so, for russia, this is going to harm russia as well? >> of course.ind of breakup of relationship with europe will harm russia immensely. europe is russia's -- the european union is russia's biggest trading partner. china right now is number one, but europe is more important. there is a lot of business relationship especially between mas -- russia and germany. there's a lot of connections on different levels. vladimir putin is very fluent in german. he addressed the bundestag once in german. russia was always looking for a special relationship with germany, and germany very wants to make germany a hub for russian gas. to all of western europe. possibly bypassing ukraine. and that would be a breakup of that relationship with the very costly in terms of political and in terms of money too. >> this is not the first time we have seen energy being used as a diplomatic political weapon. this happened in the 1970's when opec decided it was not going to supply the west with oil over a variety of different things, including a much money they were getting. so,

you must support russia. you must actively support russia, and you ould defend russia.ralian cossacks to russia where they fired guns and visited a military training facility. [gunshots] sean: in 2018, simeon boikov told a russian media outlet, "we have a unique opportunity to support russia from within an enemy state." he was referring to australia. he said cossacks in australia could "pursue a pro-russian position, lobby politicians and members of parliament, oppose anyone who lies about russia, attacks russia, or imposes sanctions. basically, they can wage an information war." sean: why do you regard australia as an enemy state? simeon: no, australia, in this context, a state which is placing sanctions against russia and behaving in an anti-russian manner, you know, in that way could be perceived that the activities are not the activities of an ally. the main thing to know is we're not against australia at all. we love australia. we will defend australia, and we'll try to defend it, and we wanna facilitate the rehabilitation of australian relations with russia, which

it's a very, very painful for russia and whatever russia tries to go to read down very badly on russia. so i don't see any real upsides for the bike ministration to do very much, to help out roger with the exception of what they call the strategic stability to nuclear weapon. and that's an issue. i think there, there is a kind of a us interest in restraining the sort of the arms race when it comes to intercontinental ballistic missile. that's a separate issue from major to expand your they americans are very happy just just to make life difficult. rush, well, you know, in the same theme here and we go to earns thin and novice out the is. we have nato steve sultan berg. he said right before the summit, he said on nato states are fully prepared for a quote, new armed conflict in europe. i mean, what kind of language is that going into a summit? ok to de escalate tensions and all of that. and what is it, what does he mean by that? what i mean, how do you think he's defining what a military conflict is? because nato is already said, and the united states separately said, they're not going

these a v, both russia and china. and if we look back a bit in, in german history, it was a green, foreign minister, yoshika fisher, in 1999 who actually helped the green party break through its ideological pacifism and back the nato bombing of serbia. yet we're not seeing similar action here from foreign minister, bear bark, or could that change? well, i think she has a done quite a lot in the past few weeks to, to actually make germany somehow visit in visible in the world. and especially in ukraine than in moscow with her visits there. and the problem is that in fact, at this, in this moment, we seem to have in the leadership of the so called traffic light or coalition in the red for the social democrats, the green in for the greens and the yellow for the free democrat. them are for us anyways and, and the greens and the social democrats simply lack at this point in time. these strategically thinking politicians like yours, catfish at the time who was able actually to pull around the cause of his party and . and ev

so again, this is a test for russia.rious about resolving the situation in eastern ukraine, and to resolve it diplomatically and peacefully, minsk is the way to do it. we will fully support efforts to implement the minsk agreements by both parties, and again, we'll see if russia is willing to do that. mr price: simon. reporter: mr. secretary, we'd like to get your assessment of events in kazakhstan, and how that potentially weighs on these meetings with russian officials next week. and more specifically, u.s. officials have raised kind of questions about the csto troops deployment there. what is -- what specifically is the concern about those troops going in? is there an implication that the kazakhstan government hasn't actually invited them in, or how do you see that? secretary blinken: thanks. so first, we are very concerned about the ongoing state of emergency that exists in kazakhstan. secretary blinken: . so first, we are very concerned about the ongoing state of emergency that exists in kazakhstan. we've urged auth

