approach to ukraine? no, obviously not. i sent out a letter in october, todd that encouraged and urged the president to send lethal aid to the ukraine then to act as deter sxent show russians we were intent on helping ukraine if at all possible. he dragged his ft. it is inexplicable as to why. one thing about president trump you can point to, that is fact, the russians were not rattling their savor when trump was in the white house. 2008, they stole two provinces in georgia, they stole thecrimea. the russians feared president trump. todd: from a border that the biden administration wants to, republican lawmakers sending a letter to dhs secretary mayorkis
places? well, i think they re trying to show that they re not alone. to a large sxent one of the challenges for the putins of the world, even china, has been the sense that they re maybe isolated. and what they re doing is sending the signal no, we re not isolated. we are you know, we have friends, we have allies. it is not as convincing, particularly in the case of putin, as it is in the case of the chinese. china is a very different power than russia. china is a rising power. it has enormous, broad economic, technological sophistication. russia is fundamentally a declining power, and it can be a spoiler in places like ukraine. but it doesn t have countries clamoring from all over the world to do business with it. so the chinese are exercising what is in fact true, which is that for large numbers of countries around the world they re very important. they re the most important
it s terrifying to think about, we forfeited significant opportunity of posterring in a way that could have served as deter sxent provided diplomatic solution. when you have commander-in-chief who tells opposition what the u.s. will and won t do, it creates a val over an avenue of peace and emboldens the opposition. putin was saying i ll send our delegates to conduct the fruitless negotiations, but i m going to do what i m going to do, because he s been provided information from biden there will be no significant repercussions. i don t think he anticipated neutral countries within nato taking such strong position in reformation to foreign policy, particularly germany. i think they bolstered their