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speeches, two very different messages to the world. the dramatic split screen as russia s war hits an inflection point. the american president in europe, defending democracy. democracy is the world stand guard over freedom today, tomorrow and forever. his russian counterpart, defending his illegal invasion of ukraine. they are responsible for the escalation of the situation in ukraine. for the huge numbers of casualties. at the center of it all, alliances. some steadfast. some dangerous. nuclear threats and a devastating war nearly a year old with no end in sight. appetites of the autocrat cannot be appeased. they must be opposed. this hour, christiane amanpour interviews polish president duda. what needs to be done to ensure what you say is ukraine s victory in this war and boris johnson joins me with his take on where putin takes this war next. this was a war of choice that he initiated. it was his vicious, non-provoked attack on ukraine. we want to
his russian counterpart, defending his illegal invasion of ukraine. for the huge number of casualties. at the center of it, all alliances, some steadfast, some dangerous. nuclear threats no end in sight. in a cnn exclusive. what more needs to be, done to ensure what you say is ukraine s victory on this war. and former british prime minister boris johnson, joins me with his take, on where putin takes this war next. this was a war of choice,. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states, and around the world, i m wolf blitzer, this is a special edition of the situation room. we are developing news tonight on a missile, test conducted by russia during president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, yesterday. and it comes as the leader at the free world, took on the autocrat trying to destroy ukraine president biden delivering a fiery address in poland today to mark the upcoming one year anniversary of putin s ruthless invasion, and on the other side of ukrai
World. Also a total guarantee. Other phrases that have a total quality are the terms Unconditional Surrender and implying to had to be a total victory and no armistice. But i want to talk about a specific trope in the language of total war and that is the trope of revenge. Revenge, by its very nature is a sort of ratchet. Somebody commits a wrong against you. You seek revenge. They retaliate. They interpret that as a wrong. They come back. And so on and so forth. The momentum of the language of total war is fed on words by the rhetoric and the ideas of revenge. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, key phrases it in the language of the revenge. He blames them, a loosely wrongly, for the defeat of the german luftwaffe in world war i, the rise of bolshevism, for starting world war ii. \ weve also seen this language in American Fighting the japanese in the pacific. Im going to talk little bit today about the european theater of operation on both axis and allied side and the
Obviously a totalizing effect. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, that is clearly the language of total war. I talked to you about human rights. The way in which allied leaders promised that human rights would be secured everywhere in the world. Also a total guarantee. Other phrases that have a total izing quality are the terms Unconditional Surrender implying to had to be a total victory and no armistice. But i want to talk about a specific trope in the language of total war and that is the trope of revenge. Revenge, by its very nature, is a sort of ratchet. Somebody commits a wrong against you. You seek revenge. They retaliate. They interpret that as a wrong. They come back. And so on and so forth. The momentum of the language of total war is fed onwards by the rhetoric and the ideas of revenge. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, he phrases it in the language of the revenge. He blames them, obviously wrongly, for the defeat of the german luftwaffe