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Of lithuania has said? yes, i think the one headline i will give is don't underestimate weakness. the vice foreign ministerjust explained that indeed putin has shown his weakness in not being able to basically so far conduct successfully a military campaign over ukraine and this is a good thing in a way, that he's failing, but failure can also be dangerous because that means he's going to fall back on what russia still has going for itself, which is nuclear weapons, cruise missiles and cyber. so, weakness can also hide some strengths and we should not underestimate this. ok, so there is reason...

Emboldened leaders to help them in this fight. we have to do more. what i hope president biden will do tonight is announce we'll have no more half measures on sanctioned. they say they've sanctioned 80% of the bank. vladimir putin controls 100%. he can move money around and use the other non-sanctioned bank. we have sent tens of millions of dollars to vladimir putin's war machine in the six days of this hour buying oil and europe has sent more. we can impose more punishing sanctions on him if we will also reverse our terrible energy policies at home here. there is time to do more to support th...

Increasingly provocative behavior. coming to power on the impression that he was going to sustain the fledgling russiian democracy. in fact very quickly he cracked down on opposition. he cracked up on oligarch that is had influence in the system. and proceeded to consolidate control. in 2004 he got a candidate to usher him in to office. the rhetoric increased in 2005 and 2007 as a result of reversals and the slipping grip on the former russian periphery and by 2007, in response to nato half measures, the announcement of georgia and ukraine joining nato he attacked, basically established a trap...

About this later on in the show that we knew they were going invade they told chyna told them to do it after olympics so why not do this before? >> because we have continued this administration has continued to pursue a series of half measures hoping that if we don't irritate russians too much maybe they won't go further now that strategy hasn't proven out again i also think it is far more sinister i think they want to be back in the iran deal more than they actually tpght to counter russia in ukraine under this new jcpoa iranians can potentially do things like give russia 500 million dollars ...

Basically russia still has going for itself, which is nuclear weapons, cruise missiles and cyber. so, weakness can also hide some strengths, and we should not underestimate this. right, ok, so there is reason for concern and worry here in the baltics. yes. ambassador, what's your response to that question? i think that russia must be stopped in ukraine and if it is stopped in ukraine, it will not go further, and that is only possible if europe will not stick to half measures. europe was going well but this is only halfway up the road and the response to this historical moment is totality. tota...