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Rhetoric. we need to be the adults in the room. >> noah rothman, how do you compare the sabre rattling, the nuclear sabre rattling by putin, by lavrov, by people on russian state television, by russian diplomats? how does that compare to what we saw during the cold war with the soviets? >> it is very familiar, these kind of escalatory rhetoric is the stuff that makes you want to dust off the old playbook and see how the russians behaved. what is different about this conflict in many ways is that -- and for 40 years proxy conflict has been sort of the status quo of russian/american relations. w...

>> yeah. i mean, i think that that's exactly right, and yet president biden is pretty steadfast. take a listen about what he said just friday what it would mean for the u.s. to become more involved in ukraine. we don't have that bite, but he made it clear that it would be world war iii. right? so the question is, are we too concerned about the prospects of world war iii? has it already effectively begun? >> i don't think so. i think world war iii is nato against russia. what we have here is a conflict, being fought in ukraine. in many ways, it's a proxy conflict between nato and russia. noneth...

Form an impeachment inquiry against strong and of course we'll bring you more on the story as details become available. turning an hour to on next story it's been 4 and a half years since a saudi led coalition began a military intervention in yemen since then the country's civil war has become a proxy conflict for regional powers saudi arabia and iran with yemeni civilians bearing the brunt of the suffering but the country already had plenty of problems before the war began women in yemen have long suffered depression in the country's highly patriarchal society our reporter on the met a yemeni...

Neighbors often and so and try to get them to intervene as through diplomatic channels to get talks going try to sort of course to peaceful speace will steps forward the worse they they want to avoid is being to be drawn into this proxy conflict between the united states on one side and russia and also china on the other side so they're sort of trying to sort of show we are a party we want peaceful change in venezuela with the good guys in this ride barbarism in brussels thank you very much for sharing the european perspective on this crisis in venezuela. turning now to mogadishu where at leas...

United states backs the al tern tiff to the government. we want that government gone. this is the classic beginning of a proxy conflict. let's not forget next door to venezuela and colombia. united states provided a lot of security assistance. and this is after all the western hemisphere. to the monroe doctrine. united states says the united states will be the principle power in the west. no one can muck around in politics here. it does seem like it's the beginning of a proxy conflict. those can be dangerous. >> appreciate your time. thank you. thank you for watching. hope you all stay warm ...