even if russia says they are unsuccessful. all these talks recently we had china, of course, in alaska, that famous blinking meeting went by and became president when china started reading the riot act about native american genocide to the united states. and we saw that tweet or no, it was actually statement by the russian foreign office and replying to blink and saying don't if i read basically don't, if i russians and you houses guests because they'll stay longer than they should. and of course, the russian said you're more likely to be raped or robert, if american stay in your house, maybe the americans, maybe nato, maybe they have their people. they're saying, look, there is a resurgent and certainly a rhetorical, ah anger from moscow badging that we've not seen for a long time. the best thing is to up the ante. i doubt that i think lincoln statement is actually stupid, sang by the russians in another. i'll never go there, and it is now proven wrong. and surprising to go back to a point you made a bit earlier. america's ke

ukraine poses no threat to russia. it bears repeating that it was russia that invaded ukraine in 2014 and occupies crimea to this day. it is russia that continues to fuel a war in eastern ukraine that's claimed nearly 14,000 lives and destroyed entire towns. it is russia and their proxies holding hundreds of ukrainians as political prisoners. it's because of russia's action that nearly three million ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance. while the suffering is most acute in crimea and eastern ukraine, ukrainians everywhere have felt the effects of russia's aggression. russia has interfered in ukraine's elections and blocked energy and commerce, launched cyber attacks and used propaganda and information to sow distrust and causing renewed crisis not only for ukraine, but all of europe, indeed as secretary blinken said for the wider world. one country cannot change the borders of another by force, or dictate the terms of another country's foreign policy, or forbid another country from choosing its own allianc

russia has a mass troops, allegedly inside of russia. russia has said in writing, look, this is a red line, couldn't set at the end of the year press conference. this is a red line. we will not let you crane. we will not let our border area be a staging ground for advanced weapons with missiles whose flight time might be 2 or 3 minutes to their targets in russia, or to allow ukraine to be permanently in nato. so that kind of scenario can play out. that's a red line, we're not going to let that happen. and so, and as he also said with the u. s. possibly of what russia do this at the us mexican border, or the u. s. canadian border, of course not. so again, this is an american created crisis, but one where russia actually does have to respond and actually make clear that this, in fact, is unacceptable. long term and short term for russia's national interest. you know, john went looking at the media drumbeat here and the gas as well. that was just mentioned by biting. i mean by just let the mass drop for a 2nd. the stop you talked about one of the scenarios here. he got off script. this i

all of the issues between russia and nato, russia in the west. what they were an opportunity to do was to, to make sure that the diplomatic route was still very much open. certainly what we've heard from certainly love role. that seems to be the case that there's plenty more ground to be covered by diplomacy. yet when it comes to the situation, the tensions between russia renae so we of course have to wait to see how the united states viewed these talks before. we can get a full picture of exactly how they went down. like the ts me are expecting me. anthony, blinking to talk to the press. any minute now and as soon as he does, we will go straight to it. but thanks for now. that was printer all reporting in geneva, watching out east or to come for you this hour. ok, well i'm sorry. we sold that to auntie, blinking. it's gonna talk any minute now. so we'll get prepared for that. but in the meantime, we're gonna take a quick break. ah booty lou ah ah ah. with no i oh, when i would show the wrong one, i'll just don't rule out the thing because the at

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let's remember is traditionally very russia friendly. the former spd chancellor sits in the board of directors of gazprom and one of the leading proponents of north stream two and this project. um should it be canceled should the german government openly declare that it will be void if russia invades ukraine. this will have a real domestic political fallout for t the spd for chancellor schulz party. and these are the issues right now. unfortunately in the internal debates in germany that are being placed over our international obligations to lead on security and peace in europe. michel, you say it's all about the showdown between russia and the us. so does anything germany could do actually matter, would it make a difference. oh yes it would make a huge difference simply because if we do actually matter, would it make a difference. oh yes talk about all the possible measures the west could take if there was any conflict between russia and ukraine or a russian invasion. in in this case it is above and formal of it is germany in the first

they cannot b o, a niecy arrangement to be russia because if russia, oh will not be considered as an adversary of natal. they will be no joke. no objective for nato and venus. united states will lose its super rossi in europe and the object if she is to fragment europe on to torpedo any reset between western europeans on russia, and in order to prevent mercy, pull our richie to emerge. pierre, and i know it's a man geopolitical expert. thank you very much for joining us on the program. we appreciate it now, just hours before the nato chief spoke, russia's foreign minister spelled out clearly that the country does not want war, sir, gala ralph reiterated moscow's position on escalating tensions with the west. however, he also noted moscow. com to stand by watching its interests being ignored. love rob shared his thoughts during a 90 minute interview to rush and journalists among them was our teeth editor in chief, margarita sim onion, his aunt, mister latter. i've had to say, yes, this is alicia authorities configured c. lately. if it depends on the russian federation, then there will

