the british foreign office announced yesterday that it has information that russia is looking to install a pro-russian leader in kyiv, the ukrainian capital. russia called the report misinformation and said the foreign office should stop engaging in provocations. david miliband used to run the british foreign office when he was foreign secretary, today he is president and ceo of the international rescue committee. anne applebaum is a pulitzer prize winning historian and staff writer at the atlantic. she is the author of red famine: stalin s war on ukraine. richard haass served as director of policy planning in the state department. richard, what the west and united states principally is trying to do is clearly some mixture of deterrents to keep the russians at bay and diplomacy. do you think the biden administration is getting this balance right?
was foreign secretary, today he is president and ceo of the international rescue committee. anne applebaum is a pulitzer prize winning historian and staff writer at the atlantic. she is the author of red famine: stallen s war on ukraine. richard haass served as director of policy planning in the state department. richard, what the west and united states principally is trying to do is clearly some mixture of deterrents to keep the russians at bay and diplomacy. do you think the biden administration is getting this balance right? with the exception of the press conference this past week, fareed, i would say yes, what they ve done is essentially said if you go in there will be an economic price to pay. second of all, we will give ukraine the means not to stop your invasion, but to raise the costs of it and certainly to raise the costs of any subsequent occupation.
the french ambassador philip etienne who you saw on gps last week, announced his return to washington on twitter on thursday. he had been called back after a new security pact with the uk and australia. the anglo alliance to be a check of china s burgeoning power and effectiveness. now is the u.s. finally pivoting to asia? let me introduce today s all-star panel. richard haass is the president of the council on foreign relations, former director of policy planning at the state department. anne-marie slaughter held that same position and is the author of think tank america, author of renewal, from crisis to transformation in our lives, work and politics. ian bremmer is president of the
philippe etienne, as you saw last week, announced his return to washington on twitter on thursday. he had been called back after a new security pact with the uk and australia. the anglo alliance to be a check of china s burgeoning power. now is the u.s. finally pivoting to asia? let me introduce today s all-star panel. richard haass is the president on the council on foreign relations, former director of policy planning at the state department. anne-marie slaughter held that same position. he s now the ceo of the think tank new america. she s the author of an absolutely terrific new book renewal: from crisis to transformation in our lives, work and politics. and ian bremmer is president of the euro-asia group, a geopolitical risk firm. anne-marie, let me start with you. you have a new book out about
affairs about the similar tarties between trump and president biden s middle east policy. i have written about the same thing. and i want to talk about afghanistan, if you consider that the greater middle east, not going into the iran deal, do you think there is kind of a similarity and strategy because what i wonder about is trump was doing this out of conviction. is biden doing this more out of political necessity? he feels like if he tries to go back into the iran deal, it will trigger a firestorm on the right. if he tries to fire a trigger policy on cuba, will it anger senator mendez, who he needs on these domestic priorities. is that a comparison that s fair to make? i think as all inconsistent. the president is focused domestically. he s obviously thinking about