i think the in-fighting shows it s not going well for the russians and casting around for people in their own system to blame. they need to get out of ukraine. neil: i don t know, you know, in this country, ambassador, as you re familiar. there s a growing dissent, i wouldn t calling growing to the point of being toppling for the ukraine war effort, but many more republicans of late who said it, particularly in the house, that we want to follow every penny that goes to ukraine that we re getting war weary here. i don t know if the same is happening in britain. i do know like in our country, ambassador, you re dealing with inflation and you re dealing with it, we are, and double-digit inflation and that s weighed on the british people that they ve got the real financial distractions and that might be weighing on support for ukraine, as it is maybe in a small way in this country. does that worry you? it doesn t worry me neil, about britain because the
and do a little prayer service for those students. 70 so of those students are ukrainian refugees. it s hard for me to go there and not be committed to giving their home country the weaponry it needs to win. and not be in a long stalemate. i fear we re giving them just enough to be a static war. as you said in this opening, i think putin is not going to get war weary. i m concerned that the west might. so indeed, what i ve been saying since the first day of the war, we need to give them whatever they need to win this war. what is that exactly? because we ve seen armored personnel carriers go in, that s new. we ve seen tanks go in, those considered essential to allow ukrainian forces to gain back territory and punch through russian lines. but jake sullivan speaking last night, said fighter planes are not what ukraine actually needs
now a routine rhythm for many. you kind of get used to it, said this man. you don t look or listen carefully to what is happening. but i want to live a normal life. after five months of fighting, there s little here left to destroy. except lives. like a video game designer who was killed just before christmas. he always cared about other people more than himself, said his friend. and diplomacy reached another impass this week. russia announcing it will ban oil sales to any country that imposes a cap on what it can charge. the move may limit the ability to punish moscow. but on ukraine s home front, energy is also in short supply. civilians huddled through a cold, dark christmas with electricity outages, war weary but still celebrating as best they can. and this war is now in its 11th
other countries, as well. but all of these financial measures trickle down these financial measures trickle down and these financial measures trickle down and have an impact on ordinary people down and have an impact on ordinary people and down and have an impact on ordinary people and their ability to pay their people and their ability to pay their bills and their mortgage, and to buy their bills and their mortgage, and to buy food in the supermarket. these to buy food in the supermarket. these pressures will get worse in the coming months and i think there will be an the coming months and i think there will be an even greater expectation on the will be an even greater expectation on the government to come up with radical on the government to come up with radical measures to rein it in. staying radical measures to rein it in. staying with the financial times, a really big geopolitical story to get your teeth in the picture you can see those two men, the headlines a
that i think history treats us the same way. if we were isolationists again, before world war ii and during that time, the nazis would have taken over the european continent, and that didn t happen because the united states got involved in the war. i m not saying we want to go to war. we re very war weary, but i don t want to see putin move the lines in countries and take over democracies. and this is very important, stephen, and a lot of people ask me, why is ukraine so important? for several reasons. most importantly, china. as we look to putin and xi standing hand in hand at the olympics with a pact against nato and their desire to weaken nato, calling nato being aggressive rather than putin being aggressive, which i think is the case. all the while, president xi is watching what happens very closely because, if putin can go into ukraine with very little damage, i guarantee president xi