troops towards russia. this isn't, this isn't an issue of where russia is coming out and saying, oh, we don't like that the united states as station so many troops and in her texas, for example, on the border with mexico, the united states coming out and saying that it's concerned with russian troop movements inside russia. there are passages full of inhuman force, his hand stupidity, for example. they call fake mosque a statement that the re positioning of russian trips in russian territory means repositioning of russian troops on russian territory. brilliant. what is there more hair lies or illiteracy? i did not even want to deal with it. i know one thing for sure. this could only be published by the ministry of truth. the document is full of obfuscation and misleading statements. for example, it says that this is fiction that the nato isn't surrounding russia as, as moscow has claimed in recent years. well, the, the facts of it is earth said, says russia has 14 neighbors. only 5 of them are nato members.

because there is not war he tween russia and ukraine. this is a war between authoritarian regime and democracy. and next countries will be countries from european union or from nato because as we know, it's not about, it's not about, you know, rational reasons for putin. it's more about the global idea. as he said a few years ago that it should be some common space from -- to lisbon. this is the idea. he tries to reestablish -- in their former border. he tried to spread kremlin influence on the warsaw pact countries. so right now we need to be stronger, is the bank of nato and old democracy. at our partnership understanding that we fight for all democratic worlds, not only for ukraine. i i think i can stop here, if yu have any questions, i would like to answer them. >> thank you very much, yehor for the coverage is outlook or i would like to get your opinion on what other security support measures could be on the right now in addition to the prospects of the nato membership action plan and eventual membership which will not happen in the

and if russia chose tojoin it, fine, russia canjoin too.europe and the us, and russia is the one trying to pull that away and break up the alliance. and do you see it, as olha is asking there, that this global instability has been with us for a long time and may continue for a long time? that's up to russia. i think, if i can step in, there is a huge gap between, we're not about talking eu or nato or us, orjust any other, it is something where the collective west has got the extremely good experience of building the consensus. and now in a global world, where you cannot take decisions only on your own, on behalf your country — when it comes to covid, to energy crisis, even to military force. we have learned how to make the consensus, and how to make collectively the decisions. but what putin hadn't learned is to be part of some consensus. broader consensus. and until he understands that he should be a player together with everybody, this could change the situation... you say putin is not part of a consensus, but he has got friends, hasn't h

essentially, russia believes that ukraine is moving closer and closer into the western. russia believes that it's essentially on the kind of slippery slope to nato membership. and this is partly seen through increasing cooperation between the ukrainians and western military's. the russians want that door to potential nato membership to be close. the thing is, the nato side say it's not in rushes, it's no place for russia to decide what any other country should do in terms of its military alliances. that every individual sovereign state has to have the freedom to join whatever alliance he chooses. so it's pretty difficult to find any kind of agreement on that. but where there is potentially scope for agree.

listen also to russia argument. if it's interest and security objections are threatened by a further nita expansion, germans have their own term for those whose who sympathize with russia and with its president vladimir putin. they call this putin festa, none the less few people here would have supposed that such sentiments would manifest themselves at the highest levels of the german military. ah, the german admiral and far away, india fired these words like gunshots, striking many ukrainians, right. in the heart. i spoke with his nose of east loose. it's bliss. oh, he really lost disrespect. ah, yeah. russia against trotter ronny evans was gone. look a minute. this is effect the ukranian response was swift with ukrainian ambassador firing back on twitter. german arrogance and megalomania. the german government has to change its course towards kiev, and he has major vitale couldn't go even complained that germany had committed treason against ukraine. is germany, still a trustworthy ally to ukraine? i wanna put tha

and russia have suck. in fact, it hasn't been this bad since the cold war ended some 30 years ago, and called right in the middle europe and ukraine. here is ukraine's un ambassador . ukraine strongly rejects any attempt to use the threat of force as an instrument of pressure to make a crane and our partners except illegitimate demands. there is no room for compromise. on principle is use the most principal position of for ukraine that we have inherent, sobering right? to choose our own security arrangements, including treaties of alliance, which cannot be questioned by russia. more although, these ride is enshrined in many international legal instruments. the thrush itself, a body to my 1st gets to 9, says this crisis over ukraine is about more than the threat of a russian invasion. it is about the trans atlantic security order, as we know it, and rushes determination to change it. in her latest book putin's world russia against the west and with the rest, professor angela stent analyzes what is motivated

