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Army, 30,000 to 50,000 troops. they will have quite a tame taking it over and managing and occupying that country. and they have not yet been able to take any major population centers. alicia: the u.s. and its european allies continue to file on punishing sanctions against russia. the decision to remove russian banks from the international bank system known as swift. that caused the ruble to plunge 26%. joining me the director of international policy studies at stanford. ukraine is asking the u....

Belarus for holding -- accountable in helping in putins war of choice. we will choke off their ability and if his support for the war continues, the consequences for his regime will escalate. all told, these sanctions and restrictions have had a power effect on russias economy. the value of the ruble has plummeted. the russian stock market closed as fear of capital flight rose. interest rates more than doubled. russias credit rating has been cut to junk status. the value of president putins war ...

Have been outspoken and the pinch is being felt significantly in the russian economy. even if you look at the fact that the market was closed today. the ruble has been plummeting. so those are the ways that hes feeling this. he has a decision that he can make to deescalate and certainly we would welcome that decision. >> jen, does the white house belief its possible to say whether ukraine or russia are winning this war right now? >> i dont think were going to make an assessment of that right her...

American express are pulling out. you have to wonder if all the things being pulled away will create more upset in russia, turn the people against him and maybe that acts as another lever to stop this madness, but so far, hes acting as if it doesnt matter. you have a number of american companies having pulled things like netflix, apple, phones, now mastercard, visa and am ex. little by little russian people are seeing -- pull him back from the ledge. so far, of course, he is not stopping with th...

Signs of russian citizens making runs on the atms as interest rates jack up, as the ruble is devalued and the stock market is closed, you start to see the growth of an internal political opposition. at the end of the day, thats the only thing that really will act as a break upon vladimir putins aggression, is a russia population that says, are you kidding? why are we doing this? >> i appreciate your time this afternoon as youre back in washington having a busy week. thank you very much. were g...

True if you look at the academic literature, authoritarians usually do fall by people around them in their orbit. people that they have trusted. if you come at the king you about best not miss. if you come at putin your whole family is in jeopardy. this is something we might see down the line, jesse, it would be far too lucky for him to get pushed aside right now. >> jesse: i agree. way too early. lets game plan this out, jones, if they start chewing up russian soldiers in a vicious western fund...

That ukraine needs to defend itself get into the hands of ukrainians who are doing that. having said that, one of the things that we talked about at length today in our various meetings at nato and the eu was what more we can do and how to do it effectively and i would add, foreign minister clabya came into our meetings, were working on all of that every single day. . were also a week and change in to this horrific war wrought by russia. the -- weve had already a dramatic impact, far beyond, i t...

Conflict. i also wanted to note because there has been so much information we have been putting out and so many sanctions we have put into place some of the economic impacts that we are seeing in russia just to give you an update on that. we have made president putins war a strategic failure, unprecedented costs we have imposed have reversed 30 years of economic progress. something president putin himself pushed for, and that has happened in less than a month. our actions have hit hard at the th...

Feel like what you are going to see happening is an economic drain that is plunging russia into an afghanistan state where there is nothing there economically. now you have the kremlin threatening to seize the assets of companies that are leaving. sees their airline jets and $10 billion of assets. there what would you do with it? the ruble is in shambles and the economy is cratering. so what? >> thats a question and i saw some russian friends joking today that what are you going to do? take over...

And ferocity of the ukrainian army and itself people. not welcomed as liberators as he said they would be. he has undermined and miscalculated the resolve of nato and the west in terms of the overwhelming sanctions that have been leveed in a multilateral way, which the time and ferocity of them is more than ive seen in 30 years of foreign policy work. he said he didnt want troops along his border from nato and the united states. he has more troops now than ever before as a result of his actions....