center ariel cohen, an expert on russia, eurasia, and the middle east.nswer some of the questions anne-marie was trying to answer for us. the end goal, if it is to get our attention, putin has our attention. european allies and the u.s. what do you see as the end goal then? ariel: over the last 30 years, the balance of power in europe shifted. 30 years ago when the soviet union collapsed, russia was lying prostrate, pulled out troops from eastern europe, from germany, poland, baltic states, and nato expanded. today, russia built up a considerable military muscle, ukraine is relatively weak. the leadership in ukraine is divided and not very competent. russia is pushing to engage ukraine, which is considered as historic lands controlled by the russian empire for hundreds of years and also russian troops are in belarus now. the leader of the larousse -- belarus is going over to talk with putin. this is an opportunity for putin to build his legacy when he is thinking about his place in history books. he would be the one who re-created the russian empire the

jonathan: alex brideau of eurasia group, thank you, particular for that final comment.his equity market turns positive a little bit. considering where we were on the nasdaq when we were down 1% we have recovered two unchanged on the day. that feels like in up day considering where we were this morning. tom: i'm looking at four things. euro swissie has pulled back a little bit. this is what i love when we talk to actual authorities, away from the spin. alex brideau flat out says things have gone backwards diplomatically. jonathan: is there a basis to continue diplomatic conversations for the next couple of days, maybe longer than that? tom: i don't know. the germans have to do their tour. who will be after that? is boris johnson do swing through? jonathan: i believe the british prime minister is speaking to the u.s. president. that is where boris is at. tom: within the history of the continent, emmanuel macron makes a tour, olaf scholz has a tour, by definition boris johnson has to make a tour. jonathan: ps some problems at home. he will be catching the prime ministers q

let's speak to michael bassetti, if he's a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council eurasia center and a former spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. he joins us from viv in ukraine. thank you for your time. i stop fast with your reaction to vladimir putin se ferry speech last night where he formerly recognized these to break away regions of ukraine, controlled by these russian back separatists. did you see it is coming? good to be with you? i yes, i saw coming actually. i've been predicting it for weeks that president putin would take formal control over a territory. he's actually been controlling informally since 2014 through the russian back tags. the speech last night was nothing short of blood curdling. it was coming from a man who i believe has no intention at stopping at the so called front line, dividing the occupied and government control areas of ukraine is the big fear here at the moment is that he will actually try and take control of the other parts of all i can do that, they basically control at the moment about one 3rd of those

the rising eurasian global competitors, how it's viewed in washington anyway, the in other words, eurasia building and standing on its own. m and charting at its own future, which is a threat, of course, to those who have designs on the future of eurasia for themselves. the goal of the united states looking at russia in particular for china tube hasn't changed really from the goal of france in the 19th century and of germany in the 20th century. they see seberio, in essence, asian, russia, and china as the africa of the 21st century, where they're going to go in and capture all the mineral wealth. rather than dragging laborer the slaves off, you have highly skilled a technical workers. they want to extract value from them working from megan for the corporations in the west, at the direction of people in the west and the foreign policy, the united states and the ear was directed towards that. you cannot really have any other interpretation for the placement of military forces along rushes borders from the baltics to the korean peninsula, including those things that would negate roches abil

coming up on the show, eurasia group president ian bremmer will join us to discuss the potential market and geopolitical fallout in a few minutes, leon panetta will join us with his take on the events >> we have full coverage of this developing story for you kayla tausche here in washington mike santoli at the stock exchange, and jan is standing by kayla, let's start with you and what we have learned >> the white house says russia may invade ukraine in a matter of days, underscoring the use has not reached a definitive conclusion that vladimir putin has decided to go forward with an invasion, but putting a finer point on what one would look like and when. here's the national security adviser. >> now, we can't pinpoint the day at this point. and we can't pinpoint the hour, but what we can say is that there is a credible prospect that a russian military action would take place even before the end of the olympics. >> sullivan warning if one were to happen, it could begin with an air campaign, followed by a ground invasion, which sullivan says could see a rapid assault on the city of kyiv.

