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Our eyes. the biden administration is handing this as well as anybody possibly could. they have marshalled the allies, collectively. they have laid out sanctions. they have showed a little taste of what is to come in sanctionville with the announcement that luhansk and danesk, these two broken toy republics are, quote, independent, according to russia. sanctions are being imposed even as were doing this broadcast. all of that is what is necessary if were going to forestall an even bigger shock a...

Whatever claim moscow makes over them. russian-backed separatists control about a third of the donbas area, but until now, no government, including russia, formally recognized those self-declared republics as independent. ukrainians refer to them as invaders and occupiers. they refuse to talk to their leaders directly. russia has always maintained it had no soldiers on the ground there, but the us.s. and nato says the kremlin supplies the separatists and embeds their own officers inside their ra...

The precedent for taiwan, which is what the chinese are nervous about. imagine someone decided to recognize a movement by taiwan to be independent, apart from the rest of china. thats just what russia did in recognizing these republics in eastern ukraine. china has to be uneasy. we want to tell china it is going to make a bad situation worse in terms of our bilateral relationship if you come out wrong, plus you will be caught up in bad sanctions. if you keep doing business with russia as normal ...

Are those the only likely things to hurt putin most? >> look, the biden administration faces a difficult challenge, and theyre handling it carefully, deliberately, systematically, and i think basically intelligently. you are trying to punish putin for what he has done but also deter him for what he might do. both your previous guests pointed out the crucial issue is that putin has recognized these independent republics in a larger area than they currently control. so right now the reality is rus...

Of, for instance, support, they still played this game that there are rebels. so what they had and even the military actions were bad, were horrible for people, but they were limited. what now we have is russian troops in those so-called republics might mean that russia might use air force and navy, something the so-called rebels can buy on the free market. that is why ukrainians are taking it seriously, that it could be a different type of warfare. the decision by russia isnt to recognize those...

In to those two rebel held republics, donetsk and lugansk, recognised in moscow last night. he took pains to emphasise that there have been russian troops and forces in the donbas, eastern ukraine, since 2014, but he emphasised that in the past 24 hours, more have gone in. indeed, as he was speaking we were getting confirmation that russia has been authorised to send forces to that area. this, again, nearly 24 hours after that legal move by president putin. this will be regarded as let another e...

I hope that president putin listens hard to the prc in this instance. they have it right, sovereignty and territorial integrity, a countrys right to make its own choices is quite critical. >> a lot of us thought the russians were waiting until after the winter olympics in china to begin their invasion. the state department said today, as you well know, that the u.s. will no longer engage, and im quoting now, in a pretense of diplomacy. is the diplomatic path now officially dead? >> i dont think ...

Its? because there has been about he is usually cool and controlled, seems to have been abandoned last night. seems to have been abandoned last niuht. ~ ., seems to have been abandoned last niuht. ~ . ., ., night. well, earlier, we heard that in the peoples _ night. well, earlier, we heard that in the peoples republics _ night. well, earlier, we heard that in the peoples republics in - night. well, earlier, we heard that in the peoples republics in those l in the peoples republics in those regio...

What will happen next, what will come from the russian side and from those areas of ukraine that have now been recognized as independent states by moscow. there has been more diplomacy as well taking place, more shows of support for the ukrainian government, president zelenskyy of ukraine standing next to his lithuanian and polish counterparts, giving a press conference, saying this, the future of european security is being decided in ukraine. president zelenskyy praising the sanctions that have...

Tell the world about why he is invading ukraine. he has nothing to tell. and so thats what linda thomas-greenfield was saying when she was talking eloquently there at the security council. >> if it happens, fareed, lets say there is a full-scale invasion of ukraine right now by russia, then what happens? walk us through what you envisage. everybody seems to think there would be an enormous number of casualties, civilians and military, plus millions potentially, millions of of refugees. >> so as ...