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The feeling that we will do whatever it takes — it feeds into a russian narrative, a narrative that vladimir putin has just repeated on his victory day speech, when he basically says, "we in russia are facing a war with the west, with nato." what lavrov — sergey lavrov, the foreign minister — calls a proxy war. that's the truth of what's happening now, isn't it? my belief is this is what putin and his... ..cabal have brought on. i fully agree that this has become much bigger than ukraine versus russia. i think most of us in the west over the last few years, particularly here in this coun...

Than there has been since 1916. we live in a very, very dangerous time, and an aggression that was purely started by putin's grand design of recreating the greater russia and whether we stand with democratic—elected nations. our failure to do so, and if we'd allowed this aggression to go unchecked, we all know putin would not have stopped with ukraine. you not only sit there as chair of the intelligence committee, you're also, i believe, a co—chair of the cybersecurity caucus here in the senate. you keep tabs on what russia is up to. do you believe, having seen what they tried to do in 201...

Some of your opponents here in the us senate, and i'm thinking of people like marco rubio and lindsey graham, want biden to be even tougher, send more weapons, impose tighter sanctions on vladimir putin. and they say notjust because we have to win this fight in ukraine, but also they say it has huge ramifications for our wider struggle, particularly with china. they say that unless putin is defeated and seen to be defeated, president xi of china will see it as some sort of green light to invade taiwan. do you agree? well, first of all, i would take issue with your notion that they are my polit...

Vladimir putin has just repeated on his victory day speech, when he basically says, "we in russia are facing a war with the west, with nato." what lavrov — sergey lavrov, the foreign minister — calls a proxy war. that's the truth of what's happening now, isn't it? my belief is this is what putin and his... ..cabal have brought on. i fully agree that this has become much bigger than ukraine versus russia. i think most of us in the west over the last few years, particularly here in this country, have felt, whether it's with covid, some of the political dysfunction in this country — can lib...

The concern of when you've got someone like putin who rules with a small cabal, when this individual who's become more and more disconnected from, in a sense, reality... the pictures we've all seen of putin meeting with, whetherforeign leaders or their own russian leadership, him at one end of the table versus the other — it speaks a thousand words. where this allows putin an exit ramp, that's a valid question to ask, but not being willing to call out the atrocities for what they are i think would be a grave mistake as well. but the point is that on that table you talk about that vladimir pu...