i think that there is a war of genocide being made against a country, and it brings home why the alliance was built, which is to keep europe whole, free and at peace. there is a silverlining to this horrific war. it s really a stronger sense of purpose. host: with the current summit going on with president biden there, one of the story to come out of that is the strengthening of nato s presence in europe.can you describe what will happen and what it does for the region? guest: yes, right now there will be about 40,000 nato troops under direct nato command in eastern europe. that number is going to go up to 300,000 at the conclusion at the summit. and there will be a new permanent u.s.-base in poland, with a rotation of troops in romania and the baltic states. and and all of these countries you will have a wider coalition of nato countries stationed to fend off russian aggression. so i think for a number of years, people in that part of the world had been aware of the risks of
good afternoon, everyone. thank you. have a seat, please sit down. in case someone else walks in the room. thank you very much for taking the time to be here. i think we can all agree that this is been a historic nato summit. some of the folks who have been company for a while, but buu half ago when the first g-7 meeting took place in england, i talked about the need for us to reconsider the makeup of nato, how it functions, and come up with a different strategy strategy for nato and how we work together. and in addition to that we also talked about the g7 taking on additional responsibilities. before the war started i told putin that if he invaded ukraine, made would not only get stronger but would get more united. and we would see democracies of the world stand up and oppose his aggression and defend the rule of base order. that s exactly what we are seeing today. this summit was about strengthening our alliance, meeting the challenges of our world as it is today, and the
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from the hudson institute, this is just under one hour. good afternoon, i am mike durand of the hudson institute and i m joined today by might stay was college, brian clark, l schneider and peter, all who are senior fellows at the institute. we are here to talk about breaking the blockade on ukraine . breaking the naval blockade. i think to get started i will return to l schneider and ask him bill schneider and asked him to describe the scale of the problem we face right now. can you help us out? bill: thanks, mike. this is a classic come medieval dimension of this campaign. there are roughly 49 million people, according to most recent estimates, that faced starvation as a consequence of their inability to access the grain that is normally shipped from ukraine in the middle east and africa. the russians seek to leverage their ability to blockade the ports on the black sea coast to compel the eu and the u.s. and its allies to abandon the sanctions that have imposed on the
this is a classic come medieval dimension of this campaign. there are roughly 49 million people, according to most recent estimates, that faced starvation as a consequence of their inability to access the grain that is normally shipped from ukraine in the middle east and africa. the russians seek to leverage their ability to blockade the ports on the black sea coast to compel the eu and the u.s. and its allies to abandon the sanctions that have imposed on the russian economy. despite the non-favorable response to russia s respect, they are helping themselves to the ukrainian green. they have brought in supply ships to the sea from the internal canal network of russia and have moved the grain to favor russian allies such as syria. it is a combination of theft and an effort to extract a settlement from the u.s. and its allies. the russians have a formidable capability in the black sea fleet, even though the convention prevents them from augmenting that fleet very much. the divi