oh speaking to someone today in warsaw avenue told me it would be better if they did not send anything at all at such an embarrassment. no one has lost more credibility in this crisis in germany. it s even worse in just sending helmets, paul. i ve also blocked arms exports from other countries that are willing to step up and prevented them from sending weapons ukrainians do not want nato to fight on their behalf. i ve been to the front i ve talked ukrainian soldiers before they just want to defend themselves it s all they re asking for. germany is only making it harder in emboldening putin. why, adam what s going on there in berlin? there is a mixture among the part of the german society there is a genuine affinity for russia per there is a fear of russia as well. they have embedded their economies deeply paired someone told me the german idea was will change russia by doing business with them for it but what ended up happening russia changed germany than the other way around.
threat to american citizens in ukraine as well as our nato allies and ukraine itself. so there are certain powers that are vested within the presidency, vested within the commander-in-chief, and that is what i think is necessary in order to keep our nation safe and quite frankly to keep the confidence of our allies strong. aaron, a lot of people in washington, and i imagine elsewhere around the country, simply feel like what does this have to do with me? does it help the guy in ames, iowa? why are we over there? in particular, why are we endearing dangering american forces where the border between ukraine and russia appears to be a problem just between russia and ukraine. there are a couple of points i would make on why this matters. one, it matters because you re looking at an administration that s not been strong when it comes to national security and national security policies, especially when it comes to emboldening putin and russia and
stream two had anything to do with emboldening putin? no, it s not just to build a pipeline, putin wants to constitute the former socialist republics. what we need to do n.a.t.o. needs to be united in shoring up the defenses. what n.a.t.o. has begun to do, get weapons to the ukrainians and helping them defend against it and being prepared to put the sanctions in place that are going to be an economically devastating impact on putin. one. things that s happened in the last couple weeks, putin really didn t expect this big of a united international condemnation of his massing of these troops on the border. i think he hoped to get away with just a little bit of criticism so that he could do
what is your sense as we look now perilously, perhaps, at the next 24, 48, 72 hours? yeah, this has been an administration mired by geo political disaster after disaster. look at afghanistan. it was only a matter of time until the media came around to reporting the facts that joe biden has been weak when it has come to geo political politics here. he has emboldened putin. they went as far as going out and saying the pipeline was pretty much done even though sanctions had stopped it up to that point. the nord stream 2 pipeline empowers russia to circumvent ukraine and destroying their gas structure altogether to give energy to other countries. when you see that and see a president not standing and putting forward congressionally mandated sanctions that were working and emboldening putin, of course you ll see the media eventually a limited fashion
for him and his cabinet to go. ii u president putin responsible for this catastrophic human tragedy, the liberal democrats join all sides to stand in solidarity with the people of ukraine and i thank the prime ministerfor his of ukraine and i thank the prime minister for his statement. today must be a wake up call, the west has been too complacent over putin s that for too long. we have taken for granted ourfragile that for too long. we have taken for granted our fragile alliances so crucial for the defence of freedom, emboldening putin, this outrageous act of aggression. the west cannot be complacent any longer. so will the government reversed its proposed troop cuts to the british army and offer far greater military support to our nato allies in eastern europe? mr speaker, putin must face the most punitive sanctions, the world must isolate russia like the rogue state it is, including the state backed oil giants, 20% owned by bp. so will the prime minister committed to banning uk inve