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Russia goes away. and if that happens prices will drop immediately. but if that don't happen, i'm afraid pump prices could easily rise towards $5 a gallon or even more until we get to the point where folks just have to stop driving at much or even economic activity around the world weakens. that's just the hard reality of the global oil market. when you have this kind of a supply shock, it either goes away or it drives prices higher until demand falls. >> all right. i want to get to this viewer question that we have for you. in viewer is asking if russia only accounts for roughly 3% of our oil...

He wants to be very careful in the cyber action we take against ukraine, because he doesn't want us to be direct kcombatants eve in cyber space. so there is a concern in the u.s., i think a quite realistic one, that you don't want to be in a position where putin gets to make this about the u.s. and nato, instead of about ukraine. >> gotcha. and i think you meant cyber aggression against rush aurks ri, russia, right, not ukraine. no worries, just wanted to make sure. i want to get to this viewer question. are we doing enough to demand china to take a stand against moscow? >> it's a really good ...

I want to go to a viewer question. this viewer asks of the 3.2 million people who left ukraine that we know of is there a sense how many are going to russia and belarus? are there some fleeing there willingly? i think people might be confused why are people going to russia? >> that's a good question. looking at unhcr numbers exactly 180,000 ukraines fled to russia, 125,000 to belarus. russia is multiethnic. about 17% of the population are ethnic russians. about 7 million people. i think it makes sense that some of the people headed east. >> yeah, and i think the latest number i saw that in rus...

To all of this, they used artillery to basically flatten the entire city scape and that change the the not only the topography of the city. people were moved out and many died. that's the thing we're looking at. over 50,000 soviet soldiers died in the siege of berlin, the very last gasp took away 50,000 soviet soldiers. >> we know how much the russians have relied on artillery in the past. i want to get to the viewer question what else could happen here. this viewer asked could armed drones be used against the artillery that is attacking civilian targets? >> yes, they could. and in fact, armed...

Inspiration. that's how he saw himself. and so any outcome that leaves him looking weak or leaves him looking like he has -- he has blinked or seeded ground he would not find acceptable. >> he would view that as paralysis of power. i want to go to the viewer question. this viewer asks, what do you think will be the end game with all of this? how long are we looking at? i know it's hard. you don't have a crystal ball but given what you know about putin, what would you say to this viewer. >> well, i mean there are biographies and intelligence analysts who would give more informed views. mine is ...