the rising eurasian global competitors, how it's viewed in washington anyway, the in other words, eurasia building and standing on its own. m and a charting at its own future, which is a thread of course, to those who have designs on the future of eurasia for themselves. the goal of the united states looking at russia in particular, what china tube hasn't changed really from the goal of france in the 19th century and of germany in the 20th century. they see, siberia, in essence, asian, russia, and china as the africa of the 21st century where they're going to go in and capture all the mineral wealth. rather than dragging laborer thus slaves off, you have highly skilled a technical workers. they want to extract value from them working from megan for the corporations in the west, at the direction of people in the west and the foreign policy, the united states and the ear was directed towards that. you cannot really have any other interpretation for the placement of military forces along russia's borders from the baltics to the korean peninsula, including those things that would negate roche

what we can our cross like the o rasmussen, executive director of the eurasia center. now joining us live on asi international during. i'll continue breaking news. great to see you and have a very good even you all the way from the russian capital here. how did this hit you the 1st moment you heard what person was planning when it came out with a speech? essentially recognizing the independence of these break way? republics, how did it hit you? kind of surprised me to some degree. i knew there was not going to be any invasion . i pretty confident that unless something really tragic, happened to drop and obviously there's been the west has been trying to learn who into invading and, and, and that's not going to happen. but they are looking for something and i agree with them. they are looking for some reason to what, thanks and it, it surprised me to some degree but at another way it's been, i mean let's face it. ready i mean, those regions are not ever go to vote for, for mr. lindsey or anyone that's put in place there from the u. s. with there not have approval to to

the rising eurasian global competitors, how it's viewed in washington anyway, the in other words, eurasia, on building and standing on its own and charting at its own future, which is a threat, of course, to those who have designs on the future of eurasia for themselves. the goal of the united states looking at russia in particular of what china to hasn't changed really from the goal of france in the 19th century and of germany in the 20th century. they see seberio, in essence, asian, russia, and china. as the africa of the 21st century, where they're going to go in and capture all the mineral wealth on rather than of dragging laborer, thus slaves off, you have highly skilled a technical workers. they want to extract value from them. working from megan for the corporations in the west, at the direction of people in the west. and the foreign policy, the united states in the ear was directed towards that. you cannot really have any other interpretation for the placement of military forces along russia's borders from the baltics to the korean peninsula, including those things that would nega

the rising, eurasian global competitors, how it's viewed in washington anyway, the in other words, eurasia, on building and standing on its own and charting at its own future, which is a threat, of course, to those who have designs on the future of eurasia for themselves. the goal of the united states looking at russia in particular of what china tube hasn't changed really from the goal of france in the 19th century and of germany in the 20th century. they see seberio, in essence, asian, russia, and china as the africa of the 21st century, where they're going to go in and capture all the mineral wealth, rather than of dragging laborer, thus slaves off, you have highly skilled a technical workers. they want to extract value from them working from megan for the corporations in the west, at the direction of people in the west. and the foreign policy in the united states in the ear was directed towards that. you cannot really have any other interpretation for the placements of military forces along russia's borders from the baltics to the korean peninsula, including those things that would neg

russia feels d emboldened by all of these developments and eurasia. from russia's perspective the united states played no significant role in addressing these upheavals and the united states again from russia's perspective seems grievously weakened at home and abroad. for vladimir putin and again this is his view america's political disarray mayor is a russia's predicament dissolution of the ussr and offers a rare opportunity. if the united united states is in the state of collapse at home and in retreat abroad as putin in the kremlin assesses putin's view is perhaps he can overturn american dominance in european security and strain ukraine's independence. if we look at europe not just in eurasia moscow sees ample opportunity to take advantage or developments there. the reverberations from brexit hungary's dispute with the eu in moscow meeting with vladimir atputin directly the legacy of four years of rifts between united states and its european allies the departure of long serving chairman chancellor angela merkel from the political scene preparation