except that russia has invaded ga, russia has taken over crimea. russia has invaded dunbar. russia has installed iskander, a nuclear tipped missiles with arranged to reach you in berlin. and russia has shot down that malaysian airliner with citizens on it. so actually, it should be us that should be asking russia for security guarantees. i to ask you, mr. sure. course you actually, as we mentioned at the beginning, worked hard to bring ukraine closer to the european union when you, with a polish foreign minister. how did you expect russia to respond to that? well, why should that russia respond to it at all? countries have the right to choose which should trade, which customs areas they belong to. we were negotiating a similar arrangement with russia herself. it's none of russia's business. so you creighton is an independent country. in the face of what you say is very clear aggression here from russia. what do you think the european union should be doing now? well, decisions to supply defensive equipment or national decisions. but if you are against war, you should be helping ukraine

the russia, u. s. talks in geneva settled basically nothing. however, the biden administration can no longer say it does not understand russia's position on pan european security. the ball is in washington's court. ah, discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, glen beeson in oslo. he is a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of the book, great power politics in the 4th industrial revolution. and in budapest, we have george samuel lee. he's a pod, castor at the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals are a gentleman. crosstalk rules and effect. that means you can jump in any time you want, and i always appreciate it. oh, let's go to glen 1st. glen, you know, we had about 2 weeks of meetings, different formats are essentially on the same topic, at least from the russian perspective, and trying to get nato on the same page. to talk about pan european security. i watch. the presser is log off and blinking, blinking is move though, got a little bit in the right direction, but not very far in my o

and criticizing him in personifying russia, in the person of russia's president. to the extent that anything that vladimir putin says or does is inherently evil and must be opposed. and that's what we have right now. as you said, it's cartoonish in nature because this is bateau bullwinkle. you know, boris and natasha kinds of sinus. it's not reality. and it's going to lead to disaster because again, i'll leave it with this. we can't fight a war in europe today. we cannot, neither can europe, neither can nato nato knows this. i've challenged anybody who's affiliated with nato. tell me how nato can mobilize an armored core in 10 days. you will never get an answer to say can't. they would be able to do it in 10 weeks . rush on the other hand, can put 2 combined arms army that are trained for deep offensive operations in the field was in a week. this is the 1st garge tank army in the 20th combined army. both former cold war formation station did east germany that were the same. whoa, whoa, whoa. european peace and the aftermath of the solution of warsaw pact to paul t

and russia talks are underway. cnn is characterizing them as high-stakes, would you agree with that? >> it is higher stakes putin hasn't really introduced a brinksmanship policy. he wants security guarantees it's very difficult for the united states and the allies to issue those guarantees. it is a high-stakes negotiation records what our security guarantees is he looking for? >> he posted a bunch of them. basically he wants to ensure nato does not expand to ukraine. president biden has been pretty explicit in his previous dealings with president putin nato expansion is not on the table president biden has said ukraine has to deal with the question of corruption which is a pervasive before ukraine could begin to consider ukrainian to nato. there are high-stakes and it does not appear anyway there's a lot of room for compromise especially on the russianci sid. >> why not? >> putin has put himself into a corner. his rhetoric has expanded tremendously and of his advisors. if the united states and its allies do not pro

. ukraine does not threaten russia. and so the idea that russia, which has attacked ukraine and has attacked other countries in the neighborhood and has taken with territory, can be a threat, is real, which is why it's important for a country like ukraine to seek to join us. so no, i don't see that being taken off the table as a possibility won't happen soon, but i don't think anyone's going to write off that possibility. pizza, when you look at the statements made by ne to european allies over the last few years over the issue of the acquaint. do you feel like you're on a confident position where if needs be the americans along with they to and europeans would be that to protect the ukrainians? very good question. let me just pick up briefly, comment on what vegetable percent and in country, what our russians finally said. you know why the russia is or is not planning to attack. don't boss let, let's be clear. let's be clear that it already has. it has a next crimea country to all international agreements, and it insti

