compare the sabre rattling, the nuclear sabre rattling by putin, by lavrov, by people on russian state television, by russian diplomats? how does that compare to what we saw during the cold war with the soviets? >> it is very familiar, these kind of escalatory rhetoric is the stuff that makes you want to dust off the old playbook and see how the russians behaved. what is different about this conflict in many ways is that...

>> yeah. i mean, i think that thats exactly right, and yet president biden is pretty steadfast. take a listen about what he said just friday what it would mean for the u.s. to become more involved in ukraine. we dont have that bite, but he made it clear that it would be world war iii. right? so the question is, are we too concerned about the prospects of world war iii? has it already effectively begun? >> i dont think so. i think world war iii is nato against russia. what we have here is a confl...

Form an impeachment inquiry against strong and of course well bring you more on the story as details become available. turning an hour to on next story its been 4 and a half years since a saudi led coalition began a military intervention in yemen since then the countrys civil war has become a proxy conflict for regional powers saudi arabia and iran with yemeni civilians bearing the brunt of the suffering but the country already had plenty of problems before the war began women in yemen have long...

Neighbors often and so and try to get them to intervene as through diplomatic channels to get talks going try to sort of course to peaceful speace will steps forward the worse they they want to avoid is being to be drawn into this proxy conflict between the united states on one side and russia and also china on the other side so theyre sort of trying to sort of show we are a party we want peaceful change in venezuela with the good guys in this ride barbarism in brussels thank you very much for s...

United states backs the al tern tiff to the government. we want that government gone. this is the classic beginning of a proxy conflict. lets not forget next door to venezuela and colombia. united states provided a lot of security assistance. and this is after all the western hemisphere. to the monroe doctrine. united states says the united states will be the principle power in the west. no one can muck around in politics here. it does seem like its the beginning of a proxy conflict. those can b...

Proxy conflict. we saw this kind of thing in latin america all throughout the cold war, but frankly, we have seen it in the middle east, we have seen it in europe, we have seen it in asia, weve seen it all around the world, including in the post-cold war period. basically, you have the nominal sitting government of maduro, this is a successor to hugo chavez in venezuela, which is being backed with russia and china, with money, with weapons, politically and diplomatically. the united states has s...

And weakened over the recent domestic political losses and vulnerable to putins manipulation. >> what is very scary in all this is donald trump is a neophyte. when it comes to affairs. the kremlin is not. they are playing three dimensional chess. trump is a wrestler and can just over throw the trump table. >> it could draw them into a cold war style conflict. >> if the situation on the ground is violent. theres a real chance the out come will be decided by force. there is a very serious risk of ...

U.s. national security could be damaged if serious fis jusures emerge in the two mens relationship, that trump could be distracted and weakened over recent political losses and vulnerable to putins manipulation. >> i think what is very, very scary in all this is donald trump is a neophyte when it comes to geopolitical affairs. the kremlin is not. theyre playing three-dimensional chess. by contrast, trump is like a pro wrestler. all he can do is overthrow the chess table. >> reporter: experts war...

Good evening phil well we heard from petro poroshenko yesterday he shared some intelligence information with ukraine journals that seem to indicate a build up of russian tanks in recent weeks even ahead of this latest clash along ukraines borders thats a very hard to verify independently beyond that weve had official word from russia today that they are moving missile systems to crimea and also moving some weapon systems within crimea towards curch i think the really dangerous thing here is that...

Espouseds are cold mettle values. talking about economics above all else. laying that to bear explicitly in a way thats extraordinary to say the least. >> something to the real politic that hes talking about there valuable also. our security relationship with the saudis is paramount. the conduct of a rather distasteful warren yemen to the extent we dont want to involve ourselves is a proxy conflict. theyre conducting it so we dont have to. paramount to maintain the flow of traffic through gulf o...