genetic position also how we will continue to set up ukraine to become a member of the european union nato finally after the war when you win there will already be other other situations and there will be many problems that you must solve in your ukraine too but what we will insist on it is clear that our influence is much greater now in nato and in the european union, and the personal and state influence of those who are here and are much greater than five years ago is very obvious. i am proud of this in principle what is a small state? yes, what we could just do. well, they will change somehow. this is the way of thinking about the question. what do you think in principle? here are the results of these wars. how will the west treat such

actions in the future? rewrite international law and import that some real conclusions will be drawn from this, or there will be requests to somehow agree with moscow to live somehow better, i’m not going to be quiet, i’m going to do it all, i’m you, we’ll see the solution in this wallpaper is one-sided the parties will have very large conclusions about defense, about something about the alliance, about everything, how do we have to, like europe and the trans-atlantic union, because this is already a global problem, china is watching, india is watching everything, they are watching how the west is acting, that is, there will be conclusions, but uh, the west how you yourself understand that it consists of many western states, as he said from us . in such states as germany and france

and so on, and of course there will also be political forces that will also want to go back to the old roads, because the day is definitely said that it will not be this is a black-and-white situation, it will be very eloquent, but i think that if we look positively , the first thing will be clear, of course, this is a golden chance for ukraine, because it speaks to your integration in all western institutions . this gives you a very big opportunity after the war it won't spoil much, but it's also a very good opportunity for us, because such countries as the baltic states, as well as northern europe, with which we are good friends, are also there. finland, denmark, sweden, norway, iceland and poland, i think we will be very close to you . alliance and we

will be able to uh much more. i hope they will influence western politics in general and of course our relations with which countries like the united states canada because uh uh for uh of the united states in europe, where are the american interests of europe, even though ours is ours , let’s say that our states are very big, that is, there are opportunities if i don’t spoil them myself, there will be a lot of opportunities. a month because so many people who in principle did not understand where they were, to put it politely , but their eyes were opened, it turned out that rocket fire is a more obvious political argument than anything else

declaration explanation appears unfortunately unfortunately i would certainly like people to be wiser otherwise but as it turned out uh unfortunately russia's actions are so terrible we will allow many people to understand where they are and what the main danger is and so on faster than it was possible to assume in general i admit that my feet would never understand anything. but this is what is happening in latvian society. ukrainian society i myself have friends in ukraine. i felt this change, what you are talking about in our latvian society . i think that a-a a-a this gave the opportunity eh let's say so in latvians to ethnic latvians in the end eh it will end with that historically , how is it in russian to say, here, here, er,

i will say that i will translate, er, it will somehow end for us. yes, because we, too, well , anyway we have always approached this very cautiously. for the last 30 years, we have always done latin society, eh, they said everything now, it’s enough . this is our state, let’s allow more. let’s say that they mock us. yes, it’s one. according to the presence of ukrainian refugees, because this is so, well, how can we say russian-speaking ones here, after all, it’s somehow slavic, they , er, show everything that everything that russia is

doing with ukraine, they show that there was a lot of pain and they, of course, too, well, i have to say they are like, er, refugees. what kind of grants are they , after all, patriots of our state? and of course we like it very much, and i think that i am comparing such a russian society here , of course, not everything is the same, there are those who are latvian patriots, but there are many who have after all, there was sentiment for the old empire , which always lived under the influence of the russian media, starting there with solovyov and others, and for them i think this is a very big afterthought, and after the war, ukraine must win. i think they will no longer be able to they are returning to this old orbit. they have to go through these personal experiences. because they, in principle, still lived as

soviet people, although they lived in latvia, they did not integrate. they valued themselves as belonging to the former soviet and russian sphere of influence. -е they should, in principle , in principle, when these hangovers pass, they should choose whether they are with russia and then with all е -е concepts and they become an integrated part of our society. that is, i think that the ukrainian war helped our occupation will end with these consequences . what does the integrated part of society mean, the feeling of being a citizen of latvia? the identity of the hotel wants to speak here you are ours or now

