intelligence sharing and information. the ukrainian air force is really good, but i suspect that one of the things that s allowing them to survive is that they have much petter awareness of what is going on than they d normally have. go ahead. sorry. just to close, i wonder how much more in terms of economic how much is left? if this is going to be drawn out, as an opportunity to sanction russia in a way that they would perhaps feel it? so i think when we watch the ruble on a day-to-day basis, you know, it s actually stabilized at a much higher rate. but the sanctions that we are putting on are meant to really degrade, long term, medium and long term the russian economy. i think to the extent that you see not only the brain drain, the companies pulling out, but the expert controls actually starting to bite, you re going
conference call that president biden had with the chinese president xi jinping this morning. perhaps we ll get that when the white house briefing begins a short time from now. in this moment there is growing concern over whether china will step in and help russia in this fight. this is the most key moment. is china going to keep this alliance, this marriage of convenience with russia or are they going to look for a way to separate themselves from russia. this is a very, very key phone call. perhaps the most important phone call since this invasion has begun. but i want to also mention, you know, we forget that in that 1999 time frame the russian military came actually face-to-face with the 82nd airborne, u.s. military on the ground in kosovo. i was sent there as a correspondent for fox during the kosovo conflict and as the serbs were pulling out, and the russian military hop scotched over the u.s. military and
of a lot of them, it is not easy to extract themselves, for whatever reasons. then the impact this conflict is having on economies around the world. at this summit, you re going to have some additional sanctions announced and some coordination on sanctions, which is really, really important. you know, if you find acme, you know, company owned by an oligarch in one country, you can pass the baton from switzerland to monaco to a different one to actually try and track down more effectively the different assets. the economy in russia, the projections are starting to come out now that you re going to see, you know, a 15% hit to gdp next year. part of that is the brain drain that was referred to. part of it is that you ve seen a number of companies, like the boeing and airbus, the major oil
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