the director of the eurasia democracy initiative, peter zalamyev.he eu. just this weekend for _ such unity in the eu. just this weekend for example - such unity in the eu. just this weekend for example apart i such unity in the eu. just this i weekend for example apart from all of the extra financial sanctions we have been hearing about from jack, the eu is going to buy and deliver weapons to a country that is at war, and germany, turning its defence policy on its head and, for the first time, despite its wariness with its second world war reputation, it is going to be sending weapons directly to ukraine and it announced today it is going to be massively spending and investing in its own military.— own military. katya adler exniaining _ own military. katya adler explaining some - own military. katya adler explaining some key - explaining some key developments and you had the reaction from peter my guest towards all of that. max bergmann is a senior fellow at american progress, where he focuses on europe, russia, and us security cooperation. this is

we can now speak to eugene rumer, a former national intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at theogram. lovely to have you with us. thank you so much forjoining us. there are a couple of aspects that come to mind when we hear about russia and china's leaders meeting. what do you make of the meeting? well, it's an important meeting, although i think they have had close to 40 meetings over the past eight years or so. but it's important because of the timing. russia is in a crisis, really, of the kind that we haven't seen since the end of the cold war with the west, and china's relationship with the united states is at its worst in many, many years. so this kind of solidarity is important to both leaders, to show that the other two great powers other than the united states are standing by each other and are prepared to back each other up. 50 other and are prepared to back each other up.— each other up. so what do you think that _ each other up. so what do you think that means, _ each other up. so what do you think that means, though, i each other up. so what do you think that means,

from 2006 to 2009 she served as national intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the national intelligence council. she's co-author of mr. putin's operative in the kremlin, and has researched and published extensively on issues related to russia, the caucuses, central asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. she's a true expert on this subject matter. we're also joined by lieutenant general ben hodges. he's joining us virtually, i believe from germany. he is lieutenant general retired, holds the pershing chair in strategic studies at the center for european policy analysis. he joins sepa in february of 2018. a native of quincy florida. general hodges graduated from the united states military academy in may of 1980 and was commissioned in the infantry. he has served in so many places incluing iraq and afghanistan, and i believe he is recently back from ukraine. ambassador retired william taylor is the vice president, russia and europe at the u.s. institute for peace. he served at the u.s. embassy in kyiv during the arab spring, he oversaw u.s. assistance and supp

so russia feels emboldened by all of these developments in eurasia.or russia's perspective, the united states played no significant in addressing these upheavals. and the united states again, from russia's perspective sees we get home and abroad. for vladimir putin, this is his view, america's political disarray mirrors russia's predicament immediately after the dissolution of the ussr. a rare opportunity is offered. if united states is really in a state of collapse at home and in retreat applaud dutch abroad as the -- in retreat abroad, perhaps russia can overturn american dominance and constrain ukraine's independence. if we look at europe, not just at eurasia, moscow analyses ample opportunity to take advantage of operations. brexit, disputes in the eu. we have seen them meeting with vladimir putin directly. rifts between the united states and european allies, the departure of long sermon -- long serving german chancellor angela marco. washington's precipitous withdrawal from afghanistan have exacerbated frictions and factions in nato and the eu th

with me are melinda haring, who's deputy director of the atlantic council's eurasia centre, and natalie

