And what the president wanted to say is not clear in the situation room , cia director burns reports something to him. The situation around israel and palestine was officially discussed, but the reason for the meeting could have been different shortly before the meeting , several american bases were attacked in the middle east. We are seeing an increase in the number of missiles launched from outside. Iranbacked groups to military bases where us personnel are stationed in iraq and syria. We are seriously concerned about the potential for a significant escalation of these attacks in the coming days. Launch of a drone by one of the iraqi groups heading towards an american base in anbar province. At the same time, a series of attacks on the pentagon garrisons in syria, red lights flashing everywhere, this is how the press in the states comments on the situation in the middle east. Between the strict enemies one can read fear. Lost, we no longer lead anywhere in the world, not even at home
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Linked into current events. If reagan, by the way something we havent gotten into his detail on how to think about the future of ukraine brewery have different points of view. In terms of thinking how we handle you cant ukraine crisis and what kind of Security Strategy we think about to the extent we can steer the russians towards a reagan model i think theres utility for that. Thats a different conversation for a different day. My last comment however is on afghanistan and i dont think that we are trying to encourage our enemy to move northward and ultimately put pressure on the russian or parts of the soviet union. What we saw in kunduz and by the way quite the tragedy and there have been a lot of them in last week including most recently the hospital bombing. Thats something ive criticized and the tragic loss of 10 americans and jalalabad of the c130 crash. Despite that we are seeing the afghan start to take back a good chunk of kunduz so dont give up yet. Theres room to be at least
They will still aspire to be in all european state. They would like to be a member of the European Union, understand that it will be very reluctant. For the 1st time ever you now have a majority of ukrainians saying they would like to be a member of nato which is something that is not going to happen for the foreseeable future. Not prepared to put them on a membership track. You have polls showing 50 percent saying we want to be a nato. Being invaded by another country will do that. Aside from that they do not have the aspirations you have the kremlin to be a major player on the international stage. Designing a set ofa set of security paradigms, you rule out the more and versus and turning once. This question please. Lets take two at a time. One behind the other. On my right right there. Then behind also. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you for an interesting discussion. My question is on something that many people in this room probably are thinking about because it is not the hot new
Solution. Powerind of evolution of and talking about status to russian language. He was not prepared to say no nato ever. They were prepared to have a dialogue. It doesnt have a negative impact on the relations. There was no interest shown by the kremlin in picking up on that. Therussians, destabilization. I do not know that when you have seen a change today. Since september, there has been a real ceasefire. Maybe in the next couple of still a lot of parts of the agreement from february that have not been implemented. Abouting that they talked in paris on friday was this question of local elections. Local elections will be held in accordance with ukrainian law. Hope tore was some but askedew elections her the requirement of minsk. Saiddent putins spokesman president putin is going to send an envoy. If russia wanted the elections, russia has the influence, the power to make it happen. And so, were still seeing a russian goal, which is destabilization of ukraine. Maybe at this point they