actually the initial debate around the impatient when it first started was whether the u.s. would impose a no-fly zone that would be dramatic escalation. and joe biden said he didn t want to start world war iii. he got a lot of credit for being sane and soberr minded. and the american public recognizing these implements of lesser escalation could mount and create something cataclysmic. tucker: i think you are right. where is this going? what is the point of it? how do we know if we have won? what are we paying for and who are we supporting? if i go to your house and feel morally smug we can feed the pivot point in history. people should be asking what you are asking, those questions but you are attacked for it but you continue anyway. michael tracy, thank you. thank you, tucker. tucker: biden was trying to tell you we are sanctioning oligarchs to punish wedemeyer put in. there is one oligarch
right i will say that we continue to offer whatever support that we can and together with our partners, we are going to ratchet up the economic pressure and we will continue to intensify week by week the sanctions on on russia. not just freezing assets in in banks and sanctioning oligarchs, but moving away from use of russian hydrocarbons and we will give you the support that you need, the economic support and, of course, the defensive military support in which i m proud to say that the uk helped to lead the way and just the other day we raised i think 1.5 billion pounds at a donor conference from friends, partners around the world. dozens and dozens of countries who now want to support ukraine. we want to live our lives trade
squeeze. will these measures have putin feeling the squeeze? i mean, there s two things, part of that question. one, there are also sanctions aimed at putin himself and that s really difficult to bring pressure on him because of the, you know so little is known about where his wealth is hidden. it s hard to reach. but i think that there s some skepticism also that putting pressure on oligarchs will have a tremendous impact on putin. his inner circle now is really just a very small group of former kgb, former military aides who are in his ear, who have any meaningful access to him, and you have heard the oligarchs say this. why are you coming after me? it s crazy to think that i have any influence with this guy. if i could stop this war, i would. i m not in position to do that. i think that broader, i mean, these are the important thing to keep in mind is that sanctioning oligarchs, of course, is just part of a huge, much, much bigger sanctions picture going after russian banks, g
on the battlefield such as the ukrainian army s ability to manoeuvre quickly, to manoeuvre advantageously, that means attacking the russians in the way they don t expect and anticipate. it could certainly make an important contribution. certainly make an important contribution. ., ., ~ ., contribution. doctor tom willington, it s been fascinating. contribution. doctor tom willington, it s been fascinating. thank- contribution. doctor tom willington, it s been fascinating. thank you - it s been fascinating. thank you very much indeed. we are going to speak to our correspondent nick urged lee, who is in westminster. nick eardley. we have breaking news concerning. when it comes to sanctioning oligarchs, i understand in the next few minutes, the uk government is going to confirm that two further oligarchs are being added to the
stories we have dealt with in the last few years, divisions on the tory bench, labour trying to carve out a tough on national security kind of thing, they have played out this week you have got tory backbenchers who are much more gung ho about a no fly zone, you have got keir starmer trying to outflank boris johnson when it comes to sanctioning oligarchs and actually that idea that there is a consensus about war and peace, that is just not true. except that i do think that there is a consensus on the broad approach. you do not have one party saying we should not be doing anything, or one party saying we should be putting boots on the ground, i think that there are differences and there are differences that are very obvious but i think there are differences of scale, scale and pace, if you like, rather than differences over the whole thing. you know, no one is having an argument saying, oh, we should not be helping, and no one is having an argument saying that we should be sending briti