assessment? yes, i think that china cane help but notice we have imposed a lot more pain on russia than we even expected to ourselves and we have continued to develop more plans to impose more pain. in fact, as you know, the european union is working towards a ban on importing russian oil which would take perhaps some time to implement, but that is being worked on right now, and then russian gas is the longer term issue that might also come in our cross hairs, i think china has to notice that. china also noticed we did not go to ukraine s direct military defense. we chose not to fight on behalf of a country with which we don t have a formal alliance. i agree on president biden s decision. it does make china wonder if we can fight taiwan. there are multiple lessons that are being considered by beijing, not all at which point in the same direction in terms of risk calculus. one of the key components that has provided a critical
vladimir putin s war, he has chosen to make this attack. i think some decisions bike nato made this more likely, i don t blame us at our moral level. vladimir putin has decided, his big addictiveness and pettiness about ukraine making its own choices as a sovereign state justify the attack. my other point is i think it was foreseeable that many russians would act this way and we should be more creative with some of our previous approaches but that does not make us morally guilty of the war which is vladimir putin s. having said that we have to help the ukrainian super themselves. what we re doing now is quite considerable and quite a bit more than simply offering to help sweden and finland defend their own territory. in terms of the risk calculus, in terms of the risk calculus, in terms of what is really dangerous here, i think it is the war in ukraine that is far and above the more concerning. it is interesting the more concerning. it is interesting to the more concerning. it is i
are in a different risk category than children who are vaccinated. most americans have chosen not to vaccinated their kids. but for those persons with kids underage five, that is a different risk calculus. but there are things that we could do to help make the workplace safer for parents, if kids of that age and that includes a good testing regime to make sure when you re coming into the office you re around other people who are testing negative or making sure that people are using masks and washing their hands in the workplace. those things could still matter but it is important for every parent to make that decision in light of their own circumstances. but recognize that this is a higher risk category. but doctor ramirez, when we look at the way this efgts children, we re seeing a rise in hospitalizations, the numbers were so low to begin with. so 4% might sound scare but it is not a big number of kids who are being hospitalized with this. and i just wonder if this is a bit over th
making a risk calculus, and part of that calculus is how strong is the united states? how strong are we internally? how committed are we to the rules based order that we set up. the reason why we kept this system in place is because it allowed the world economy to flourish, to avoid world wars for decades and we did it. we led it. we re at the heart of it, our own instability does harm our foreign policy. and our adversaries around the world are watching very closely. they watch things like january 6th, very closely. they re watching our upcoming elections very closely. we have to understand our democracy is the linchpin for so much of what happens around the world. and we protect it here at home first. i want to ask you about another issue close to your heart. that is suicide among u.s. military veterans. you you co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to create a pilot program to help prevent veteran suicides. i wonder, i speak to a lot of veterans and i heard that
with all those forces it would be the largest invasion since world war ii. it would change the world. joining me now former nato command wesley clark now a cnn military analyst. we are so glad to have you on this evening. thank you so much, general. this video shows more u.s. weapons arriving in ukraine including 300 javelin anti-tank missiles. president biden says he may be moving troops soon. is that a risky strategy? no, i think it is an absolutely essential strategy because you have to change the risk calculus of vladimir putin. he s considering going into ukraine. we don t know if he made a decision. we are in the early stages still where he is juggling and duking and feinting and punching for political advantage. maybe he can make ukraine collapse, make nato come apart. at the bottom of it is hard