would actually go to war against russia, not just over ukraine, but, you know, take by crimea, push russia out of south. so you can have it both ways. you can't say the brush made in the future company, no threat to rush on at the same time. are you that are, you should use force against them. also, this idea that rush should have no beat. so this is also, you know, we say over and over again as if it makes any sense. i mean, if it made was going to monopolize so security in europe that and the biggest country in europe should not have any say or, i mean, this is an absurd statement. obviously, russia will have, you know, either has it within institutions or it will have to rely on its own, on this military in order to uphold that, you know, which is now express a red line. so nothing makes any sense. and the last one is nato secretary general, explicitly saying naval does not discriminate against new and old members. well, this was the whole point of the navy, russia funding act of 1997. this very explicit promise committed not to putting metal to permanent troops in eastern europe. and n

and russia. if europe doesn't get a more active role, it will simply be sidelined by the big powers and a warm welcome to typical bush julia from dws, russian department, he believes the russian wolf is at the door. so are the western ducks going to try and sit this one out too. if so, good luck, interesting stuff, plenty to talk about. so let's get on with it. mikhail, you are laughing. tell us a little bit about the ducks and the wolf. what does it all mean? listen if we see it as a game though morally it's it's problematic but if we see it as a game, then we can see a huge asymmetry in the conflict between the west and russia where russia is ready to raise the stakes knowing it is a weaker player, it still has skin in the game and is ready for action while the west is not and that's the huge difference between them. so the problem is i don't see in the moment any any i idea to stop putting from doing what he's planning to do, rachel, what have you got to say about that? who is threatening who?

host: an russia considers crimea part of russia now. guest: that is correct. host: let's hear from james in virginia, republican line. caller: i am just confused. during the h. bush presidency, and then he had been in power for so long, but merkel from germany just got out of power and she only served three years less than putin had been and she probably would've ran for another term in popularity. but we continuously make putin to be a bad guy. correct me if i am wrong, he had not gone into ukraine yet, hasn't he? if he has not gone in there why cant he be on the border? it is his sovereign country. we are truly making more of this than it is. he came out during the russian collusion and said they had nothing to do with it. host: james, our guest. guest: it is a great question but i see that a bit differently. the first important thing is to return to the conversation we had about crimea and to recognize that russia has already invaded ukraine. they already seized part of an independent country and then backed an insurgency in eastern ukraine. russia has alre

good nato does not encircle russia. nato enlargement is not directed against russia. over the last 20 years old nato coalition potential has been a mass on its eastern flank. the lances expansion towards russian borders is accompanied by the creation earned modernization of military infrastructure. russia has 60 neighbors in the ninety's. only one of those was the nato state. that it became to poland joined, then it became 5 with ukraine and ga, potentially joining. that would be 7 with all the perks that carries like us bases and troops. pray tell how was that not the dictionary definition of encirclement. russia uses statement from high level officials, as well as disinformation and propaganda outlets to intentionally spread outright falsehoods, to attempt to create a pretext for military action. we all know how the u. s. uses differ information to create a pretext for invading independent states. the irony seems lost entirely on the us state department. we still remember collin bow, right. sadam. hussein has not verifiably accounted for even one teaspoonful of this

what does russia want most? an unstable dependent ukraine, or a new sphere of influence in eastern europe? like a well, you know, we spoke about she has of inference today as well. when on a stable ukraine is indeed recently a factor of our everyday political life. but this instability, well, i know you are an experienced journalist and i do understand where this instability comes from. if you look at what's happening around portia angles returning to keep of all the subsequent events house all organized as for spheres of influence. go i asked anthony, blinking to day, i asked him to explain but you will have to present a cath, austin, boy asked for help to the c su based on this year's due chapter for assistance in mr. pursing the terrorists and her brooklyn beautiful my daughter. so, you know, there were demands that catholic, stanford explain why it did what it did. you know, this illustrates that the west is confident of its own special status. they are allowed to do everything. others are not allowed to do

let's start with russia.rgei, what are the consequences for russia? well, the problem is we don't know what kind of military conflict we could have. could it be a small operation, a long operation? could the russians, you know, invade and try to capture more territory? or, you know, will they even invade at all? there are lots of uncertainties. i think the ambassador has rightly pointed out that there will be sanctions for russia, so that is something that i'm sure is influencing calculations, putin's calculus, as he considers what to do. their — obviously, if the war becomes long, which i don't think they want, it would have an impact on putin's domestic popularity. long wars do not help anybody�*s popularity, so i'm pretty sure that russia, if it were to take military action, it would want to avoid a quagmire, that's for sure. what are the consequences of a military conflict for ukraine? we do not consider that there will be a full military aggression on the territory of ukraine, but until there, it would b

