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Ukraine is so stark that we're willing to watch -- this is my interpretation, we're willing to watch tens of thousands of ukrainians die because we don't want to risk millions around the globe dying. am i putting it too starkly, do you think? >> no, it's worse. tens of thousands would be awful, but that's on a low end. today mark as grim anniversary. it's the 11th year that that war has been raging. you know, upwards of 500,000 have died, 50,000 of them children there. asand putin are still waging war against the syrian citizens. the chance of a catastrophe and getting much, much worse is ther...
Weaponry. this is an important fact we cannot ignore right now. i'm sure diplomats around the world are looking for a solution to understand how to stop russia so that russia doesn't open a nuclear war because it's not only about ukraine. poland also increased their army three times. baltic states, i understand that putin has such a disrespect to world order that neither membership in nay tore or member in the un will stop russia from getting ukraine. i must confess the civilized world is fully united to help y ukraine stand against them. thank you. ukraine says these are war crimes and a lo...
Now, the issue that myself and others will be looking at, we'll be looking at the statement to see how many interest rate rises will we get. to give you an example, jake, in 2017 the last time we had a cycle of increases, we had three rates. in 2018, we had four rates. now, the expectation had been we could have five, six, or seven this year. we're going to to look to see, yes, rates are going up, but will it be four, three, five, or seven. >> and, ronna, let's switch to the global economy because europe needs to stop its dependence on russian oil in order to effectively stop putin's war, but ...
Oil? >> there's not one silver bullet, jake. unfortunately they made a bad bet. right now they're trying to pull from wherever they can. there have been allies in asia who have released strategic reserves. the u.s. is shipping as much as possible frmg but the u.s. has ramped down its shaleable industry because of the shift to cleaner technologies. there's definitely talk about getting as much wind and solar and nuclear online as possible, but i think the u.s. and europe have got to work together both on a short-term plan to plug this gap in the next couple of years, but also on a longer-term p...