MSNBC Morning Joe February 18, 2022 11:18:00
That's our challenge to hold things together. number two from his perspective, he is playing not so much to nato and to the west. he is playing to the nations around the periphery of russia, kazakhstan, moldova, not only ukraine, belarus. he is showing them that russia is a primal, powerful nation that does what it wants to do. third and finally, joe, he has to play here with china in the sense that he is showing president xi the competence of the russian military, its capabilities. those two nations are drawing closer together. i think when he puts that package together and he adds to it, his...