Biggest refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War continues with about five million Ukrainian refugees. UK only allowed in 12,000. Sanwar Ali reports.
The second charge related to NATO s alleged rush to included Ukraine, or what [Professor John] Mearsheimer calls "reckless expansion", provoked Putin is equally absurd. For almost two decades, Russia made no objection to NATO enlargement that included
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vladimir putin saw very quickly your point about climate change. atthe first senior american to visit with vladimir putin in the bush administration with secretary kerry, notot the secretary of state but the climate czar. i thinke czar. that sent a realp message to putin and i thinkhe we re seeing the results of that today. i thought it was humiliating and embarrassing with joe basically begging w putin to lel let s meet. there s still time we canly have discussions that diplomacy can still work, et cetera, et cetera. why are c you begging a guy that s lined up one hundred and fifty plus thousand troops to invade a sovereign country, by the way? and i m no fan of ukraine. when i look at ukraine, i see pretty much corruption t everywhere and i seehe the same thing with the hostile regime i in russia under putin. so i don t think it s america s role. but i i do think that he has mae a strategic mistake by not supplying our allies in westernn europe considering we have more natural resour
and by t abandoning energy independence, he is now pushingn our allies right into putin s arms. hasni? yes,s, this is an easy one . we have cheap, affordable s energy here at home and we haved the capacity to ship but did a really good cost to ourro european friends and allies. we should we should bee crushing the russians with us. bute you know, the same time we re having this conversation with the russians in europe, we re sitting on the same side of the table on the same side of the table with the russians in vienna talking about giving the iranians the very same capacity to ship their product, their crude oil, their natural gas around the worldir. or this is an enormous sign of weakness. this is a failure of american foreign policy in the fundamental deterrence sense that reagand had and that we had for our four years. i saw this up close and personal with sergei lavrov will eat our secretary of state for lunch iff we don t demonstrate american resolve in the capacity and willingne