you are not ours for us - this is a language, that is, we are a small state if there are russians, a ukrainian, a chinese, an american, it doesn't matter if he speaks to us in latvian, then in principle we i admit that he is our uh, and the problem we had was due to the fact that basically 30 years had passed. the hotel speaks simply in latin in our country. and you understand the situation. where i live, how do you pay and my children, who have learned russian, they are going somewhere, for example, i don’t know, yes, i drank, yes, and they can’t speak the swallow’s language there. but they cannot get service in theirs state in its own language and this is definitely more impossible, that is, if people want to integrate,

they must be loyal, they must learn and speak this language, and if they must choose between latvia and russia, they must choose latvia and not russia, if they choose russia, i you have nothing to do here, but you see, in fact , this is still a very important moment, and it seems to me that this is incidentally connected with the topic of people who are now coming to latvia from russia, and i would also like to say that there are also issues of integration, and there is such a sea that there is this is a great culture. a great culture is so great . and what can be in the latvians? well , what actually is the average life in latvia ? this doesn't prove anything, you know. well, in general, historians

, political scientists, fell in love with their education , and i somehow don't want to, in principle. yes, it is in i exist in the imperial head because it is for a small state. translate while someone over there is listening, i am a state with 100 million, 500 million, of course, it is much easier , but this does not mean that these 500 million have more quality than two million , that is, there are genes there, too, yes, but then the connection connected with the anderson prize even in soviet times, it was the highest award for a children's

writer, it was of no interest to anyone in the soviet union, but it was of interest in the northern countries. this is the course of zombies that we are a great nation and therefore everyone must worship us, but you know how we are a small state, the most important thing for us is to let us live peacefully, we don't need anything from you, really, really, don't come at us with your weapons and your laws by our own laws yes so this is the most important thing now in principle at this time mmm statistically of course there are not very many russians coming to us there we very much we will say so eh sorted eh so what it is a few hundred maybe maybe быть транзите э-э быть быть быть быть вело в jurmala, etc. but as you heard, we're probably changing the law now, too, because our citizenship law was ӏ built on such a

classic system. eh which include and eh use sandvines and usually, that is, there is also a territorial basis, that is, a legal basis and an ethnic one - this meant that we lost many people in emigration, too, if it is, for example, like in germany, if you said that your grandmother was latvian, but you live there in siberia, then you could come to latvia to receive benefits and obtain citizenship even if he did n't speak a half-tone there, didn't know anything, and yes, yes, the family was deported. we now stop this law because we think that 30 years was already enough so that if someone else wanted to move to latvia, let's say yes to their roots, they could

do it now they want to do this only during the war, or they will simply go west to us , that is, i think that this law will cease to exist. well, it is good if these people are latvians after all. and then wanted to turn to the historical one family, well, well, in general, how do we define that he is latvian? but if he is 30 years old, this is not a hotel. they go and they don't end, the answer is dark. well, the states of israel are neighbors of the palestinians, we have russians, that is , that is

. there is a chance that people will simply use this law who are not actually latvians, yes. and you know, if you look at the statistics, this law was used by dipereezda pervyy there 5 well, maybe 15 years, some larger number of people, well now, in principle, before the war, there were only a few, just go to me, restore latvian citizenship it was always connected to the place of nationality with territorial belonging. here is an ethical question, and the rest of it was strictly territorial, that is, we could be russians who had a grandmother who had a ------- citizens of latvia 30 there in the ninth year, you can not speak latvian at all, you can love putin and still get it uh, citizenship, it was a territorial

approach, i got it because there, well, more changes will not be what they wanted. citizenship, they got it. and tell me, what do you think? you talked about what this russian-language series would do. it means that the map of the political forces of our country will change itself if you want, because the former prime minister of estonia , edgar savisa , says again, you always had very strange political associations, and now i thought that for decades in estonia he largely expressed the interests of the russian-speaking population, but he was an estonian politician there was an estonian party in which there were russian estonians, it was a complicated party, it's a complicated guy , it's a portion of the capital's thin leftists . it was always absolutely clear and became you that you go to one party. and if not on you that you go to other parties, it looks somehow strange . until now, it looks like the state of israel . it's not quite

