based on that other invasions in the future maybe later this year. bret fred, you think sanctions earlier like there was an effort to sanction russia back in january that was that would have changed that moment. i don t. putin was sanctioned after he invaded in 2014. i think these autocrats are more or less immune to economic pressure. he has a relationship with china. a country like this that is not a democracy. is he going to let his people suffer so he can achieve his foreign policy goals. is he not going to payed price that you would in a democracy when heavy sanctions are really punishing the people. bret: jen, let me just finish with this. the administration is clear to say that u.s. troops are not going to be engaged in ukraine. u.s. troops are suring up nato forces in countries around there. and they re clear about that. but you listened to putin this afternoon. what did you hear?
to project and trigger article 5. let s not give him a reason to do so while giving him all the stingers and javelins they need. ukrainian air defense assets right there fired on our screen that s a good thing. ainsley: what countries would come after our western allies would come after america if we did provide those planes? pete: we have already pushed russia into the hands of china. we already created an axis. one of our stated foreign policy goals for the longest time was to keep russia out of an alliance with china. we have burned them closer together at this point, which is not good for the west if we are looking to defend our. stand up to china like we should stand up to china they have to go elsewhere. can t continue to allow china outlaw behavior. the other thing to keep in mind, too. the only thing to add to your argument is that vladimir putin is not playing by western rules. every time we back, put our hand out. think about being coy or being
russians, vladimir putin wanting us to rescind any discussion of nato inclusion for ukraine and georgia, as a matter of fact, and that there s not an unequivocal that invasion won t be rescinded, does that surprise you? no, it doesn t surprise me. secretary pompeo laid out the context right when mike and i were in office, the russians had two very primary foreign policy goals. one was to get a clean extension of the new start nuclear treaty that they didn t have to to anything, they could violate the treaty and build up arms and the other is to have nord stream 2 completed. we stopped that in the trump administration. they were given in exchange for nothing. the tools that we had, those chips are now off the table and vladimir putin has massed troops on the border and now has a new
global stage, talking about how wealthy countries can help developing countries with their infrastructure, aiming to encourage them to look to the west for help instead of to china. you see the president juggling climate and foreign policy goals as he finishes out his day here in scotland. we will have a few more meetings before his final news conference at the end of the day. he ll then get on air force one and head right back to washington. josh, thank you. back here in washington, house democrats just left a closed-door meeting and they talked about the next steps in passing the president s build back better spending plan and infrastructure bill. this is what speaker pelosi told reporters about lingering issues as the meeting ended. listen very closely, because it s quick.
foreign policy goals. it was in tone so different from what we heard during the four years of the trump administration that i m sure people welcomed that. the problem as we have been noting is with execution in biden foreign policy and i think our european allies, asian allies want to see clearer, better planned, more consultation in the process roll out of the foreign policy. france is a perfect example of all that. i thought all of the words were right, what europe is waiting for, asia is waiting for, to see how the biden team executes. so interesting that without mentioning china by name, not once, there was so much about china in the substance of the speech about going forward. andrea, china is the sub techs for everything that