. >>> joining me now in bremer, president and founder of the eurasia group, author of "us versus themre of globalism and other important books. ian, good morning to you. i needed to talk to you about the fact that the global order that we believe in, and it's ebbed and flowed over the years is held in place by certain international organizations. we've got the united nations. we've got the g7. we've got nato and then we've got smaller groups, but they're trade organizations. the european union trade agreements that we've got and it's all for better or for worse held things together and now we have something going on in eastern ukraine that feels very 190s, 1940s, 20th century invasion land grab stuff. why is that? why are the things that we've set up to prevent this from happening not preventing this from happening? >> well, the broad answer to that and good morning to you, ali is that when we set up international institutions they relate to the global balance of power as it exists at the time. so after world war ii the united states is the big country left standing. the u.s. creates

with me are melinda haring, who's deputy director of the atlantic council's eurasia centre, and natalie fahy, editor of the nottingham post. let me bring you up—to—date at home. a stark headline in the i — putin bombs civilians — and a picture of the skies above kyiv glowing with fire following russian rocket strikes near the city. the uk's metro free newspaper has a picture of a paramedic trying to help a young girl and the words of a ukrainian doctor fighting to save wounded children — "show this to putin" the international version of the financial times rounds up the latest situation, focusing on attacks on ukraine's second city of kharkiv. but also covers oil giant shell ending its biggest projects in russia in response to the invasion. the french daily, le figaro, says europe faces up to putin — highlighting severe sanctions, military aid and a muscular european response. the view from tokyo, where the japan times says the introduction of sanctions against russia marks a shift in rhetoric and policy towards russia from japan the international edition of the new york times shows som

i will note that the program is sponsored here by ponars eurasia and the eurasian studies program on ukraine at the elite school of international affairs. >> high appreciate -- i appreciate it very much. for weeks and months, let us try to decipher, even though there is no clarity. after many weeks of guessing but intensive analysis, we are not quite sure what is going on. it is a crisis, not necessarily a ukraine crisis, but a global crisis. the control of belarus and nato, there are many players and many faces in the crisis. basically, there are two ways of explaining what russia is doing. russia is preparing for invasion. it is important to try to understand or kind of invasion, where, and when and what circumstances. is there a way to prevent that from happening? is there a very costly systemically organized intimidation game? what we have seen in the weeks and months falls under both of those scenarios. we cannot quite tell. it is something that about the timing of it, why now? why do they think that this needed to be decided right away? starting from something that is going on

it open societies, european eurasia program and joins us now from london. sir, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera, it's quite a political background. i mean, to say it's not conventional, doesn't even begin at the coverage and now he is facing obviously one of the biggest crises that we can remember in that country. what is it about him that you think has made him, i guess, able to adapt quite well in so far as he can to what is happening now? what are the qualities that 1st one, i guess the trust of ukrainians and continue to do so now? anchor barbara, i think that ascii. oh yeah. well, describe, you know, he is relatively new politician and new liter his a much, much less experience than potent. he was very popular unlikable before he went into politics before the 19 and he was very well known as a comedian. and as an actor, he was not my favorite back though i do, i did follow his, his pity and servant so that people, it was, it was, was one of my favorite comedies is. but i would never imagine when i was watching bad, he would ever beco

time in ukraine's post soviet history. dear sir, is it director at the open societies, europe in eurasia program, he says the landscape background as an actor has helped him to communicate effectively with people in ukraine and 3 owned. he was very popular unlikable before he went into politics before 2019 and he was very well known as a comedian and as an act when he lordship and painted the 1019 that was a big surprise. i think most of your hands are all your kind. yeah. but he was a unifying candidate of the very divided country of the time between the east and west. and i think that was the big appeal, and that's why he became such that he just to remind that he became a lead there of ukraine why ukraine was already in war with russia since 2014. so just say that he did and she hasn't chosen the job. i think it's not correct. he knew that he would become a leader of a nation in war. i think her transformation and the laws in the last few years. but also especially in the last day is remarkable. i think kids definitely keep the morale high. it's unimaginable was difficult time. ukrain

in his foreign policy, professors did, is a former us national intelligence officer for russia in eurasia, she told in georgetown university school of foreign service. she's a fellow at the brookings institution and she is my guess this evening professor said it's good to have you on the day as far as we know. nothing has changed on the ground following today's un security council meeting. do you think today's meeting will make a difference at all? i think it was very important to have the meeting today, because this is not just a crisis between russia and the u. s. in europe. this is a crisis. it can have global ramifications if that's a bore. so it's very important to present it to the world, to all of the other countries, to listen to this and to take in what it means to have a large neighbor threatened to invade a country for no apparent reason. i don't know whether it's going to move anything forward. i clearly china is going to back russia in whenever it does. but i think it was important to get those cards on the table. you know, just a few days ago, foreign affairs published a pie

