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Hes already second only to stalins 30 year dictatorship. But listen to the pigeon, the world first met. Freedom of speech freedom of conscience, freedom of the mass media, rights of the owners will again, these fundamental components of any Civilized Society will be reliably protected by the state none of those freedoms exist in putins russia today. And any real opposition to him or his war in ukraine have been brutally crushed, both inside and outside the country. Just this week, the late russian opposition leader, Alexei NavalnysChief Of Staff was attacked in exile in lithuania. And this is a putin who may very well when his struggle with the west on the ukrainian battlefield, thanks to trumps maga force in congress denying ukraine the ammunition and weapons, it desperately needs. I spoke with John Sullivan americas ambassador to moscow, and the president s trump and biden when the country invaded ukraine just over two years ago, hes currently a partner at mayer brown and hes the author of the forthcoming book, midnight in moscow. Ambassador jon sarlin, welcome back to our program. Thank you. Christiane, good to be with you today. So its great to talk to you as we have this shifting dynamic on the ukrainian battlefield. And as putin has his elections this weekend, i want to start by asking you about something he told Russian Television this week the technical point view of course, we already ready but yeah, theyre constantly comment ready. Im not sure three other are triad, the Nuclear Triad is more modern than any other triad, and its only us to The Americans who have such triads. In general. If we talk about the carriers, a number of warheads we are more or less equal. But hours or more modern. Everyone knows that all specialists, no so im basil to how concerned are you that putin keeps talking about having the upper hand in the nuclear domain. And even though hes not threatening to use them, he still dangles that threat. Yeah. Christiane, he has been doing in this for years. If if youll recall, back when he was running for reelection the last time in 2018, he spoke in front of a video, a cartoon that showed a russian missiles striking south florida, where then president trump, of course he his Maralago Club he has been rattling the nuclear sabre for years. Its been part of his his way of dealing with the United States. Hes invested a lot of money and his Nuclear Weapons and particularly in new Delivery Systems he has been basically using nuclear blackmail over ukraines since the start of the socalled military as special military operation. So this is just of a piece with what hes been doing for years. Its how we operates in my opinion. Its crazy. So then because were talking as this election is underway in russia is this an election that anybody should be concerned about . I mean, we know hes running putin unopposed. I mean, the the nominal a position are just nominal, just to be playing in that game. But what do you think a convincing claim of a win . Well mean for him in the situation he finds itself in right now, theres no doubt that hes going to win as you say, hes running effectively unopposed. But this election is extremely important. For him, for putin, for russia. And i would say for the world, for the following reason, hes been working on this, this project, getting himself reelected despite the russian constitution, term limits, which were in effect until he had the constitution revised in 2020. Hes been working on this for you years, winning reelection. But heres the key factor from his perspective. Its turnout. He wants to be able to tell the world, show the world that the russian people support him. They turned out in large numbers, 75, 80 and voted for him. What the opposition is trying to do is to use that Turnout Issue against him and there has been you may have seen an organized effort to try to convince those who are opposed to bouton to vote at a particular time. On sunday noon on sunday going to the polls showing long lines of people at that precise time, as opposed to putin the election comes down to turnout. Putin wants a large turnout to validate, to claim legitimacy for his, his rule, because otherwise he doesnt have legit lets see. He doesnt have, for example, the communist ideology that the soviet leaders have had. He doesnt have the divine right of rule, the way the czars have he seeks legitimacy from the russian people. Thats what he really craves otherwise, he would just declare himself president. Youre a republican and you see what donald trump republicans are doing in congress about aid to ukraine and appearing to actually be throwing their loss in with putin rather than the democratic sovereign independent ukraine that the rest of the world is the western world supporting. This is what republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin said recently we are now two years into this bloodbath an hour in a bloody stalemate and the reality i think a lot of my colleagues for supporting this aid package are ignoring that Vladimir Putin will not lose this war does that worry you . And what will happen if america doesnt step up and if putin doesnt lose this war, well, christiane, this, in my opinion, is not should not be a partisan issue. The National Security, the United States are Foreign Policy interests are at stake in ukraine, and we cant talk away the risk. We cant wish away the risk. We can stick our heads in the sand. We tried that twice in the 20th century when there was a war in europe before the great war and before the second world war. And we failed this type of conflict in the european continent affects the United States directly, particularly when that war has been launched. Bye, by, by an autocrat who is launched an aggressive war virtually identical to the war that hitler started, a september 1, 1939 against poland. The same rationales were used. Hitler used the same language that putin justi, he started a war hitler on september 1, 1939 because he claimed that polls were abusing were barbaric towards