regarding their uncertainty in an increasingly stable middle east. the saudis were distressed after the attack on their oil facilities backed by yemen, the trump administration did practically nothing to retaliate. the ua faced a similar attack in january and was equally stressed that the biden administration was not more active in responding. there s a wage for washington to forge a new security umbrella in the region that includes israel, egypt and the gulf states. it would stabilize the community environment, foreclose the prospects of a nuclear arms race in the region and provide access to energy for the industrialized world. but that path would have to include making up with mohammad bin salman. i don t make this argument lightly. jamal khashoggi was my friend. in fact, when i visited saudi arabia in 2004, he was my companion and guide. i miss him dearly, even now. but the fact of the matter is mbs is likely to rule saudi arabia for the next 50 years. he is an absolute ruler like
response will be unified if russia invades ukraine. advising citizens in ukraine to get out, leave immediately. joining us now former national security counsel staffer under president bill clinton, jamie metzel. thank you for joining us. talking about this pipeline which is something that would hurt putin so much, it s sort of as i was trying to say well, john berman will lend you his car and john berman isn t committed to doing that. it s not my car, it s his. what is going on here? you heard the puzzlement of the reporter saying how would you this? this is germany s decision. it is germany s decision but united states provides most of germany s security. that s why russia doesn t have more leverage over germany and the eu because they all exist under the american security umbrella. we have a long relationship. so the germans at the end of the day won t risk that relationship by building their reliance on
satisfied with the minimum. there is a certain feeling in the kremlin that they can compel both ukraine and the united states and nato alliance to have their way. 0therwise, alliance to have their way. otherwise, they use at the threat of military invasion to change the situation and alter the positions at the negotiating table. that is why i think what putin once within ukraine, something that is not acceptable to the ukrainian president and populations, is ukraine being a grey no man s land where he de facto control policy and keeps ukraine hostage, rested on its way to economic development, to democracy, to having a security for its population. and more broadly, russia wants to have the us out of europe. russia wants to decouple that security umbrella that emerged after the second world war where the us has provided quite a lot of security within a nato on the
the situation and to alter the positions at the negotiating table. that is why i think what putin wants within ukraine, something that is not acceptable to ukrainian president and ukrainian populations, is ukraine being a gray no man s land where controls policy making and keeps ukraine hostage, arrested on its way to economic development, to democracy, to having a security for its populations. and then, more broadly, russia wants to have us out of europe. russia wants to decouple that security umbrella that emerged after the second world war, where the us provides quite a lot of security within nato on the european continent. just going back to the donbas issue. we mentioned the duma request about recognising it formally. i mean, that s been going on.
vladimir putin is doing is making more countries want to join nato. neutral countries like sweden, like finland, because the russians are really threatening their freedom of choice to join alliances. so the more threatening vladimir putin becomes, the more countries that want to seek the security umbrella of nato. so he s creating these conditions in 2014, the ukrainian constitution ensure that ukraine was a neutral country by annexing crimea, and invading them boss in 2014. those vladimir putin who forced the fenian government to changes constitution to want to be more closely aligned with nato. so again, moscow asked accepted strategic failures. the more it takes these actions, the more countries want to join nato. that was such a great, crystal clear explanation about why countries join, how they join. thank you for the. but now i want to get your reaction to the other thing the president zones is that over the weekend, arguing that,