the vice president of the eurasia center forum, which works to boost east west relations highlight to us who he thinks would suffer the most from any fresh functions. europe potentially would be hurt more by these for thanks, russian and russia would probably do counter thanking justifiably, new, also, nor tremendous for me would have been with the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that germany. so it will be a big block of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standard. there's not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and as far as the cost, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline it to be stream really costly. i don't think russia has any right, so it's mostly nato. you pay in the u. s. that are the ones that are advocating. basin candidates, busiest border crossing with the u. s. s temporarily closed freedom convoy processed as well against covey vaccine mandates of

what makes you believe that pakistan can actually pull it off being this bridge, let's say, in eurasia, when so many other countries attempted and failed was firstly, let me say one thing. as a student of history, i do not believe that military conflict solve problems. if you look back, i mean, look at the conflict since 911. i mean if a, a 3rd party, dispassionately did a proper analysis of so many people killed. what was the, what was the g at the end? what, what happened out of honest, on 20 years of god knows, hundreds of 1000 of people dying. what, what was the achievement? so therefore, i'm not a believer in military conflicts. i believe the civilized societies has all the difference through dialogues. and the countries that rely on military conflict have not started. history probably, do you believe on a personnel that say on a political level in some sense of accountability, maybe historical accountability? do think things will change in the world so that all the greatest operations that you have that could be realized without that as getting very cynical because i hear what yo

he's executive director at the eurasia democracy initiative. welcome to will. let me start then with peter. is this a prelude to a wider invasion? what's the view from kiev? while it seems that vitamin wouldn't, has prepared the ground, said that with his decision to recognize these so called the peoples republic of law school, the gnats, and the essentially unilateral condition of the mill agreement. he have untied his hands, the, you know, the puppet states now are claiming that they want to to have the rest of the territory, which is still under ukrainian control. and that is like 2 thirds still occupied by putting henchmen. that means, you know, russia through its public states has much further into ukraine's territory to go and let him. and if not planning to do that, he's definitely made it very possible for himself in the next 2 days to try to re conquered that rhetoric and still, you know, recurring plausible as few things deny that he is involved. like what he did with crye b and the so called green man. this would be a sort of help of the dairy kind o

he's a europe in eurasia program. he says the landscape background as an act is helped him to communicate effectively with people in ukraine and beyond. he was very popular and likable before he went into politics before 2019 and he was very well known as a comedian and as an act when he lordship and parent of housing the 9. seeing that that was a big surprise. i think most of your hands are all your kind. yeah. but he was a unifying candidate of the very divided country of the time between the east and west. and i think that was the big appeal, and that's why he became that should be that he just to remind that he became a lead there of ukraine why ukraine was already in war with russia since 2014. so just say that he did and he hasn't chosen the job. i think it's not correct. he knew that he would become a leader of a nation in war. i think his transformation in the last the last few years, but also especially in the last 30 days is remarkable. i think his definitely keeping the morale high, it's unimaginable what's

think we could make up a significant portion of it that would be lost, the vice president of the eurasia center, the forum which works to boost east west relations. i liked it to us who he thinks would suffer the most for many fresh sanctions. europe potentially would be hurt more by these for sanctions. russian and russia would probably do counter thanking . justifiably, gone to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure there's liabilities related to that. germany, so it'll be a big block of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's f, the cost. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline. it b, scream, really costly. i don't think russia has any big, right? so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin. the counter or the headline news now there's no less have in the t

