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along the entire spectrum of conflict. and the other thing is, i think a lot of us just didn t think that at this point the russians would have the temerity to go and do this. so we are here. timing wasn t right. and now we re in this. the ukrainians are in this awful fight. and we and the allies and the world are trying to support economically, politically, diplomatically, societally, to put the pressure on the russians you re seeing, because this is creating this is creating major problems for the russians internally. and if the ukrainians can hang out, can survive with this sort of almost anaconda effect of all these sanctions and measures, this may create problems in the kremlin. and again, the russians
church and attacked police. these people have been completely peaceful. and the the same people who criticized donald trump are applauding trudo for invoking the emergencies act and clearing protesters out from in front of parliament hill. what he is doing is far worse than anything donald trump did. is he not just clearing them out and arresting people. he is taking away their licenses and ability to pursue their livelihoods for the have the temerity to protest his policies. he is seizing bank accounts without a court order. shutting down the free speech rights of people who support the protesters which would be unconstitutional here. this is the stuff of authoritarian regime. bret: mollie? well, in the last couple of years we have seen across so many western democracies the outrageous stripping of civil liberties and freedoms and canada has been particularly bad. it seems that so many of these regimes feel that the people exist to support them rather than they, the people. bu
ukrainian government, the zelenskyy government. remember, his grievance really is you know, all of the historical stuff aside, is what the ukrainians had the temerity to do. the ukrainians had the temerity to get rid of their russian-backed government and choose a western-leaning government. that prompted putin in 2014 to seize crimea. that was his fit of pique then, or his lesson to the ukrainian people about what happens to people who do that sort of thing. this is his ultimate lesson. he doesn t want to abide this western-leaning government in ukraine. so i think it is absolutely right that the u.s. should be thinking now how to sustain the ukrainian government even in
infrastructure, oil and gas, water infrastructure, power infrastructure in ukraine itself. so you ll have attacks that are in support of russia s invasion to try to cause chaos and logistical problems for the ukrainian defense. then we might also see attacks against american businesses. and those attacks are probably going to be more subtle and will probably come in the form of what looks like ransomware attacks. it s this huge problem for companies already where their computers are hacked and then they re demanded a ransom to be paid for those computers to be unlocked. we have a history here of russia during other ukrainian crises utilizing what looks like ransomware to actually harm american and other businesses who have had the temerity to operate in ukraine and back the ukrainian government. let s go back to what happened this week in ukraine. tuesday, the attack, the largest denial of service attack in the country s history we re told. yes. how does this denial of