in 2014 and we ve just withdrawn from afghanistan. biden may be sincere but it is still questionable whether putin believes him. if you were advising president biden, what would you tell him to do? you re asking what i would do on the 21st move of a chess game when i think the moves were a mistake. i don t think we have deterrence. i think we re approaching this as if we re in a crisis situation right now. on friday, the biden administration told european that s the invasion could come within the next nine days and pointed to tomorrow as the most likely day. today biden said in the coming days and weeks. so i think there s another potential damage to credibility because of hyping the timing of the invasion. there s no question what russia s capabilities are. when putin says doesn t want war, you know, he means it. he wants it for free. and he s going to see if he can get it through diplomacy with what i think is the weakest link
russia. overall messaging is that russia doesn t want war. it has no intention of attacking ukraine. but there is kind of a caveat. but if there is a reason, if we, or more specifically, our compatriots who live in that eastern part of ukraine, the russian speakers and the donbas region. president putin years ago made the case for protecting russian speakers wherever they may be. and so he s laid the case. he s actually, i would say, a legal case to protect those people. so i think what they would set up now is that if they are attacked, we have a sacred duty to protect them. that would mean they could go in and protect. that s kind of i think what s going on. up with of the complications here is that you know, in all of these diplomatic discussions with the united states, nato,
of 21 at the time the visa is issu issued. many would apply for vivas well before the children are 21. at that point, mom and dad have to choose do we stay in afghanistan to keep our family whole or get the kids under 21 out and hope our adult children can make their way to america in is something that advocates have been asking the government to address for years and what i m thankful now is that congress has finally passed the afghan war commission. in light of the testimony before the congress back then, and congress listened to veteraned this time, they listened to the fact that we want accountability for the last 20 years from the war. we want to learn from our mistakes, and we want to make sure they are never repeated
call 833-317-4673, this stuff is super creamy. the boomstick glimmer, it just feels special. it is a nice shimmer. i look like me, but i ve got a glow. russian president vladimir putin speaking at a four-hour end of the year press conference in moscow today saying he does not want a war with ukraine. translator: everybody is saying well, a war is in the offing, and everybody is warning us against interfering. and threatening with sanctions.
he hasn t decided whether he s actually going to use military force, and the fact that he talked about the diplomatic initiative, the talks that are going to start in early january, reinforces my sense that war by no means is inevitable. i think he s essentially seeing how much can he get for the threat he s posing? just going to war, even though he d obviously quote, unquote win it in the official days, weeks and months. at the end of the day it proves extraordinarily expensive given sanctions and given the kind of armed irregular forces, almost urban guerilla defense ukraine would ultimately mount. at the same time, how confident are you that the at the same time how confident are you a new government in germany will be as tough as angela merkel would have been given this coalition with the green party?