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Some of that unification. right? the strain of widespread humanitarian disasters, the need of other nations around the ukraine crisis to adapt, to essentially come to the rescue, that creates political, diplomatic and up the mentally economic difficulties. that is mission critical right now for any chance of countering russia splits through ukraine. how do you retain that unity as we start to see these challenges build? almost immediately, as soon as the missile started flying? joining us now is former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. he was in that role, ambassador, when russia invaded and annexed crimea in 2014. ambassador mcfaul, it is good to see you, thank you for joining us. glad to be here, rachel. welcome back. thank you. let me just ask you first for how you are feeling. how, as somebody you have been watching this so closely you have lived through a
The end no matter what the cost, no matter what the consequences to our own economies. much less than what we re inflicting on russia and, of course, much, much less than the people of ukraine are suffering just right now. ambassador daalder, we will revisit. appreciate your time today, sir. my pleasure. a massive wave of ukrainians desperately fleeing their homes. we re live on the ground next. do you think any of us will look back in our lives, and regret the things we didn t buy? (camera shutters) or the places we didn t .
Against us to start moving nuclear weapons goes into nato territory, creating this tension within the alliance. i am sure that that always ends well, right? that is certainly always ending in peace and stability for everyone involved. well, and that s oh, please. that is the other element involved here. at the united states and many of our allies believe nuclear weapons to be stabilizing. what we are seeing is a fully armed nuclear country using nuclear weapons as a shield. and behind that shield it wants to undertake all manner of gray zone and conventional conflict to achieve strategic executives. nuclear weapons form a stalemate at the strategic level and we need countries able to use conventional weapons and other means below the surface. that is not a recipe for stability. that is a recipe for escalation, as ambassador daalder talked about before. we think we are smart about these things but they can get out of control quickly, in brandishing nuclear weapons on either si
He is no nearer there now than he was three weeks ago, but i think he s going to continue to try, which is one of the reasons i worry about potential escalation using unconventional weapons. ivo, daalder there. well, on the ground in ukraine, the port city of mariupol is still under intense russian bombardment. around 100,000 civilians are now trapped there without food, water or power. 0ur correspondent wyre davies has been speaking to a survivor of the attack on the city s theatre, where hundreds of civilians, including children, had been taking shelter. maria walked for four days to escape mariupol. without money, a car orfamily, she has nothing. she s the first known survivor of the mariupol theatre attack to speak about what happened. translation: the theatre was i completely packed with people. there was no space to lie down. people were just sitting. it was clear that this was