yet there fully nor is france. but this is an excellent job in diplomacy by the biden administration. i want to show you something, ben rhodes, that congressman maloney said on morning joe today that the president addressed the nation two days ago but not a lot of echo of democrats or republicans speaking directly to the american people and the word of what is possible at any moment. let me play that and talk about that on the other side. this is as serious as it gets. i hope people understand. this is a world war ii style invasion of a massive land area in central europe. tanks, ballistic missiles, air strikes. if they actually go for kyiv from belarus you talk about thousands of casualties, innocent people dying, huge
idea that the soviet union coming down in 1991 was a terrible thing. he s a kgb agent and he wants to go down in history along with peter the great. and to do that, he needs to expand the russian land area and influence and empire, and that s what he s doing. the fact that people are dying, it s all for his legacy, how people would think of him when he s dead. it s sick. i said earlier in a meeting he ought to have a vodka, some caviar, and chill. did president zelenskyy tell lawmakers on this call yesterday that he was worried this might be the last time you see him alive? i don t recall that. i think you know, i don t think he said that, no. i think i heard somewhere he said anybody who would say they would be concerned about possibly being killed, saying people want to kill you. i don t think he said that on the call.
also we have to consider that china s social media environment is very heavily state restricted, there s a lot of censorship, and you ve also got nationalists who are paid by the government to promote positive messages. prince charles has represented the queen this afternoon at the annual commonwealth day service at westminster abbey. it s the first time the queen has missed the event in almost a decade. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. it has been one of the abiding themes of her reign. the commonwealth of nations, representing nearly one third of the world s population, and a fifth of its land area. but now, after 70 years of the queen s reign, it s time for others to take the lead. the simple fact is that the long walk up the aisle of westminster abbey is too much for a monarch who is nearly 96. the congregation was transported to different commonwealth cultures. it was reminded of today s story taking place on the boundaries of this continent.
nicholas witchell reports. it has been one of the abiding themes of her reign. the commonwealth of nations, representing nearly one third of the world s population, and a fifth of its land area. but now, after 70 years of the queen s reign, it s time for others to take the lead. the simple fact is that the long walk up the aisle of westminster abbey is too much for a monarch who is nearly 96. the congregation was transported to different commonwealth cultures. it was reminded of today s story taking place on the boundaries of this continent. at least for the moment ukraine risks being pulverised. but above all, this was the commonwealth paying tribute to the person who today was absent, but who has done so much to keep it together.
it took him a while to get there. i think a savvy politician would have recognized months ago, years ago really that this was not happening in the west. maybe this proposition up and i feel a little bit somewhat duplicitous if we sort of dangled this carrot in front of them knowing that we were never going to provoke russia this way for zelenskyy to come to that opinion. i think now while it is late, i think more power to him and he has got to unify the country, keep them together and push back the russians in this critical point of the battle right now. so what s more important? you know, water under the bridge is how they survive this next two weeks. yeah. jason beardsley, great insight. always good to see you, sir. thank trace. back to my co-anchor jonathan hunt. i think that s the point. if in fact zelenskyy is jonathan willing to drop belonging to nato, then maybe it just comes down to land area . does is he willing to release any claim on the crimea on the you know, on these th