politics. there are people to his right, much more fervent nationalists, and there are some pro-russian factions, although the one thing i would point out, you know, we ve been talking about how putin s executive actionings have had the reverse consequence in terms of strengthening nato unity and strengthening that u.s. presence in eastern europe. the other thing that s happened is that putin s aggression against ukraine has consolidated support inside of ukraine and moved in the direction of the european union to move to the direction of nato. the you looked at ukrainian public support for nato membership before 2014, before the annexation of crimea, it was very, very low. it has skyrocketed since russia annexed crimea and moved into those eastern regions. yes, zelensky is in the top political spot. if there s an invasion, they could try to overtly top it will government. but one thing that is a factor that has to be recognized by putin, his own actions have
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preparing for russian missiles and bombs. that s something we have been hearing about for several weeks now as the possible way sort of an opening salvo of the military might into ukraine if this does happen, some sort of an invasion, is that it would most like i start from the air. there s a lot of emphasis on russian military, mechanized units, ground units, tanks, that are surrounding the border right now. but what we ve been hearing is addition to the potential false flags, cyber operations, electronic warfare or jamming, the opening salvo would most likely be from the air. richard engel, take us on the ground today in ukraine. we ve got first of all, there s been a couple developments. the russians officially accused ukraine of some violations with the united nations.
i know a bunch of you are headed to munich for the security conference tonight. is that going to be enough to keep the lights on for the federal government? chuck, i think we re going to get there. we will pass this continuing resolution for a few weeks. the good news about it is i think we re now moving toward a breakthrough deal for the full appropriations bill, which will likely pass in march. that s a very good bill on priorities like national defense, you know, to have a credible deterrent threat against authoritarian nations like russia and china, the budgetlining up is going to be a strong one and we ll get this cr done. the sense of the senate on ukraine, does it look a little bit empty if there isn t an agreement on the sanctions bill itself? chuck, let me tell you what there is agreement on and the one area of dispute. we agree on what the sanctions package should be, and we agree
exactly whether vladimir putin is making the decision and when it could happen is because everything they re looking at at this point is somewhat circumstantial, right. so the reason that there s so much confidence that he is likely to invade is because of what they re seeing happen around the borders, the buildup of this personnel, of equipment, moving closer to ukraine, bringing in some very sophisticated equipment and weapons systems that vladimir putin wouldn t necessarily bring in just for an exercise or just because, putting himself at risk in other parts, like in the far east, but he s taken so much of his military from that area and moved it in here. so from that perspective, it is somewhat circumstantial, what he s deciding to do here, as opposed to having some kind of a real smoking gun, vladimir putin himself or someone saying we ve decided to invade on this day at this time. one thing antony blinken said that i found really interesting was when he talked about
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