we are expecting this counter offensive to retake territory from the russian forces. 0ne offensive to retake territory from the russian forces. one of the points is notjust how much territory ukraine could take back from russian forces, but also we are told and aim to say, can they change minds in the kremlin, can that changed the strategic plans of president putin mocked the fear is that present putin thinks he can just wait this war out, he can see the distance, or wait for western fatigue to grow. what the western officials are saying they want this offensive notjust officials are saying they want this offensive not just to officials are saying they want this offensive notjust to retake territory, but to be successful and “p territory, but to be successful and up to make present putin realise he can t wait this out. new pictures have emerged of the fighting in bakhmut that s the city in the eastern donbas region which russian forces have been trying to capture for many months. t
cycle crystallized it for me, this is someone again, disagree or agree, is shaping the party jnonathan, given the fact we have acknowledged concerns over china have risen, where you stand on moscow, where you stand and view vladimir putin matters to a lot ofauot of voters and i wonder if you think maybe these remarks are getting viewed in moscow, does it give putin the reason to think maybe he doesn t have to drag this war out. maybe just wait until november 2024 oh, thing the words were very well received in the kremlin for that point if you re vladimir putin, we know he pays attention to american politics, and we know has meddled in american politics before, at least on occasion he sees right now the two leading contenders for republican nomination for
that, first of all. more than half the world is actually sitting this war out. if you count india, africa, latin america, most countries are actually trying not to get involved in this fight between the west and russia, as they see it. but, yes, to your broader point, i think that clearly china is trying to say we don t want an all out fight that would lead to years of warfare, an escalation beyond ukraine, an overthrow of the ukrainian government, further threats of nuclear weapons usage. china s basically saying, no, no, no to all of that. and i think china s instincts are correct. so we ll see where this can go. it s often easy to start a negotiation with broad principles that sound like apple pie and motherhood, and we don t want to get our hopes up too high. but china has said the right things today, and i m behind what they ve done. are there any particular areas that china has leverage over russia on?
now or decades now no longer are able to interact with china because we ve settled in to a new cold war. china doesn t want this whole situation to fall apart entirely, but it also wants to have putin s back. and so we better be realistic in our expectations. china s not switching sides. china is going to try to find a middle ground. i don t know if a middle ground really exists, but if there is one, i think beijing would like to find it as much as anybody else. xijinping and vladimir putin have made this promise that they have this no limits friendship. does that no limits stretch as far as china being honest with russia and saying, listen, half the world against you here, more than half the world s against you here? well, there are a lot of things to say about that. first of all, more than half the world is actually sitting this war out. if you count india, africa, latin america, most countries are actually trying not to get involved in this fight between the west and russia, as th
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