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Taken. the cleansing or genocide against russians in eastern ukraine followed by the political formal recognition of these republics, that basically gives putin whatever pretext he wants to say that he has to invade ukraine to defend these territories and to frankly avenge and the reality is that putin has followed a play that he frankly could have designed months ago. hes not altered his playbook because of those declassifications. what he tones to accomplish is by our ability to rally our alli...

That he plans to recognize some of the contested areas in ukraine as separatist republics. today, president bidens national security adviser added this. >> we also have intelligence to suggest that there will be an even greater form of brutality, because this will not simply be some conventional war between two armies, it will be waged by russia on the ukrainian people, to repress them, to crush them, to harm them. >> new satellite pictures show vehicle tracks indicating russian tanks and suppor...

Audience now? right now this has been moving fits and starts every day. today is russia recognizing the independent republics opens the door for them to invite his russian troops in to bring the battle lines that much closer to kyiv-controlled ukraine. the biden administration has been declassifying evidence, trying to act quickly to cut off putins plans at the pass before he can exercise them. so theyve been primarily occupied with doing that. there have been public statements made to the ameri...

The president listened, but looked like a man whod already made up his mind. later, he addressed the nation. translation: the essence i of the aggressive, nationalistic character of the regime that seized power in kyiv hasnt changed. i consider it necessary to immediately recognise the independence and sovereignty of the donetsk and luhansk peoples republics. act two, the signing ceremony. the leaders of the rebel republics were already in moscow. they clearly knew what president putins decision...

That is something she was very worried about, people are very emotional about leaving fathers, sons, husbands and brothers, all in those territories, many of them signing up to the military with no certainty about what might happen to them. caroline davies reporting from taganrog. we can now speak to max seddon, who is the moscow bureau chief at the financial times. would russian backed forces try to move out of the areas in those republics which are now held by ukrainian forces, how hard would ...

Other cities, as your correspondent just noted, he may intend to break up, encircle the ukrainian army but how to rule after that i think is a big conundrum because the grainy people shown there like to move into a insurgency phase at that point. he can attempt to negotiate away his military gains once he has achieved them but even there its hard for me to imagine a ukrainian government in exile agreeing to russian demands like recognition of those independent republics or the annexation of crim...

Possible miscalculation of vladimir putin, and that is the extent and strength of protest. protesters in georgia today are rising up against vladimir putins invasion. georgia of course was under attack by vladimir putin in 2008. the georgian government has condemned russias invasion, but it has not joined other countries in imposing sanctions. so robin, this protest is not going to quiet anytime soon? >> that is right. i think that you will find some very interesting reactions among the former r...

In europe. its still up to $100 a barrel. you make it interesting point. when this was a war that was going to impatient, that was going to be about eastern your crane, areas that russia said are disputed. they have declared independent republics, that was one thing, but when you look at the map of where russia has attacked, where we have confirmed and reported russian attacks, there is stuff in the west of ukraine right near the polish border. there is stuff near muddle the. their attacks in a ...

Speech on monday was very similar to a couple of speeches that adolf hitler gave in 1938 about czechoslovakia and recognizing these two republics in eastern ukraine which is like what happened in 1968. you name your friends and then they invite you in and that is the pretext for why you are invading. so this is not like the cold war, it is not a global conflict, it is one power that wants to bring a structure down and a bunch of other western countries who are trying to make that more difficult....

A fundamental point about diplomatic war, is that china clearly, economically has to be careful not to be -- not to suffer from secondary sanctions. more trade issues, if it is seen to too openly support russia. on the other hand, of course, growing the lines between president xi and president putin. and we heard -- i will just finish with this, we heard that fascinating answer from president biden when he was asked a day or so ago whether america is putting pressure on china. he said i dont wan...