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With the delivery of Leopard battle tanks from Germany, the Ukraine war is entering into a new and dangerous phase. Olaf Scholz must now clean up the political damage he has caused, hold his country together and find a path with his international partners to end the conflict.
That. he did say he liked the times four or five years ago and when russia was in the g8 and he knew very well why russians were kicked off because of crimea. and he said we had a reason for that, that i understand, but if i were president at the time they invaded crimea in the first place, it would have had a different result. paraphrasing, but i raise it to general boiken, does that mean we would have raised arms for the ukrainians? that was our regret. >> i think we with all regret that russia was able to some-- stomp into crimea. neil: so we kicked him out of the club. >> the president is ...
Northeast ukraine, poisoning people in different parts of the world including britain. they have never been held accountable for this. bringing them in without going through a process would be reinforcing bad behavior. heather: when the president referred to barack obama, that started the invasion of crimea and taking from ukraine, something barack obama let happen and headed been donald trump things would have been different, what would he have done differently? raise it to the level of a military conflict with the russians over the crimea situation? do you think that would have been a legiti...
Fairer, more balanced approach and i believe that's what he was seeking to achieve at the g20 summit. it's not perfect and he's willing to make concessions and that's what i saw in that meeting. neil: he also regretted that russia was kicked out, leaving aside the reasons for russia getting kicked out, invasion of crimea and all that, four or five years ago, he wants it in. says that a g8 with russia is better than the g-7 that it is now, do you agree? >> i half agree and half disagree. let me start with the disagreement point. russia has violated european sovereignty, the sovereignty of anoth...
Plan. it seems like we never left the marshall plan about rebuilding the world. we just forgot about eventually the world is rebuilt and the trade deals are one way so it is time to level the playing field. lou: you for your patience after all of that. back to under secretary of defense lieut. gen. derek boykin. thank you for staying around. i wanted to raise what the pres. had to say about bringing russia back to the so-called g8 when we had this included. he thinks it is more effective as an entity with washington without. >> i think it is a good long-term goal. it would be good if other nat...