justification, a rationalization. they said they found a bomb under a bridge. 200 kids on a bus and if an attack would kill russian citizens. looking for a potential false flag. will: trey yingst embedded with troops taking fire from russian separatist troops. that is a predicate to trigger ukraine to respond which allows a russian invasion. rachel: if you allow sanctions, some could be banking sanctions, things to hurt the russians in that way. another sanction could be on energy going to germany. obviously germany doesn t want that. you know secretary of energy under trump rick perry was
president bush had to do in 1991 during the first gulf war. it was very the groundwork has been laid for a very complicated coalition. what you heard the president say is that european allies will be hurt most by these banking sanctions that are being put into place. they requested that the u.s. and europe not use the switch sanction, which is kind of known as the nuclear option off the bat. what you see is britain and the united states cutting russia off from their financial markets. they are going to see in a month how much that squeeze is russia. you mentioned how the u.s. stock market is already coming back a bit. russian markets, not so much. it lost half of its value overnight. sandra: thank you very much, jen. sandra: we need some analysis as to why the market is doing what it is doing. you can guess a number of things, but i would like to hear
circle to hide money, to launder money, and invest in western economies in ways that can make it difficult to get at those resources. the message communicated here is that if you are in vladimir putin s inner circle you are personally going to pay for what he s doing. that elite structure around him is going to pay a high cost, potentially lose their lifestyle, their status for what he is doing. and then the broader banking sanctions, again, that s the kind of thing that will take a hit over time. a broader effect. there s no indication, in the near term because of sanctions. we ve heard of similar sanctions, the elites and their families in the past, how are these different?
has to be thrown into the mix. during the truman presidency, the soviet influence was really taking hold in greece and turkey. we came up with the truman doctrine, looked at stability in europe, the marshall plan and it needs to be an overall focus on readiness in the united states, building or military capability, creating energy independence for the united states, strengthening the united states, allowing congress to do its role with regard to strength and sanctions. i also think the american people need to see things other than banking sanctions. president reagan, when the incursions occurred in poland, basically denied operations by the russian airlines. if you look at that now, hubs in new york and washington, d.c., and miami, access to the united states. gives them access to the oligarchs in the united states as well as the americans. the sanctions need to be stronger but it needs to be more
after crimea were not very willing to put in very tough sanctions, that this time around they do seem to have come around to a view of maybe some stronger sanctions? well, i hear that there would be crippling sanctions, but i think we would have to see what the specifics would look like. if there was that little slip of the president that it sort of depended on the nature of what the russians did. right. and i m not sure that we would see the kinds of crippling sanctions, for instance, banking sanctions that would deny dollar denominated transactions to the russians. if we had more limited activity. the president of ukraine says that maybe nato membership is a dream. do you think that at the end of the day where we are going to come out of this is everybody knows ukraine is not likely to become a member of nato, but nobody is going to say it