What happens after the current regime . The soviet people with their antiwestern mindset still admire the west as consumers. The same phenomenon is observed in todays russia. They brandished their patriotic as rely on imports in almost every aspect of their daily area. Experience. Anyone who can afford to go abroad for shopping or were some tourism will do it. The population might welcome more engagement with the west. They have the hope of achieving a higher living standard. But it becomes too risky. Historical parallels become too risky. Painful memories of the interior crisise the ukrainian has reopened the old sores. It did not heal any wounds. The contrary was the case. Russia remains extremely fragile. This is not good news for anyone who wants to be democratic or peaceful. [applause] thank you very much. That was a professor from the university of tartu in estonia. Is annal speaker associate at harvard university. Thank you. Expertise is in military. I will start by talking abou
Helpful in terms of look at future . And a related question is you determined they were established because of the tremendous amount of resources that were being put into these twop countries. Is the role of the special Inspector Generals simply a kind of surge capability, or do you bring something to does a special Inspector General bring something greater to this effort than the igs of the particularly agencies of the gao . Okay. Let mel quickly on the proposal that stewart bohen had and then ill answer your question. The answer is yes to the last part of your request e. Ill go into more detail. Stewart did make that recommendation. Again, i gefr that i dont do policy, i do process. And so i dont really think its my position to recommend, and i havent been asked, to recommend creating or not creating an entity such as stewart recommended. I will say this. This helps to answer your second question. I got enough authority, enough power, enough resources to do the job. I like temporary
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Them some damage economically but we in doing so would damage ourselves and how do we strike that balance and how much pain are we willing to take and so on . And also, we have to try and begin to think through the russian reaction because, you know, if putin is in full great patriotic war mode one thing we know about the russians is they can take a great deal of privation when they feel National Interests are at stake. I dont think we can feel overconfident that these economic sanctions will with russia in internationalistic mode will change course but we have to try to do something. I think a lot of the reaction of the europe and u. S. Together will come down to personalities of leaders as it often does. I think it is potentially significant that the two most important leaders, obama and merkel, are both intrinsically quite people. You saw that in the libyan crisis when obama and merkel were both very reluctant to go for military intervention and that was driven by cameron and sarkoz
[inaudible conversations] and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, take you for being here today for the briefing. I have a couple of guests with me today. Susan rice and the National Security adviser that are here to give you a preview of the president s Upcoming Trip and then we will take questions on that trip. Then we will start with an overview of the schedule and ambassador price will provide a systematic overview then we will take questions on those topics areas. Then i will stick around for questions. I will start with the interview with the president over the course of the trip on sunday night in arrived on it a 8 00 in the morning said he will go to the museum where he will meet with the Prime Minister of the netherlands. They will then have the bilateral meeting there as well. Following that the president will go to the soviet side id have a bilateral meetings to initiate the meeting with trade and this is the first since the g20 in september and they could agree to this is