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THE STANDARD By Mireri Junior | February 19th 2021 at 11:05:30 GMT +0300 Former UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi during a press conference at Serena Hotel in Nairobi on Sunday, February 14 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard] Former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale has claimed former UNCTAD Secretary-General Dr Mukhisa Kituyi is lying to Kenyans that he left his job to come and save them yet it is his tenure that was coming to an end. Speaking on Thursday during a talk show on KTN News TV, K...

THE STANDARD By Mireri Junior | February 19th 2021 at 11:05:30 GMT +0300 Former UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi during a press conference at Serena Hotel in Nairobi on Sunday, February 14 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard] Former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale has claimed former UNCTAD Secretary-General Dr Mukhisa Kituyi is lying to Kenyans that he left his job to come and save them yet it is his tenure that was coming to an end. Speaking on Thursday during a talk show on KTN News TV, K...

George osbeen o-- osborne and alastair campbell. the prime minister of canada was a deceiving guy who one of hid aides said theres a special place in hell for. he cant seem to get -- hes so excited to meet putin just as he was to meet kim jong-un. does all this matter? it does feel like he really doesnt particularly care for the western alliance. >> it does matter. it makes the u.s. less reliable partner for western countries like my own. of course, the atmosphere drives the media agenda. all of...

Russian diplomats that have been expelled ever, certainly since the end of the cold war. and so its a major act of western unity in the face of what is generally believed to be confrontational russian behavior. the poisoning is only one example of that. the big question is is it going to be enough to change russias behavior, or is it just going to antagonize russia to enter into more confrontation with the west? we just dont have the answers yet. >> matthew chance for us in moscow. thank you ver...

You from doing so. hes done that before with other countries and hes repeating that threat again. >> all right, i want to get your reaction to senator john mccains comments this week comparing vladimir putin to isis. take a listen. >> i think he is the premiere and most important threat, more so than isis. i view vladimir putin whos dismembered ukraine, a sovereign nation, who is putting pressure on the baltics. i view the russianing as the far greatest challenge that we have. >> so is that too ...

Could care less whether the eu comes apart or stay together. but thats not the view of the mainstream who sees it as a bulwark of western unity. this election is just fascinating because macron has gone further than hillary clinton did in 2016 in essentially embracing the idea of global cooperation and kind of economic and political integration and kind of made this a starker choice where i think this is -- this, by the way, this does reflect the big choice facing democrats going forward. do you...

Some people were concerned about. with german natural gas companies. have relationship with russia. goes through ukrainian territory. they continue to be allied with russia. therefore, create problems for western unity. and in fact what we see is there is movement from the european side as well. i dont think a republican president, or even john mccain. if he were president. would be able to do anything more than what obama is doing. there are foreign policy thorns in the garden. with the russian...

Reverse flow of natural gas into ukraine. some people were concerned about. with german natural gas companies. have relationship with russia. goes through ukrainian territory. they continue to be allied with russia. therefore, create problems for western unity. and in fact what we see is there is movement from the european side as well. i dont think a republican president, or even john mccain. if he were president. would be able to do anything more than what obama is doing. there are foreign pol...

Have energy dependency. western unity is anything but a reality and hard to make it a reality which is something in putin knows. this is not about ukraine. its about the nature of international relations and how politics will play out and what is the ability for countries to use force to change maps with impunity and what is the character. if you remember, right after the cold war ended, when saddam hussein did that against kuwait you cant change the map and absorb this country into your own. no...

Absolutely essential that the west unite. >> that was former secretary of state madeleine albright. here on "morning joe" yesterday. joining us from hartford senator chris murphy. also with us nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" at noon time on msnbc, andrea mitchell. id like you to take it to the table and bounce off what secretary albright said because if this escalates, a lot of people have sort of some sort of understanding that this is a contained i...