significant victory, at least a significant symbolic victory for the ukrainians, right? oh, i think so, gillian. i mean, we all remember from the very, very early days of the war when the brave ukrainians on snake island had some pretty colorful language for the russians that were trying to get them to surrender, and i think general keane is 100% absolutely correct, russians should be dominating the fight. but the fact they are still taking losses and we are in day 100 plus of a three-day war shows you the ukrainians actually can win. despite this, though, a lot of foreign policy analysts have been telling us this week and last week that putin appears to be, have somewhat of an attitude adjustment, they said he s appearing confident in his military performance, he s appearing confident he has regained the trust of the russian people. what do you read into that, if
the east coast, 2:30 out west, and just before 11:30 a.m. here in austria. here the show is entitled appropriately timed with jonathan lemire. president biden and g-7 leaders are launching a new initiative to help finance the infrastructure projects and aiming to raise $200 billion in government and private sector funding over the next five years to counter a similar effort by china. for nearly a deck, beijing has been investing heavily in building up the infrastructure of developing countries in africa and asia, with chinese banks financing everything from new sea ports to 5g wireless networks through the belt and road initiative. foreign policy analysts say that has created a financial dependence between those countries and china that could be strategically important for bai beijing economically and militarily. the u.s. will have to make the program more attractive to countries but arguing it will directly include their economies without putting them in debt
cold-blooded murder and their use of common vulgarity to describe what they needed to shoot down unarmed civilians. frankly this is not cajonys, it s cowardice. she was a diplomat and a plain spoken woman. another thing that characterized her leadership was her determination to talk to americans about why it mattered to stand up to cuba to, stand up to russia, to stand up for american values. she kept that very much in her mind. she was a foreign policy analysts with an understanding of american politics that served her well in trying to make her case to americans in general and
lavrov is not in president putin s inner circle. now the question is, what is president putin planning to do? we know what he thinks. we know what he can do, what his capability is. what is he planning to do? that is a duffle question because as we have said many times, president putin doesn t use cell phones easily accessible. doesn t use e-mail. does he that deliberately. he talks on secure lines to that small group of hard line visors. so what does president putin plan? he plans to wait and see how things pan out or perhaps all of these forces on the borders have a purpose and just in the coming days. yeah. understood. really appreciate the perspective and the reporting. as you said, the honesty as we deal with all of this. to both of our colleagues here, matt and keir, thank you. i bounce back to our foreign
to watch as training exercises were held in norway and foreign policy analysts tell fox they believe deploying more nato and u.s. troops to the region will send a strong message to moscow. fortunately for us russia has proved time and time again that they respond with escalation to weakness rather than strength. we ve heard from the nato secretary general saying they will be able to bolster defenses in many parts across nato. when it comes to specific and additional troop deployments it will be a few weeks away when they meet in madrid. we ve added u.s. troops to europe. 100,000 service members there now. more than we ve seen in recent decades. live for us in the pentagon. mark, thank you. dana: dan hoffman former c.i.a. chief of station. one month since this all began and we want to get your assessment. something the wall street journal pointed out today in