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the behavior toward russian federation and putin personally is part of what makes carlson in their view a kremlin information friend. the kremlin told the russian press as part of the push it is quote essential to air fox news clips that back putin. all of this, a strange set of bed fellows as we see one of the most prominent conservatives and trump allies using fox news to say things the kremlin literally wants to promote inside russia. ambassador michael mcfaul is back with me. ambassador, you covered so many aspects of this, given your expertise. on friday, you were blowing the whistle how putin is using same powers domestically to shut down local press, one of the only outlets, one that you appeared at and spoke russian on that led to that outlet being closed after it went viral. curious what you see on the other side of interplay. there s a real war but
partner. today, china is the much more significant power. and, you know, to paraphrase barack obama, russia really is the regional power with nuclear weapons. i don t think that china will see this in any way as a net positive. obviously they re very uncomfortable with what s happening. they were surprised that putin invaded, if you believe the chinese officials. they re uncomfortable. they re going to back putin, xi is committed to this relationship, but by the same token they re in no position to mediate it. i think they ll keep their head down and avoid having the war in ukraine damage the chinese brand any more than it already has. what do you think the best u.s. move is with respect to china right now? the best move is to let china
appears to be, you know, bored with just having russia to play with. he apparently is feeling expansionist. he thinks we know for sure that the soviet union never should have broken up. he calls that the greatest political catastrophe of the 21st century: he apparently thinks that she should have control of ukraine even though ukraine is a separate country. he kind of likings the idea of a little renewed russian empire of his own to play with. so he did send troops to invade ukraine, and he seized part of their country, and says that s part of russia. that was several years ago. he s now threatening to do it again, and the united states does have an ally in this fight. we have an ally in this fight, and an antagonist in this fight. russia is the antagonist, ukraine is the ally. here s president biden trying to convene the democracies of the world which among other things means, no, not russia, you re not invited. he s doing that, i think, not coincidentally at the same time that he s b