raton, florida. brit hume. the thing that happened today the economic powers threw russia out. they are out. so now it s the g-7. at least something happened. do you believe that president obama will be able to lead the world against putin? well, we will see. it s worth noting, however, they didn t throw russia out permanently. what the seven countries said was that we re not going to have the plan g-8 summit in sochi, russia. we are going to meet without russia in brussels in june as the g-7. but, the word was passed through reporters that this is a suspension, not an expulsion and it throws the spotlight on one unmistakable fact about this whole situation as the president tries to rally allies and so forth. it is possible to sanction russia economically in a way that it didn t used to be because it s economy is intertwined with the west. that cuts both ways. countries like germany and
will be effective in any way? reporter: well, they did say that they feel that russia cares deeply about its standing on the world stage, about its image, especially russian president vladimir putin, that he really wanted to put on something of a show by hosting the g-8 summit this summer in sochi, russia, not long after, of course, the olympics were held there. so, by taking this away from the russians, essentially kicking them out of the g-8, because g-7 leaders are going to meet on their own, they feel like this is one more step in, as the administration has put it, isolating russia. they ve said repeatedly that russia is completely alone in the world in viewing its takeover of crimea as legitimate, viewing that referendum that it held there as legitimate and that other western nations don t recognize this. in fact, the question was asked yesterday after the decision was made to just hold the g-7 alone, is crimea lost? is it gone? can we see it as belonging to
raton, florida. brit hume. the thing that happened today the economic powers threw russia out. they are out. so now it s the g-7. at least something happened. do you believe that president obama will be able to lead the world against putin? well, we will see. it s worth noting, however, they didn t throw russia out permanently. what the seven countries said was that we re not going to have the plan g-8 summit in sochi, russia. we are going to meet without russia in brussels in june as the g-7. but, the word was passed through reporters that this is a suspension, not an expulsion and it throws the spotlight on one unmistakable fact about this whole situation as the president tries to rally allies and so forth. it is possible to sanction russia economically in a way that it didn t used to be because it s economy is intertwined with the west. that cuts both ways.
options to try and shape events to keep rush is a from mosia fr. for instance, wokking with allies around the world to develop sanctions. communicating those to russia very, very clearly. at the same time saying, look, we re got going to interfere with your base in sevastopol or influence in kiev. mitt romney would have told putin there would have been sanctions if invaded ukraine. that s his big idea. a sanctions warning. that appears to be. president obama, of course, did put sanctions on russia. today along with allies in g-7 threatened further sanction and canceled plans to attend the g-8 summit in russia later this year effectively kicking russia out of the . 8 g-8. if you take away the critique of the max mallism what exactly romney would like us to do differently. government is finding ways to deal with messy and difficult real world situation. no matter mitt romney and john mccain and sarah palin want to pretend otherwise, tough talk
allies around the world to develop sanctions. communicating those to russia very, very clearly. at the same time saying, look, we re got going to interfere with your base in sevastopol or influence in kiev. mitt romney would have told putin there would have been sanctions if invaded ukraine. that s his big idea. a sanctions warning. that appears to be. president obama, of course, did put sanctions on russia. today along with allies in g-7 threatened further sanction and canceled plans to attend the g-8 summit in russia later this year effectively kicking russia out of the g-8. if you take away the critique of the maximalism what exactly romney would like us to do differently. government is finding ways to deal with messy and difficult real world situation. no matter mitt romney and john mccain and sarah palin want to pretend otherwise, tough talk and posturing are not sources of american geopolitical strength and not the way out of this crisis. so next time around, maybe skip