The senate gavels in at 2 00 eastern for general speeches. At 5 30, senators will vote to move forward on district judge nominations for virginia, massachusetts and nevada. You can watch the house life on cspan live on cspan, the senate on cspan2. Deputy National Security adviser tony blinken talked about the u. S. And European Response to isolate russia after its intervention in ukraine. He talked about the effectiveness of the sanctions and why the annexation of crimea will eventually prove to be what he calls a strategic loser for russia in the long term. He spoke at a conference on europe hosted by the brookings institution. Its about 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, i hope youve had a chance to enjoy some lunch. It is, of course, a brookings sandwich lunch, so, you know, theres limits to the enjoyment, but nonetheless, we hope youve had a good lunch. Were extremely pleased to have tony blinken here to finish off and wrap up our annual conference for us today. Tony, unfortunately,
Get broader sanctions. And thenians seernational community crimea as lost, at least for the short term. I do not think we could afford to see effective occupation twoee de facto operation in inces inive provoin Eastern Ukraine. Whatever can be done to find moscow accountable would be very important. My second question. In much broader question about the future of nato and the future of article five protections. I agree europe will certainly react if there is a movement of troops across the border. The idea is that they are protected under the mutual defense covenant in nato, but russia is perfecting a new form of warfare in which they dont march troops across the border, in which they very slowly but methodically contest areas, gain control of areas with a range of tactics from intimidation to bribery to provocations to little green men with no russian uniforms. So this is a longerterm challenge for us. But is article v still a sufficient protection for countries along russias border .
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