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One heavily underreported facet of the Ukrainian crisis revolves around Kiev’s immense mineral wealth.

Different possible deals. but, in fact, the ukrainian position has hardened and expanded. i mean, wanting now really total victory. wanting not just the donbas back, but also crimea. and i see no face-saving way for putin to climb down. certainly the stalemate militarily means both sides can stick to their demands. the more -- doing things like sending tanks helps putin with his domestic audience because his view this is a nato proxy war against russia. so the more nato does, the strong he gets....

A recipe for bad decision-making and unaccountable government. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. and lets get started. president zelenskyy turned 45 on wednesday and got one of his biggest birthday wishes when president biden announced that the united states will send 31 m-1 abrams tanks to help with the fight. dozens more leopard tanks will come from germany and other allies. ukraine had long been pleading for such heavy weapons from the west and the brea...

Settled down for a long war and essentially destroying ukrainian civilian infrastructure, hoping to effectively defeat the ukrainian nation rather than the army. >> well, i think that is correct. putins entire political future is tied to ukraine which is what he wants to do. to restore the great russia empire. that he sees as his destiny and talks about a life and death struggle. and there is no sign of him backing down and no sign of ukrainians to surrender. >> stay with us. when we come back, ...

That is going to take some months, at best, to make some sort of effective fighting units out of this. and that will make it more possible for the ukrainians first to resist the new russian offensive that is going to come at some point in time and then perhaps to be able to reconquer or take back some of the territory that russia has tried to steal from them. >> kishore, do you think that this play pushes russia in a direction where it is more likely to negotiate? so far president putin has not ...

Cat and moussaoui at any point in time could erupt into something much bigger. irans calculation is that the west has a lot more to lose in a major crisis in the middle east than iran has. in other words, theyre calculating on the fact with ukraine going on and china going on, last thing the biden administration and europeans want is a third major war in the middle east, and that, in fact, by escalating -- if they get netanyahu to start saber rattling of his own, that is a benefit to tehran. jus...

Was so many predictions that europes past will be asias future, all of the wars will be in asia. paradoxically, there have been no major war in asia since 1979, 43 years and it is now at europes doorstep. and i only say this because it is important to do some deep reflection. because wars are also at the end of day a result of political incompetence of some kind and there needs to be some deeper reflection on why is it in so many doors on europes doorstep and peace, these are big questions. >> w...

Mein while farmers plant for crops and some ukraine grain was able to get to market after the u.n. helped broker a deal whereby russia allowed ukrainian exports on condition of inspections in turkey. and luck in the form of good weather. an usually warm winter has required let heating fuel to be burned. it is worth noting one other factor. russian exports of energy and fertilizer and food declined less than was expected when the war began. partly this was because concern sanctions including carv...

And meanwhile farmers plant for crops and some ukraine grain was able to get to market after the u.n. helped broker a deal whereby russia allowed ukrainian exports on condition of inspections in turkey. one more thing thats brought down energy and food prices is luck, in the form of good weather. an usually warm winter has required let heating fuel to be burned and favorable conditions have yielded strong harvests. it is worth noting one other factor. russian exports of energy and fertilizer and...

But, in fact, the ukrainian position has hardened and expanded. i mean, wanting now really total victory. wanting not just the donbas back, but also crimea. and i see no face-saving way for putin to climb down. certainly the stalemate militarily means both sides can stick to their demands. the more -- doing things like sending tanks helps putin with his domestic audience because his view this is a nato proxy war against russia. so the more nato does, the stronger he gets. so i dont see the actua...