and for more on this i want to get across to in bremar, he's the president of the eurasia group, a think tank for geo politics and security policy. welcome back on d. w. news. i want to begin with the bigger question on many people's minds at the moment, and that is, can ukraine realistically fend off the russian troops? i don't think anyone that is focused on situation believes that that can happen. they could, if they had direct support from the countries with nato, but of course none of them are prepared to provide direct military support. and the reason for that is because they're not and they don't member and nobody wants to go to work with russia. i mean, this is fundamentally the issue is ukraine matters a lot more than it does to germany, the united states or any of the rest of the alliance. and that president zelinski as courageous as he is. and i saw him speak live in munich last week is, is facing the ultimate sacrifice right now. so is that then the end of ukraine as we know it, as we know it, i mean, the ukrainian people, it won't be, they'll persist a lot. my background is

well earlier i spoke to angela stent — a former us national intelligence officer for russia and eurasially an inflection point. you have this detailed 18—page statement setting out russia and china's strategic partnership, saying that they are better than allies, they don't need a formal alliance, pushing back at the west, saying the west has no right to tell them what to do, and you have the chinese explicitly endorsing the russian demands that nato never enlarge, and of course russia confirming its view that, of the one china policy. and so there was a lot of detail, they also lashed out against the aukus alliance, the united states, great britain and australia, and indeed the west's whole indo—pacific strategy. it is interesting, a lot of the countries they are lashing out at are ones that boycotted the olympics diplomatically due to human rights abuses in china. but if it is a new era, which i think you are outlining there, when it comes to these strategic alliances, what does that really mean, do you think, when it comes to, for example, ukraine? so i think it means that although i

what makes you believe that pakistan can actually pull it off being this bridge, let's say, in eurasia, when so many other countries attempted and failed, was 1st let me say one thing. as a student of history, i do not believe that military conflict solve problems. if you look back, i mean, look at the conflict since 911. i mean, if a 3rd party, dispassionately did a proper analysis of so many people killed, what was the, what was the g at the end? what, what happened and of honest, on 20 years of god knows hundreds of 1000 of people dying. what, what was the achievement? so therefore, i'm not a believer in military conflicts. i believe the civilized societies has all the difference through dialogues. and the countries that rely on military conflict have not started. history probably, do you believe on a personnel that say on a political level in some sense of accountability, maybe historical accountability. do think things will change in the world so that all the greatest operations that you have that could be realized without that as getting very cynical because i hear what you're sa

the latest stunned off, intensifying berlin is apparently making a you turn early rasmussen of the eurasia center. think tank told us who he believes as the most to lose by killing the project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably, go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have latency, i'm sure is liability is related to that germany. so it will be a big loss of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's f, the costs, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it be extremely costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin ah, now in canada, police um cleared the remaining anti cove id mandate. protesters from a key border crossing, following a 7 day shot done of

allies. 0rysia lutsevych is a research fellow and manager of the ukraine forum in the russia and eurasiat the think—tank chatham house. she's been explainig what the so—called "false flag" strategy is, and how russia is using it. that is the strategy that we have seen in ukraine in 2014, before the annexation of crimea, where russia was saying that there is a genocide of russian speakers and that there is an attack on those populations. we have seen false footages of children being molested. that was a pretext for then the russian duma to give consent to the russian president to use force in ukraine. this reminds me very much what was happening. to use proxy formations, these militant formations that russia arms in order to stage an invasion further into ukrainian territory by blaming ukraine of the provocation. and we have seen a similar story in 2008 with the georgian war, so this very much looks like a substantial escalation with the possible military operation. when you talk about the russian duma, you're talking about the request to president putin to recognize the donetsk and luhan

his chief executive officer of micro advisory, which is a strategic consultancy focused on russian eurasia trends me now from london, even before russia's attack on ukraine, governments and central banks around the world were really concerned about the threat of this prolonged period of inflation, which is basically a tax on people's income. how much worse could that now get? ok, well it could select the short answer is a clear you could get a lot worse. so this is an unprecedented event that's happening in ukraine, and therefore we're still only guessing what the consequences may be. clearly the focus is now as your previous speaker said, is on the energy market. it's on those parts of the global economy where russia is a key supplier, so wheat and, and other industrial materials. so if there is any threat of disruption of these key products, then that will of course disrupt global economy. but already you can see to traders are fearful of that driving price is higher. so that's going to feed into globalization big because the cost of these based materials is already a lot higher and will

