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Wondering whether this is going to mean. they are seeing no more flights to egypt for vacation, and all of the things that they have come to take for granted because its a 24 century society, and that is going away. but this is another part of russia that hasnt enjoyed the same prosperity. and putins propaganda is pretty strong there. so i think its going to take more than that. >> you write this in your book, putin did want to own ukraine but didnt want ukraine to be fully independent either. h...

They took away his presidency at the international jiu-jitsu organization. so he is in trouble. he is isolated. >> i do not see any way right now that he does not just plunge ahead deeper into brutality. >> its a proxy war with us in putins mind, and yet the ukrainians are standing alone. >> peter, what are you hearing from the white house about the future of this war. >> they want to give some time for these economic sanctions to begin to suffocate the russian economy. >> we have seen some rema...

>> 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...

Insurgency that after many, many years sends russia packing is the model. were watching a proxy war. ukraine wanted biden to send them the iron dome missile defense system. this is the joint venture between the united states and israel. israel and the united states shot that down. the biden administration and the israelis said they didnt want to anger russia. didnt want to defend themselves be a no-fly zone. iron dome. so while innocent ukrainian families are dying. putins forces are getting pre...

Continue. why is that? because its good for the military-industrial complex. what makes these politicians look tough and it allows them to have this proxy war with russia, something hillary clinton laid out just recently, what their aims are. this war machine, this power elite in washington. they want to turn ukraine into another afghanistan, turn it into a killing field for this long term insurgency is supported and they bleed out and cripple -- kill as many russians as possible for who knows h...

Lets get into this. >> okay. >> you say that theres a major power conflict going on here, and that there is a broader confrontation between -- brewing between the west and russia. broader, how is that? what do you mean? >> well, i mean, its the end of the peace dividend. you remember we talked about that when the wall came down, and for 30-plus years now, the world has been able to spend less on defense, has been able to focus more on the economy in europe, focus more on the social contract, tha...

Ukraines just some proxy war for the fight against us. he has no love for america. he has no love, no respect for our laws and our ways, therefore we have to be extremely careful in dealing with him. common citizens, you know, traveling there, businesses there, and of course the president of the united states in trying to avoid worst case scenarios as putin becomes increasingly erratic in his behavior. >> in fact, as i look at your "washington post" op-ed. rationale leaders do not blink at a nuc...

Falls within our jurisdiction and we are either going to freeze your bank accounts, otherwise blacklist these financial entities and that is the power of the united states. because we are the financial leaders of the world. >> bill: that would take a lot further than what trumpets try to do during his time. which was the tariffs that were applied to all of chinese products. >> michael: it would be a big escalation paired but listen, if its true, what weve seen this week that the chinese are actu...

Russian national television at nauseum and will reinforce what putin tells his people is that hes fighting us in ukraine. i think people really need understand this is a proxy war for his fight against us. thats the way he frames this. the regime is a puppet, american regime put in place by us. so, those kind of quips help with him explaining the war at home and doing that at the same time, as you just reported, that the information space in russia is increasingly closing. he just cut -- putin j...

The russian friends. >> we are communicating directly, privately to beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large scale sages invasion efforts, or support to russia to backfill them. >> jesse: anthony tata is a retired army brigadier general. if we find out that the chinese are fighting a proxy war on the european continent, you know, a supplying a war criminal with weapons on natos borders? thats pretty much game over. what would you expect biden administrations response to be th...