attacks, economically destabilizes the country to some extent. so we ought to be prepared for a long haul crisis rather than for something sudden. the russians today submitted their 11-page written response to the u.s. after the u.s. sent their thoughts, their statements, to the russians. it took a weekend for the u.s. to reply to russia. russia took three weeks to come back with an answer. and it seems like it s just written statements of what was discussed in person. they have their demands. the u.s. is not going to meet them. any surprise here? what s the relevance of this paper traffic? there is no relevance. if diplomacy is going to work, it s not going to happen in formal written statement. it s going to happen because putin essentially tells us sergey lavrov, the foreign minister, to cut a deal and he ll give them certain parameters. this is theater to either
the russian forces are keen on it and they cannot believe the anti-propaganda and everything putin s putting out. they re very tough, strong military condition and the fight hard but the werther planning to is slow down and they have to re-hustle and make conditions. the mark hadley that will take some of the momentum and i expect ukrainians will fight as long as necessary and i hope that we are able to help with intelligence and everything that we can do, clandestinely and overtly the help russia a flight off and help fight off russia. you ve got to did die putin. when the president sends 7,000 more troops to germany to reinforce the nato structure there, we do you believe their obligations are? do they sit and wait for some odd chance that the war spills over into a nato country?
different, a very european city and it said that the sentiments he has since the russian invasion of 2014 have become much more european, much more desirous ofjoining nato so, yes, it would be really, really tough to hold it which is why there is a worry about street fighting, an insurgency, why there has been talk from the united states of trying to arm the sense of urgency, support this insurgency if it comes to that, but when we have had all those intelligence reports leading up to this invasion, which warned about an all out assault, one of the predictions was of the top priorities for president putin s war is to topple the government and put in a pro russian leadership. mani; in a pro-russian leadership. many thanks. in a pro-russian leadership. many thanrs- we in a pro-russian leadership. many thanrs- we got in a pro-russian leadership. many thanks. we got to in a pro-russian leadership. many thanks. we got to talk in a pro-russian leadership. many thanks. we got to talk t
my advice for the administration would be to turn the other cheek, let this happen. we ve got bigger concerns right now than immediate reciprocity. richard, what about your other advice to the administration? is there still diplomacy to be had here at this hour? short answer is you keep trying but it takes two to tango. we ll see whether mr. putin is interested. my advice more broadly most of what the administration has done, and i think it s been effective, has been to prepare for a large-scale invasion. what i think now is they have to spend a lot of time working on two other scenarios. one is something much more focused, something in eastern ukraine where the russians go in on behalf of those living there. and secondly we ought to be prepared for the scenario where what we re now seeing continues for days, weeks or months, where tens of thousands of russian troops are parked outside ukraine, intermittent cyber
wants. he doesn t care about russian people at this point. we need sanctions, military aid and feel confident we will not become or be a buffer state, that is not our identity. todd: you say the world should be worried if putin takes ukraine, he won t stop there. explain the threat you folks experience and rest of the wofrld should wake up to? everything putin and russia touches becomes corrupt immediately, media, politicians, here and abroad. it is not about military invasion of any country. we can expect anything. it it is more how entire security architecture of the world is threatened by this person. everybody should take care of that. there is reason why putin in his speech yesterday made claims, it is not ukraine part of russia, it is not a real country, it is