much then it rather splits the west or z u, as long as you are on a certain level, which might not be enough, but everybody can agree on. it looks like unity, but if you go further, then the unit is not so reliable anymore. so i'm a little bit cautious about, and you asked about putting, will he be convinced? i think pooty lives in his own world and what news gets to him and to his head. we don't know about that. he is surrounded now by almost 20 years by yes. so yours and people who are not challenging him. so i don't see that he is crazy. i would never use those words. i think he is a rational, but he is rational in his own world. and the world in which vladimir putin is rational might not be the real world and that makes it dangerous. so if he gets all the signals of unity of the west or whether he still things, you know, the west to stick, a dent in the antsy won't do anything, would really hurt them. that we don't know the testers out. interesting. i want to

get you or your comment also on the office of weapons support and i wonder how surprised you were to hear even e commission. president ursula funder lion for the 1st time offering weapons and military support to the tune of 500000000 euros. not a paltry amount. is that helpful or does it risk actually importing the conflict into the you? this conflict is already a european conflict. let's declare and the threat of world war 3, the threat of nuclear war that we face. we face it with or without nato action and setting up a no fly zone. this is an incredibly vol, tail, dangerous situation. and b, e u, 1st and foremost, made the right decision to support president zalinski and answer his call for, for military 8. and this to not do so, would have been to basically put the nail in the coffin of the ukrainian resistance

to this invasion. however, i'm to, to your points around the threat of war with russia directly. there are many people right now in eastern europe. and in the baltic states, we're already saying, if we don't take more action now, this won't stop with ukraine. all right. vladimir putin in his own logic and his in whatever reality he's currently occupying. he sees the former soviet union as something that needs to be reclaimed and re put together. and this will not stop with ukraine just like it didn't stop with georgia. it didn't stop with korea. all right? we need to start believing what he says. and certainly, you know, the french president, amanda will not call had much the same to say after speaking with about him a protein this week. and hearing putin tell him essentially that he plans to go all the way. let me go back to rowman to find out whether you think the weapons

deliveries to ukraine are in fact getting there in time and whether they will make a difference. well, that certainly will make a difference. they already are because we see that ukrainian armed forces are able to stop russia military, all columns with the help of those general in entered tank missiles for loss from u k. so they are very, very important in germany delivering them. or of course it comes to late, but well, i wouldn't say it's a game changer, but it is a significant force that russia didn't reckon with. i think when they were planning this operation. so it was good to the west. first of all, united states and united kingdom delivered those, those weapons in the weeks prior to the assault. let me make, make a point about what you've just been discussing about 2 things,

plans which go beyond ukraine. i totally agree with that. and there is one thing that i'm, i'm thinking these days and everything we see, we see in ukraine happening now, this war all out war that most of us were not thinking about and go thinking, well that's, that's that good. that is not possible. this is something that they have been discussing on russian stage t v for years in very, very exactly the same details that we are facing in reality. now. those discussions on talk shows in on russian to be what ignored in the west. we thought it was crazy, but it was not. so i think we have finally to take seriously what russians are saying and what they are discussing. because they used the 8 years after the

annexation of crimea, to prepare the public in russia to prepare the russian people that such an aggression against the graeme is possible. that it is possible to divide ukraine and it is possible to go nuclear to, ah, western europe or eastern europe, so much. so we are just russian states, tv, about, or nuclear strikes against poland or against the baltic states. so we have to consider that roman we are hearing about increasing disillusion within russia. we hear about protests. we hear about pushback, for example, from the board of the luke oil oil company. surprisingly enough. will any of that make a difference briefly if you would, i think yes, i'm hearing the reports from russia. that makes me think russia probably underestimated how quick the response from the west will be on the economic front and how heavy it will hit russia because there are only already. ready shortages of

spare, pos, shortages of medicine, and the russians are really shocked at western companies are leaving russia. i think they didn't consider that. let me quickly a come back to the topic of western unity and solidarity and bring in a, a excerpt from president biden's state of the union speech this week. many people feel that the ukraine conflict has reset the button on the transit land of unity in a way that few would have believed possible. just a year ago. put latest attack on ukraine was premeditated and totally unprovoked. he rejected repeated repeated efforts at diplomacy. he thought the worst of nato wouldn't respond. he thought i could divide it at home in this chamber in this nation. he thought he could divide us in europe as well,

but put in was wrong. we are ready, we are united, and that's what we did. we stayed united, we prepared extensively and carefully. we spent months building coalitions of other free de la nations, in europe, and america for america to the asian and african continents. to confront potent, like many of you, i spent countless hours unifying your european allies. we shared with the world in advance, what we knew put was planning and precisely how we would try to falsify and justify his aggression kristof. let me ask you about an hour. so here, the durability of this transit, landtech unity are both biden and the secretary general of nato. have said, listen, mister, put in, if you think you're going to get less nato by prosecuting this war against ukraine, you're wrong. you're going to get more nato, and we've heard a lot from nato,

about how they are showing up the defenses of the most vulnerable member states. for example, the baltic republics, realistically, how defensible are the baltic republics? how strongly are can nieto in fact act to help them? well that is a weak point on our eastern flank and we, we should be already now be very grateful to the ukrainians for their resistance. because it buys us time to enforce or nato present in the baltic states. if you look at the map as a very small corridor which connects poland to the baltic states, it's just 60 kilometers white. on the western side is colleen. im got a lot of military russian presence on the other side. eastern side is b, i was which is also a state where you have russian military on the ground. and if the russians would be able to cut into that corridor and to cut it off, then it would be almost impossible to defense,

the baltic states and the western we will be tested. what we see now is not the real test. we will be tested in the next weeks because if, if putting decides to a text about it states our, the western response or threat was always, you might occupy the territory. but nate, all is 15 times the resources you have in russia, russia, 3 percent of the world economy is a west, is over 40 percent. so we can come back with superior forces and take it away from you and what has been put in since. ok, then i will sent a nuclear missile nuclear missile to berlin or to humble what was the german society then to will be ready to to say, well, you can't and to nuclear war right now, we don't believe you that you will do that. we will stand up anyway, and i'm not so sure how we will respond to these kinds of tests which are coming. we shouldn't be so sure that this is just green light. then he says, i'm sorry,

we're almost out of time. i want to just get back to our title if i may and ask how isolated protein truly is with the request for a short answer. he's got china on his side. there are a whole host to states who abstained on that general assembly resolution supporting ukraine. so how long can you hold out? how much support does he have briefly? the number one question is, how much support does he have in the kremlin? he is incredibly isolated. we see the pictures of him at the table, he's literally sitting there alone. the question is, can the russian security forces step in and help isolate him further and remove him from power roman, what do you think about that is pooty and feeling isolated or is realistically, is the isolated or empowered? i think what unfortunately bad sound there. i'm afraid roman try one more time. i think he's isolated but this is what he wanted. thank you very much for that contribution and

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