just security blog. here we are, a likely indictment is pending here. what s your takeaway from joe tacopina? i thought what was most curious or what he didn t talk about. he s talking about things that are not crimes or not the central crime. nobody would be charged for hush money. that s true, because paying hush money is not a crime. right. he wants to talk about the campaign finance charges and that is shakier, but the central charge that he will bring is falsifying business records that when they paid michael cohen they did not say that the payment was for its true purpose and it was legal services and that he was on retainer and that is what the central charge was a misdemeanor and everything builds off of that. just a misdemeanor on that and just to be clear. charges are charges and there are a lot of other cases out there, but a misdemeanor you re talking about a fine if convicted. if it all boils down to just that charge of a misdemeanor
uncomfortable when he starts attacking him by name there. he went, also, to talk about social security and medicare, drawing contrasts to ron desantis of course, bringing up ethanol, a major issue here among particularly republican farmers here in the state of iowa. when sitting in the back row of that theater where about 2,500 were packed in, it was very quiet and there was some fidgeting around as he went against ron desantis the reality for caucus-goers, they ll have ten more months of that ahead if ron desantis gets in the race and remains competitive against donald trump, it s only going to get worse. what about mike pence he didn t talk about mike pence on stage yesterday, but mike pence had pretty harsh words for the president at a private dinner the other day, saying he was responsible for january 6th and history will remember that did the president talk about mike pence off stage if so, why would he do it off stage and not on stage he s largely kind of straight
one of the scenarios we didn t talk about was whether a collapse of the russian army would lead to some sort of political implosion. once again, that must be a cherished hope for ukrainians and their supporters. we do know from the experience of libya and yugoslavia that indictment of gaddafi and milosevic gave them nothing to lose. they had to fight on. it s also true that it means the people around them have no interest in precipitating the collapse of that regime because they themselves might then end up on a plane to the hague, as it were, as well. do you think it s realistic, vitaly? i think it really must happen. you will remember, victoria, when ukrainecast interviewed numerous victims of such atrocities, people who have witnessed them first hand. and we ask them, why do you think people of this day and age, why do they to this to each other? they said impunity.
when it comes to leadership, one of the scenarios we didn t talk about was whether a collapse of the russian army would lead to some sort of political implosion. once again, that must be a cherished hope for ukrainians and their supporters. we do know from the experience of libya and yugoslavia that indictment of gaddafi and milosevic gave them nothing to lose. they had to fight on. it s also true that it means the people around them have no interest in precipitating the collapse of that regime because they themselves might then end up on a plane to the hague, as it were, as well. do you think it s realistic, vitaly? i think it really must happen. you will remember, victoria, when ukrainecast interviewed numerous victims of such atrocities, people who have witnessed them first hand. and we ask them, why do you think people of this day and age, why do they
and i suspect there are many people here in this room who will absolutely relate to that. thank you, marianna. how realistic is it, do you think, that president putin or his military commanders may face some kind of tribunal in the future? well, i certainly don t think we should think it s impossible. i mean, people thought it was impossible in yugoslavia when when the conflict was going on there in the nineties. was going on there in the 905. and it did eventually happen. you know, slobodan milosevic, for example, himself, ended up in the hague. so, getting hold of people, clearly some of the soldiers responsible for the crimes north of kyiv were captured and have been put on trial. when it comes to leadership, one of the scenarios we didn t talk