. >> sandra: ian bremer now, president of eurasia group and author of "the power of crisis." ian, marking the occasion looking back and not expected to last this long. nor did anybody predict that ukraine could hang on this long. but are we at a turning point in this brutal war? >> we are escalating, and both sides are, of course, the russians are now targeting civilian critical infrastructure all across the country because they don't have the ability to retake substantial ukrainian land on the ground. meanwhile, nato, having done an enormous amount economically to punish the russians are expanding support militarily for the ukrainians. and we should remember the things we are talking about, heavy artillery, leopard 2 and maybe even abram heavy tanks as well as the patriot air defense system that we were talking about, of course, over the course of the last several weeks, three months ago, four months ago, if you were talking to nato leaders or american political officials they would have said we don't want to provide those weapons system, too dangerous, too potentially he is

. >> the president ian bremer hails the resilience of the world's democracies but warns

inflationary crisis, as well as constant disruptions in global supply chains today we look to 2023 with ian bremereopolitical and economic risks, leads the list russia in exile, which continues its attacks on ukraine followed by all dolphin weapons of mass destruction inflationary shock waves and iran rounding out the top five and ane thank you for joining us no wonder you identified russia as the number one risk in next year, tell us about it, if you look at these 5 points, four of them are very similar aging dictators and technical advances, in fact, this is a whole group of people who make very destructive decisions without expert evaluation and without a system of checks and balances on their power and then is the most dangerous of of this group precisely because as of february of last year he made the most about it of all the great leaders on the world stage now he and his country are paying for it and there is no way back to the status quo exists even under during the caribbean crisis, when we were threatened with armageddon, both sides had the opportunity to calm down and then return to bus

mistakes that they don’t teach us to participate in the war against russia with might and main , ian bremeral science at columbia university at columbia, said. we are not in a cold war with russia we are in a hot war with russia now it is a proxy war and you are not fighting it directly. we fight it through ukraine more perfect military equipment is delivered to ukraine literally every day this week. here is a confirmation of these words, germany announced the transfer of american air defense missile systems to poland . apparently for their further transportation in ukraine here. the main thing is that the peacemaker woke up secretary general. nato ian stoneberg said that relations with russia as before are no longer possible. yes, even if the conflict in ukraine ends, therefore, stoltenberg believes that kiev needs to transfer more tanks, more weapons, and now the decisive phase of the nato war the allies, from all sides, are putting pressure on germany to supply new tanks for the armed forces, but they are not in a hurry. britain was the first to open the pandora's box associated with tan

. >> the president ian bremer hails the resilience of the world's democracies but warns