actors playing mourners, that is dep ny national security adviser john finer speaking today with andrea mitchell here on msnbc, a truly surprising turn in the news today, when the biden administration put out this news that u.s. intelligence say they have learned of a plot by the russian government to fake something terrible in ukraine. now, as you know, russia has over 100,000 troops massed on the ukrainian border, menacing ukraine and threatening to invade for weeks now and u.s. intelligence has apparently uncovered evidence of an elaborate false flag operation that russia was apparently working on to fake some supposed atrocity to blame on the ukrainian government and justify russia invading. and as insane as that sounds, it is exactly the kind of thing russia has done in the past in ukraine. in july, 2014, a few mons after the last time putin invaded ukraine, russian state
we re all sort of waiting for his decision. is there anything else we can and should be doing? so the u.s. strategy has been interest so therefore give the russians no ability to act as if it s noshl. the problem with that strategy is that the russians aren t going to be embarrassed. and this is a government after all which was responsible for the shootdown of a civilian airliner in july 2014 over eastern ukraine, in which about 300 people were killed. it s a government that s put a military grade nerve agent in the underwear of the country s lead opposition figure. in both cases chase by. so that is not new. it not just that we ve seen so
mistake. in 2008 a ukrainian born tax investing alleged massive corruption by the russian government, he was thrown in jail while bush was president and died in prison not long after obama s infamous russian reset began. so willing to work with putin often despite nato s fears. remember the 2012 obama hot mic moment with putin s predecessor. i am more flexible. obama s flexibility was indeed transmitted to vladimir and two years later putin ordered the annexation of crimea and started a civil war in eastern ukraine, providing arms to separatists who in july 2014 used a russian missile system to shoot down malaysian airlines
worth of aid both in terms of lethal military aid and hu humanitarian assistance. today they offered 25 million australian aid and that is unmanned ariel support and they came back and asked for the bushmaster armored personnel carriers. australian design war vehicles that the australian army has used to great success in the afghan and iraq wars. they say it s going over these requests from ukraine and will do its best. of course, australia has been amenable to these requests so far and that s partly because of the closeness they all talked about today. prime minister scott morrison and president zelenskyy, they all talked about this closeness between the two countries. part of that is because of nh 17. you ll remember back in july 2014 when that aircraft was
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