and others, puts us in a position for west to be able to respond to this contingency in the most united and purposeful way possible. that will pay dividends for us in this circumstance, but it will also pay enormous strategic dividends for the united states in the years and decades to come. our understanding is that there was a sudden meeting last night in the situation room and you re using sharper rhetoric about the timing of the invasion. i know you don t want to get into specific intelligence, but is there something that prompted the meeting last night and that has changed the administration s assessment overnight. so i m not going to speak to internal deliberations and not getting into the specifics of intelligence information. what i am going to say, is that for sometime now, including out of my own very mouth, we have been talking about how we had entered the window where any day now a military action could be taken. that was the formula i was using several days ago.
and it would include continued support to ukraine. the president held a secured video conference today with key allies and partners to coordinate our approach to this crisis. the participants were the u.k., france, germany, italy, canada, poland, romania, the secretary general of nato and the presidents of the european union. we have achieved a remarkable level of unity and common purpose from the broad strategy, down to the technical details. if russia proceeds, it s long term power and influence will be diminished, not enhanced by a invasion. it will have to make more concessions to china. it will face massive pressure on its economy and export controls that will erode its defense industrial base and face a wave of condemnation from around the world. if on the other hand russia
council to call up the nato response force and a request coming in for american forces to be a part of that. finally, i can t get inside of the head of president putin. i m not going to speculate as to his motivations, his intention or his decisions. all i ll say is that we re ready either way. if president putin wants to engage in diplomacy, we re prepared and we would like to find a diplomatic path forward and we ve sketched out the parameters for that. if president putin chooses to move forward we ll work in lockstep to respond decisively. it sounds like you re saying that the assessment previously that putin has not yet made a decision still stands. so i guess based on that, is it your assessment that it is more likely that invasion could happen now than previously believed? look, it is hard to assign a percentage probability to any of this. we have to think about the range of scenarios that we confront and it is our job to be ready for all of them.
would be sustained in the event of an invasion. due to sanctions and export controls and the like. just one more thing on the broader issue of china and russia, because there was quite a bit of hype about the statement that they put out and it was a notable statement that we have taken careful look at. i said this before, i want to say it again and i ll leave because jen is now standing up and it is rl past my time to go. the united states under the biden administration has confidence in us and in the west, we are 50% plus of global gdp. china and russia are less than 20%. we have innovation. we have entrepreneurship, we have freedom. and when you put all of that together, the tools and capacities that we could bring to bear, now that we are more united, more purposeful, more dynamic that we ve been in a very long time, we are well situated to deal with any threat or challenge that would be posed to us by any autocracy in the
states is stepped up alongside other nato allies to deter and reassure and reinforce our presence along the eastern flank. what about the preinvasion sanctions. you didn t answer that part of my question. is the president looking at sanctions ahead of an invasion any differently than he has up until this point given the escalation we re seeing from russia. the president believe that s sanctions are intended to deter and in order for them to work to deter, they have to be set up in a way where if putin moves, then the costs are imposed. we believe that is the right logic, both on its own martds but we believe the most important fundamental that is through diplomacy or result of military action is that the west be strong, be united and determined to operate with common purpose and he believes that the sanctions approach he s taken in lockstep with our european partners, the canadians