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CNN State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash January 9, 2022 17:05:00

possibility, you must -- possibilities, you must be worried about creating a precedent in which putin at any moment can throw 100,000 troops on a border and threat on it invade a country until the u.s. gives him some of what he wants, the very scenario you referred to when you said russia had a gun to ukraine's head. >> exactly the opposite, jake. first of all, why are we here? we're here because repeatedly over the last decade, russia's committed acts of aggression against neighbors, georgia, moldova, ukraine in 2014 and the renewed threat about ukraine today. second, there are large principles at stake that go to the fundamentals of international peace and security. the principle that one country can't change the borders of another by force. the principle that one country can't dictate to another its foreign policy and the choices including with whom it will associate, the principle that one country can't exert a sphere of influence to subjugate its neighbors. all of that is on the table. that's exactly why not only are we standing up but we rallied countries not just in europe but indeed beyond to make it clear to russia that this aggression

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