pure. yes, but i must say that it 's also in my party. let's say yes, uh, russian , or let's say no ethnic latvians, but probably no more than 25% were represented. this is exactly uh, but i should say that here is also a question of definition. well, i don't think so that my party and many other so- called elastic parties, they do not defend the interests of the russians, of course, well, yes, they are better, uh, right together, but, too, uh, they don’t make a day of the week and don’t divide people there somehow sosservilentaltejnikov yes he says that it's a girlfriend's party, that's a question if a russian er-e identifies himself as a russian because he loves russia more than latvia well, then of course it's very difficult to be in such a party yes but if you're a russian who is a patriot

of latvia who can speak and speak it's also in latvian and he's ready there join our army, by the way, we have a lot of russian-speaking or russians in the army, too, and there are no problems with him, they are the portrait of our state, that is, there are no problems here , but you know, you can’t analyze the party spectrum , for example, in latvia too based only on this history, because we now live in such a strange situation in the world, because we have political fragmentation and polarization happening in all states at the same time, look even at the same with america and there in germany or france, that is it is very difficult for us to say that a young democracy should say yes. in general, to consolidate parties as such because this train has already left in many cases, they are the same as in the 19th century or after the second world war, and

this is the problem of all democratic states now, even in yours it will be well, i can say it more simply, i can, i immediately remembered the name of this political force. yes, too, behind my screams, this is the homeland of freedom. this is the inscription on the statue of liberty in the kalnyom hall in riga, which in soviet times was not allowed to let anyone in, but now thank god everyone is allowed but this is self-concept yes, it unites people of different nationalities in latvia now, when you go there, who do you want to see? i think that yes and i am sure that after this war there will be more also representatives of the minority but you must understand that the spectrum is the ethical spectrum of latvia. it is not only latvians and russians, and of course, and we know why the latvian people 's front won at the end of the 70s because the first thing they did was then they gave

autonomy and rights, too, to all the rest of the minority, that is, we had no opposition. let's say that the ethnic latvians and the rest did not have such a thing. we only left. let's say that about the imperialists who are dust against us and all the others who are close to us. there is a birth of such a political nation. yes, of course, there is none anywhere in the world. yes, they are not laptnoy. but it is clear. yes, but it does not mean. well, it does not mean that other citizens will not have the same rights. they have the same rights even after the adoption of our constitution in 1922. in principle, the same, all the same rights. as with any

other. thank you, lord, publics artis powers, the former minister of defense of latvia, the director of the electrical center is needed for europolitics in the center of policies. today the baltic countries, what do the baltic societies look like, how can you say such a huge, huge level of victory, i support ukraine and help its victory, i think it is very important, in the few minutes that are left before the end of our conversation with you today, i will try to answer several questions that have already been proposed to me, dear viewers, so if the united states is afraid that russia will not collapse and is therefore holding back the supply of

military equipment to us, or not trying to stop the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine, even if our the military will be able to actively advance with the available weapons. well, this is a very interesting question , which i want to answer. and i want to analyze. you yourself think that the united states slows down the supply of weapons because they are afraid that the russian federation will not collapse, and the united states may not slow down in the first place supplying us with weapons, but to believe that they are supplying exactly the weapons that are needed so that now our armed forces can successfully operate time and time again, they may not be afraid of what you think, they may fear not the collapse of russia, but say the use of nuclear weapons by russia, because the united states , if the president of the united states. 7 million people, how should

i react after that, or should i carry out a nuclear strike on russia, the whole situation, or should i respond, as we promised , with conventional weapons and hit the russian armed forces? and how will the russian armed forces be able to respond after this strike, if i will know that they can respond with nuclear weapons and, let's say, 15 million people will die there in new york, what should i do after that ? well, if i stay, of course, a nuclear strike on russia immediately or try some other deterrent measures, well, it looks absolutely crazy, but if you are the president of the united states and you have a nuclear button, so you sit and think about it, the real problem for you is this for you, let's say that you should think about making tea for yourself tonight, will it still work, can you drink tea tomorrow morning, the people who rule the nuclear states

