we have ian bremmer with more. it is important to have you on how does this play out in europe what is vladimir putin's ultimate end game? >> well, we have seen nord stream 1 capacity go from y40% o 20%. i would be surprised if there is any gas flowing from russia to germany by the time we get to winter all this with the sanctions and efforts to find diversified sources and reduce use has showed russia they are trying to move as quickly as humanly as possible to get away from russia once that happens, russia no longer has leverage. you have to ask putin fully being aware of that and is he prepared to sit and wait for europeans to wait? that answer is clearly from russia so far in last few months is no. that will make it a hard winter for the europeans. >> that is unlikely to change. the worse he gets, the more europe will dig in and say forget about europe and we will go to natural gas and renewables all at the same time putin adding on to the pipeline network to china building on his umbilical cord, if you will, i

ian bremmer and author of the new book "the power of crisis." welcome back to our program.. i want to play a clip from last hour. michael pillsbury, you know him well. an expert on china affairs said the following about what is at stake literally at this moment. watch here. >> the way this is all handled in the next 30 minutes whether she gets into taiwan airspace and lands without harassment from the chinese is one thing. whether she leaves peacefully tomorrow and they don't harass her airplane is another thing. it's a very sensitive 24 hours ahead of us. >> bill: i don't know if you disagree with that. i saw a video you filed earlier today. the title on your video, we're heading to a taiwan crisis and i looked at that and i thought maybe we insert china instead of taiwan. do you see it the same way here? it could be an international matter? >> yes, and i think you are right. it is the china crisis in the same way ukraine is really about russia. it the kremlin crisis, the putin crisis. obviously if the chinese military were to harass pelosi coming in or out. she will be es