economic union on the site issue union, where we have a lot of actually the telephone, a unified eurasia, a markets of capital and the workforce shirt and all the countries over the region economic union would be, are feeling the impact of this cooperation, him a plan. yeah. you know what about or not, but i see even among other things, what we discussed is do you, lee, but you might building up your objectives, which of our defense potential metal space you way in the acute, i'm not especially i considering the increased nato activity along the borders of our country's world. so what she knew it was an issue with voted worth. we actually a made a joint, a set of assessment of, of the results of our competitor with a drills junior. it are being held in belarus, with literature. and here will take place, just go over the blog over here in the till the 20, the february. i'm with it's silly, but your little one of to do we have assessed the goals of these her drills and as i informed mr. look a shrink today. i witnessed of, of the progress myself and i saw that there are many attaches from

the vice president of the eurasia center, a forum which works to boost east west relations highlighted to us who he thinks would suffer the most from any fresh sanctions. fear a potentially would be hurt more by these for the banking russian and russia would probably do counter thanking just the 5 we go to new also north stream ended for me would have been the initiative to do this. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that germany. so it will be a big block for the german economy and we don't have the l n g to actually provide that. my understanding is not sufficient gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia, and that's f, the costs. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it be extremely costly. i don't think russia has any big, right? so it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin. the canadian prime minister just introduce acute freedom con boy protest is of trying to derail the economy. and democracy itself, as th

keith, he is a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic councils, eurasia sent, and a full mis spokesman for the o. s. c. e. in europe. he says, developments of the last 24 hours a chilling this speech last night was nothing short of like curdling 8. it was coming from a man who i believe, had no intention of stopping at the so called frontline, dividing the occupied in government control areas of ukraine is the big fear here at the moment is that he will actually try to control of the other parts of lives can to that they basically control at the moment above one 3rd of 2 blocks. and then another possibility is to move further south and create that land bridge between russia proper and crimea. so this has a long way to play out, and i don't believe the sanctions out so far by the white house will do anything to determine if diplomacy was on the floor 2 days ago. i said it was in the basement yesterday. it's down the drain. now, clearly put in, it's not listening to, you know, the day that the statements coming out of the road based international world. he's going to choose his own pass,

with the latest stand off intensifying berlin is apparently making a u turn. earl rasmussen of the eurasia center, a think tank, told us who he believes has the most to lose by killing the project. fear of potentially would be hurt more by these for banking russians and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably, gone to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. i'm sure the liabilities related to that germany, so it'll be a big block of the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide my understanding is not sufficient gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and that's the cost. the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline. it b, scream, really costly. i don't think russia has any big, though. it's mostly nato. you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin. ok, let's turn attention the program now to canada, where the country is busy. as commercial trade route remains closed after freedom

with the latest stand off intensifying berlin is apparently making a u turn. earl rasmussen of the eurasia center, a think tank to las who he believes has the most to lose by killing the project. europe potentially would be hurt more by the, for banking, russian and russia would probably do counter thanking. justifiably go to new also, nor tremendous for me would have been with the initiative to do that. they would have a cancellation fee. it's all, i'm sure is liabilities related to that, jeremy. so it will be a big loss to the german economy and we don't have the l and g to actually provide minor standards, not sufficient supply of gas anywhere in the world to make up what's provided through through russia. and as far as the cost, the price would be extremely, even if you did replace the supplies coming from the pipeline, it to be stream really costly. i don't think russia has any. right. so it's mostly may know you pay in the us that are the ones that are advocating in basin rallies in solid. doroty with canadian truckers protesting cobra restrictions have gone global in the french capi