he basically just outright called this hostage situation. do you agree with that? yeah absolutely. i think that it s ah. the wrongful detention as equivalent to taking a hostage. they ve clearly done this for political purposes to gain some kind of leverage over the united states or make make an example out of them to make a point. maybe it s like a revenge thing . after you were released, you gave an interview with my colleague jake tapper. and you talked about essentially the way you were treated that the russian government isn t just operating from the top down, you said. speaking of them quote, absolutely no value of human life. you said that apathy permeates every level of russian government. everyone who works for the government has absolutely no empathy. for other humans. do you worry that that treatment the way they treated? you has only gotten worse the way they re treating americans
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mercenaries, sensor fighters, and troops that were re-deployed from georgia and elsewhere previously bolstering the russian force. while putin is yet to call for a mass troop organization, probably because that would be wildly unpopular, remember that this was supposed to be a 72-hour invasion. this is not going unnoticed inside russia. parliament set to end the upper age limit for first time in military synapse. so that older man can sign up. ukraine s defense ministry says the russian has actually run out of combat ready forces, it is currently conducting a, quote, covert mobilization of new converts. they are untrained and are being sent directly into the fighting. as the north of the critical threats protect till s foreign policy, marcia it is, quote, literally scraping every barrels bottom that they can possibly find to round up troops. and quote, the wheels are sort of coming off the russian army. indeed, russia s losses are so great it remains to be seen if
although joe biden has not verbalized this. china has still received the message. even before president biden departed washington for south korea, on thursday, china s top diplomat issued a warning during a call with white house national security adviser jake sullivan. we ll, if the u.s. side persists in playing the taiwan card, then goes further down the wrong path, it will surely but the situation in serious jeopardy. and quote. one is the taiwan card? why does the united states have anything to do with it? back in 1949, when the chinese civil war ended, the communist took control of the mainland, while the losing side, the nationalists, were treated to the island of taiwan. located roughly hundred miles off the eastern coast of the mainland. initially, many countries developed a relationship with taiwan, which china has never recognized as a country. including the united states, which had never seen taiwan until the 1970s. but as china grew in power and developed new relations with
familiar, or money you the situation between ukraine and russia, you are not far off because there are close parallels between them. china recognizes those similarities to. back in march, china s vice foreign minister invoked the war in ukraine with this warning, saying quote, to pursue the indo-pacific strategy is as dangerous as doing the nato strategy of eastward expansion in europe. and quote. parroting vladimir putin s terms. if china does attack taiwan, however, biden has said that the u.s. would be willing to intervene. during a town hall last october just a couple of weeks after she jinping made his comments about reunification, biden said yes, america has made a commitment to protect taiwan. there is no doubt that china s been carefully watching what s transpired between russia and eastern europe and all of the countries that rallied against russia, which remains an ally of china. and perhaps troubling for china, it was not just western countries that came to ukraine s aid. in