it is owned and operated by russia. it transports natural gas from russia to germany, it has been an operation for about a decade. nord stream two is a parallel pipeline that has been built, but it is not yet operational, or online as they say. it is now potential leverage in the negotiations with russia. if nord stream 2 goes on a line, that would mean much more gas going from russia to germany, which actually could affect ukraine, it is not anywhere close to it in several ways. for more on that, i want to bring in chris miller, he is the author of putin onyx, power and money in resurgent russia. thank you for joining us this. evening oil and gas power the russian economy. but they are different, oil can be set anywhere by rail or by ship, but with some exceptions, most natural gas today primarily flows through pipelines like nord stream. how does this pipeline that takes natural gas from russia to germany, nowhere near ukraine, play into this crisis? well, right now, russia is europe's biggest supplier of natural gas

there were threats of more sanctions on russia and export controls putting, put on russia in a way to hurt their economy and access to certain items. now what's interesting was, while anthony lincoln's tone was rather calm. and he seemed to emphasize that they wanted a diplomatic and negotiated solution to the issue. it seemed like the press and the reporters were asking him questions, were anxious to demand that he go into greater conflict and there'd be bigger tension. this is some of the interactions that went on between anti blanket and the u. s. mainstream media. just finding time to later the place to invade ukraine, making you jump through hoops like and delivering written responses to questions that you vance at time and time again. in the past, the meanwhile, that the stabilizing ukraine from within the economy's crumbling, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars showing them up. what point do you stop playing rushes game and take preemptive action? now? we can walk and chew gum at the same time, and that's very much what we've been doing. so we've been clear to russi

what russia has done. so in the past several times when so you should be super signaled, but i think there needs to be some progress on behalf of the security offers off the west towards russia. otherwise, the russia would make its own policy incredible if it withdrew its troops right away. yeah, but it's, of course, an option that russia has in hands. also, russia depends on its international image, which is being spoiled now by western media outlets. and only russia being the aggressor. and so for russia, it may be an important move to show that they are a reliable, responsible partner, that they are only defensive in terms of their troop movements. and at the time, at the same time they right. and you can make the same arguments about the west dom and ukraine should that stop? well, definitely this should stop because it's part of the escalation strategy which leads us into nowhere. the more weapons that are delivered. busy into ukraine, more also military consultants and experts that are stationed ther

forces near russia borders. i'm the removal of american nuclear weapons from europe. well, let's cross live now to the us, where kill up my pen will join us. we'll speak to peter all over there on your screen as well, or europe correspondent a little bit later as well. but kim, just starting with you the document with 100 over here in moscow, at secretary of state blink and talked out, but it's at the lent really. but not a lot seem to come out of it. can you take us through the developments of the evening from washington? sure, anthony blank in the us secretary of state, spoke to the press at the us state department and said that this document has been prepared and provided to russia. now he emphasized that nato will be creating a document of its own, a separate document on behalf of the nato coalition. that will also be delivered to russian officials. now they are not making this document public. they have decided that they will not reveal it to the public. it will simply be given to russian officials. this is

and, we will see how russia responds. reporter: secretary, have you considered the russians are just buying time to find a place to invade ukraine. maybe you jump through hoops like get delivering handwritten questions to answer and meanwhile there stabilizing ukraine from human -- from within. at what point do you stop playing russia's game and take preemptive action now. sec. blinken: first, we are not standing still, and we can walk and chew gum at the same time and that is what we have been doing. we have made it clear to russia that they are -- that there is a path of diplomatic and deterrence, and if russia chooses aggression it will lead to massive consequences. even though we engage in diplomacy which is my job and responsibility, we have been resolutely preparing for russia to take the path of aggression. and as i laid out the work that we have done over the past couple of months and bringing allies and partners together around massive consequences for russia shuddered new its aggression in the very detailed repo