they are now thinking about such things completely calmly, how many will die, what part of the territory will be uninhabitable, what will happen to europe in general, maybe it is not so important for the united states in general, if, say , europe disappears, it is necessary to consider how the united states will be in this situation, there is an interesting topic for a briefing it can be conducted with the heads of units of the armed forces and special services. and i think that they can be guided by this too, they can consider it, well, i am also reading a psychological portrait of putin or some kind of report. how should we deal with him? to act so as not to shake his psyche, this is what you and i do not read, and the president of the state union, you read every day, discusses with specialists what may be needed more or less. you are careful from our point of view, how can this be done ? given more weapons, fewer

people would die less in ukrainian soldiers, it is logical, but if you have scales on scales, there are, as a result, some number of tens of thousands of victims of the war, and there, let's say, 20-30 million well, you will have to manipulate numbers in in my mind, what is better if several thousand, several tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people died, or if 20-30 million or 50 died. i would never want to be the head of such a state , because i am not sure that i have such a stable psyche that i would sit like that in the evening over tea, we thought that it was better for 50,000 to die or 50 million to die, and to what extent is it possible to calculate the consequences of my actions, but i have to do this every day. i am a political analyst, but i am not

responsible for it. if i were responsible, maybe i would have a different mental problem, and i think that people who have such mental problems should not run for the positions of heads of state at all, that's why i always say let states be run by professional politicians, this is a job that requires a certain mental organization if you are not professionally engaged politics for decades you are bound to make a mistake at some stage you are doomed to make a mistake and will be responsible for the death of a large number of people this is what life looks like so i don't think the united states will to stop the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine they are trying to demonstrate to president putin that he will not stop the events anyway so that putin realizes this and stops himself because putin lives all the time in a world where

ukraine and the west are about to stop we have to press more, time is playing against us, biden will either not be re-elected or may die at this age. and i am a young man , i am 70 years old. i have 10 years left for the war. it is not known how far this will reach putin, but the united states is doing everything possible to make him it is not us to stop him, it is difficult , complex analytical work of hundreds of people, this is how the entire state machine works, the pentagon, the state department, the presidential administration, every morning, briefings, consultations, meetings with the secretary of state, a traitor for national security, a report, secret reports, informants from

putin's entourage, satellite images reported by psychologists, the schedule of forces . internal conflict is possible. you sit and analyze all this, and of course you also analyze the situation at the front. she decides everything, this is the answer, and by the way, this is the second now we can see how military aid to ukraine is being strengthened by the western countries, what has changed for our western partners that have contributed to the acceptance and for many years, the first thing that has changed is that everyone sees that the armed forces of ukraine are determined to continue resistance to the liberation of their territories. but together with this has changed the fact that everyone sees that russia is not calming down, but it was believed that if they demonstrate the skills of the ukrainian armed forces, the modern weapons that they can liberate the territories, then the russians will begin to calm down as i already said, they will begin to draw certain conclusions

that this is not a winning option, it is like in a real card game you have, we gave them all the trump cards you have no cards what are you playing but putin shuler he does not want to see it, he is sitting with sixes himself, but he is sure that it will work out in a dunk, it absolutely means that if it does not work, this mechanism does not work. it is necessary to saturate the ukrainian armed forces with more modern weapons and offensive weapons, the issue is not that you will not capture anything, the issue is that you will not protect anything from what you captured is it too late and your air defense system is not working? you may have seen the scandal that the vice-prime minister arranged today, come on, here is

the answer to the question, so as long as the russians don't understand it, so much will the military support of ukraine increase, not even quantitatively and qualitatively , as they say, the fool skabeeva or the semenians do not know how to confuse. oh, zelensky already has everything, only he does not have a nuclear bomb. well , there is logic in this, everything is in order to drive your army out of someone else's land, away, away, away. you you have to understand it, they give you the opportunity to understand it because it happens in stages, how sure am i that putin is able to understand it? i don't know, but more and more

people around will begin to understand it, there are of course people who just speak mentally, the valchuk card well, you're just a moron, to be honest, what are you reading? whatever people say, but there are people who are not like that and this also creates a certain atmosphere so that we will be helped more qualitatively and quantitatively as long as the russians will not understand this. you just have to realize this. thank you friends and see you soon tomorrow and now i wish you a good and generous evening congratulations good luck i wish you all victory on this festive evening good afternoon festive evening evening good afternoon see what is happening with the ether thank you it is good