Understanding as to whats at stake if ukraine is unable to push russia out of its country. We see russia mobilising, continuously mobilising, even though its not officially declared. We see them arming, we see them entering what is called a war economy, producing weapons, getting weapons from iran and north korea. And with the momentum on the battlefield in eastern ukraine. Exactly. And us faltering, stumbling. And whenever, you know, balts speak usually or, you know, the countries from the Eastern Flank would speak, its notjust because we feel that its morally right to defend ukraine, but we also take this as an existential question. That means that if russia is not stopped in ukraine, it will continue because a machine that size, its very difficult to stop and it needs to. It cannot be stopped with just, you know, well wishing. It has to be stopped by military means. Do you think americas eventual commitment of that 60 billion worth of aid and assistance to ukraine has been a game ch
We see russia mobilising, continuously mobilising, even though its not officially declared. We see them arming, we see them entering what is called a war economy, producing weapons, getting weapons from iran and north korea. And with the momentum on the battlefield in eastern ukraine. Exactly. And us faltering, stumbling. And whenever, you know, balts speak usually or, you know, the countries from the Eastern Flank would speak, its notjust because we feel that its morally right to defend ukraine, but we also take this as an existential question. That means that if russia is not stopped in ukraine, it will continue because a machine that size, its very difficult to stop and it needs to. It cannot be stopped with just, you know, well wishing. It has to be stopped by military means. Do you think americas eventual commitment of that 60 billion worth of aid and assistance to ukraine has been a game changer . Or do you fear that, still, the biden administration, even in the speed that it is
Russia out of its country. We see russia mobilising, continuously mobilising, even though its not officially declared. We see them arming, we see them entering what is called a war economy, producing weapons, getting weapons from iran and north korea. And with the momentum on the battlefield in eastern ukraine. Exactly. And us faltering, stumbling. And whenever, you know, balts speak usually or, you know, the countries from the Eastern Flank would speak, its notjust because we feel that its morally right to defend ukraine, but we also take this as an existential question. That means that if russia is not stopped in ukraine, it will continue because a machine that size, its very difficult to stop and it needs to. It cannot be stopped with just, you know, well wishing. It has to be stopped by military means. Do you think americas eventual commitment of that 60 billion worth of aid and assistance to ukraine has been a game changer . Or do you fear that, still, the biden administration, ev
To push russia out of its country. We see russia mobilising, continuously mobilising, even though its not officially declared. We see them arming, we see them entering what is called a war economy, producing weapons, getting weapons from iran and north korea. And with the momentum on the battlefield in eastern ukraine. Exactly. And us faltering, stumbling. And whenever, you know, balts speak usually or, you know, the countries from the Eastern Flank would speak, its notjust because we feel that its morally right to defend ukraine, but we also take this as an existential question. That means that if russia is not stopped in ukraine, it will continue because a machine that size, its very difficult to stop and it needs to. It cannot be stopped with just, you know, well wishing. It has to be stopped by military means. Do you think americas eventual commitment of that 60 billion worth of aid and assistance to ukraine has been a game changer . Or do you fear that, still, the biden administra
He is also concerned about Economic Uncertainty triggered from the conflict between israel and hamas as the death toll continues to rise. The bbc s economics editor Faisal Islam Sat down with him and asked if the Global Economy was heading in the right direction. Well, things are going in the right direction. What we are seeing is, despite these large shocks that you describe, the World Economy is still standing. No global recession, you know, no massive slowdown that would put us into huge unemployment rates. We havent seen that. We have seen a surge in inflation, but inflation is sort of coming down now, both Headline Inflation and core inflation, so thats the good news, things are improving, the Global Economy has been resilient. At the same time, the Growth Numbers we have, around 3 this year, 2. 9 for next year, this is way below historical average. So the Global Economy is limping along, its not sprinting but its been resilient. Right. Do you from this point see there are areas w