germans in poland. That was his rationale and he claimed that poland was going to attack germany were first boot and say this hitler stood the truth on its head, who has done the same thing . He launched a war because he said that the ukrainians were a bunch of crazy nazis who were engaged in a genocide against russians in ukraine and thats fantasy. The un general assembly, the International Court of justice. Countries that have no association with naibe the eu voted overwhelmingly against putins rationales for this war. So hes launched an aggressive war on the continent of europe that affects us allies and the United States directly. This, it seems to me, should not be a difficult Foreign Policy and National Security issue. And its not an issue that we should be. It makes no sense to me to say, well, we cant help ukraine because we need to be spending money to secure our southern border or do something else. Of course, we can do both. This is the United States weve been able to contain the soviet union prevail in the cold war i mean, what type of backbone to our leaders have now, were going to allow putin, the president of russia, to start a massive war on the continent of europe. And we dont have the where with all of the courage to stand up to him. I think for republicans and democrats, they need to think about this. What would harry truman or Dwight Eisenhower say . What would jack kennedy or Ronald Reagan say . What would they be saying to those senators and members you today are saying we shouldnt support ukraine, what theyd be saying is we should support ukraine along with our allies and contain and defeat this russian aggression period. Ambassador jon sarlin. And thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, christiane strong words indeed coming up later on the show, nasa chief bill nelson on what Niagara Falls has to do with space. And the surge, right now for nasas next crop of martians. But first, my World Exclusive with queen Rania Of Jordan on why aid drops in gaza arent enough. We cannot save people from hunger only then to bomb them to death immediate ceasefire is the number one priority United States of scandal with jake tapper. Tomorrow at nine on cnn. Beautiful and healthy looking eyes. 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But experts say it is not nearly enough to stem the suffering in our exclusive interview, queen Rania Of Jordan tells me how her country is joining us, airdrops to a starving population. Queen rania, welcome back to our program. Thank you for sound. Can i first asked you it is ramadan is just started and i wonder what your reflections are for yourself, for your family, for muslims around the world celebrating, or maybe thats not the right word marking ramadan this year in the middle of this war well, you know, Christian Ramadan for us is a month of worship, charity, and compassion for our fellow human being. And i think this year were welcoming these holidays with very heavy hearts. Ramadan is typically defined with family gatherings, people coming together, sharing a meal and breaking their family lets together. But what does it like for the people of gaza today who are now hungry and thirsty, intense or makeshift shelters who are more morning, theyre dead and morning the life that they had just a few months ago, you know, christian since the beginning of this israel has, has cut off everything that is required to sustain a human life food, fuel, shelter, medicine, water, and this has been going on now for five months and sloughed the people of gaza completely rely on an outside Assistant Assistance and actually it has systematically denied and delayed a lot of that assistance occasionally, bombings some of the convoys that bring this assistance and bombings on the people shooting at some of the people who are trying to get whatever scarce resources that they can get according to the un, every Single Person in gaza today is hungry over quarter of the population thats more than 550,000 people, or once step away from famine. Experts say that they have never seen a population descend into such mass hunger so rapidly i mean, im hearing of people just eating whatever they can get their handson, including grass or theyre having to grind a bird or animal further just to just to make bread and in the north of gaza, people are not on the verge of starvation. There actually dying of starvation. It starts with the most vulnerable and the elderly, the wounded babies were hearing increasing number of babies were dying from severe malnutrition. And thirst and if, if things dont change, i think these cases are going to be firefighters aspiring throughout the strip know this has been a slow motion mass murder of children five months in the making, children who were thriving and healthy just months ago are wasting way in front of their parents not starvation is a very slow, cool, and painful death your muscles shrink, your new system, shuts down your organs, give out. Imagine being a parent having to go through that witness, your child going through that, not being able to do anything to help it is absolutely shameful, outrageous and entirely predictable. Whats happening in gaza today because it was deliberate. A queen rania, we have been reporting systematically what youre destroying, describing in fact, a lot of the world is now and has been reporting this severe hunger. The statistics, the pictures that youre talking about, i wonder whether you think that that is the reason why, for instance, United States, the uk, other nations which are allies of israel, have started to really ramp up their need to deliver aid like the airdrops that jordan has been involved in. You see, us doing it. You see the idea of a floating pier in order to bring much more aid via the sea. Do you think the message that youve just described has actually now gotten through . When look, let me just be very clear about what these airdrops are they are us resorting to Desperate Measures in order to address a desperate situation these airdrops are literally it just drops in an ocean of unmet