this crimea was annexed by russia. it almost sounds like god, blush for putting fire hen and navy chief must not play his own foreign policy game in a crisis. clearly vice admiral schon box thought he was off the record, but he was also fundamentally wrong on prospects of appeasing russia. ukraine is also not happy with what has gone on. in fact, the foreign ministry in t f is calling on germany to officially distance themselves from their former navy chief. and what he talked to say, they saying that these comments went on to undermine the sovereignty of ukraine, the foreign minister, they're calling them on acceptable. but this is just the latest issue that we've seen very recently between berlin just last week. there were problems over the fact that berlin doesn't want to send weapons into ukraine. also, germany has blocked the sale of a stony and weapons that were german made to ukraine. this su concerning the now former navy chief, just the latest and was becoming a growing number of problems. let's learn a little

do russia propaganda claims? the russian language and russian speakers were never under any physical harm threat then the russian language wasn't right. this is completely concocted as a rational for the annexation of premier and the subsequent instigation of the war in the dunbar. what we're seeing is happening in ukraine. what we're seeing, what's happening with bella was, which has essentially become a protectorate of russia as essentially cease to exist as it defacto independence states. what we're seeing in context on where russia has invoked its collective security treaty to restore order. it really, it really matches what we heard say over the, over the years that he considers the breakup of this. so you have a great, the greatest one of the greatest geopolitical tragedies of the 20th century. he missed this, so he didn't, he misses russia's ability to project power to what is called the near abroad. obviously, there will be a semblance of that, that he will try to reunite as and under rushes umbrella. val

obviously, one of the 1st things we talked about is relations with russia, between a rod and russia, the strategic corporation deal. that is, that is still being in between the 2 countries that goes way into the future, 20 years into the future, envisioning all sorts of cooperation between iran and russian. i us, the iranian president, why, by russia, and he says that the 2 countries have a lot that they agree on. there is a lot that they can mutually benefit on and that ultimately they are both countries that want to be free or their own. solitary. a main principal is that we do not want to accept domination over other countries and do not want to be oppressed. we want to be an independent country, just like russia wants to be here. and it is these countries that want to be independent, but being attacked by their right below the americans don't want to independent countries. i mean, we oppose american domination, pushing the gist of what he said is that the united states and its allies think again, many that they want to crush any nation that wants to charge it its own course in in

but that's exactly what russia and china had been doing. in the case of syria and elsewhere, i should think was like, you know, more than 2500 miles away from where we are right now in syria. the misery for millions who are still living under a saw that misery continues and it's faded a lot from the public radar. we have to admit that. what does today's landmark court case? what does it mean for those syrians? well, you know, one important element of this is, there are certain countries. denmark is a good example which want to pretend that it is safe to send the syrian refugees back to syria. because in most of syria, the wars or restrict, you know, the assad government back to its usual repressive ways. but you know, human rights watches don investigations where we found that, you know, people who on go back to syria relative handful people are treated as suspicious just because they laughed and they are subject to the same detention centers. the same torture, the same risk of atrocity so um, in what we saw today in plants, the focus of th

should russia attack ukraine? ladiva, what do you think is bush's biggest concern is cit, nato's expansion? or is it just the fear of seeing a neighbor which is more vibrant, setting up a strong democracy that could further spread eastwards. ah, well ah, thank you for the question. actually. first of all, i would like just to show brief the command on what the r y aah ukrainian kali ker panel is set. i was surprised at saying by him that russia is made an aggression to a crimea, that that is not true actually, because there was a dialogue, both in crimea and the crimea, and sexually or near voice the gave their voice the to the original location with rush well, that was not the gears of just for the record that the russian narrative internationally were talking about annexation of the crimea. and also actually that one and encouraged and not in the delay eastern territories. ah, that's was not annexation. and that was not the end in gush. it's the casa, well, actually, i, i, i will get straight to the point, i wou

i hope to realize that no time to make a little deal, at least with russia, negotiate what bothers russia most. and those are those intermediate arrangements. ballistic missiles, a finesse that they do thing and, and we'll get a more stable relationship, which is what i wanted said i wanted was fresher. even philip, i mean, who is advising by? there's a deal on a hill. it's a gate sullivan, is it victoria new and, you know, bill because, you know, they're, they're scenario is it, we have to knock russia out, knock it out, and then we take on, we take on china, that is with me going to fill here, this one, this child's playing, this is child's play. why? why is the russian china have a close strategic relationship now? it was made in america. go ahead film. yeah, right. is absolutely right about china being a wild card that is suddenly presented here. and it will certainly drive thinking among those people in the white house who are actually capable. and the problem there is that there are, there are few and far between the hatred of russia, this like a rush hour. you want to pass fraser i