Boat as china. with china, you have a communist party, you have a marxist, leninist ideology that s transmitted through the party in the schools. in russia you have more of a gangster regime. that means these are guys who respect the language of power. that s what the realist analysis is all about. give a large country, russia. then a grizzly bear and then you have this small little puppy dog, the ukraine right next to it. essentially what mearsheimer is saying that it imposes on the ukraine. learn to get along with this big grizzly bear. saying that the neoliberals in the west have now for 20 years been sort of urging the ukraine to poke the bear. poke the grizzly. we are on your side. you join the west. we are going to form an invincible alliance. putin is on his way out.
With, we don t want to dirty money in the country to start with. if they are in the country to start with. if they are having influence or deriving they are having influence or deriving that money from the gangster regime that runs in russia the moment, then that adds to the gravity the moment, then that adds to the gravity of the moment, then that adds to the gravity of the situation, doesn t it? but gravity of the situation, doesn t it? but the root problem is dirty money, it? but the root problem is dirty money, full stop. it is notjust people money, full stop. it is notjust people from russia, but those people comihg people from russia, but those people coming from other parts of the road to london coming from other parts of the road to london and living here lending their to london and living here lending their cash to london and living here lending their cash laundering their cash in effect their cash laundering their cash in effect. ., their cash launder
The features of authoritarian society, censorship, mass surveillance, going after political opponents, the idea of a one-party state, the kind of corrupt gangster regime in charge, you realize all those elements are present in our own country, and so suddenly it s a very different way of thinking about these conflicts. it s not about the fact that anybody is championing putin. no, it s simply about we are asking what are we supposed to be defending one many of the things we deplored abroad are deployed by the biden demonstration at home? laura: i want you both to hear this, but have to play a big focus of cnn earlier tonight first. war coverage remains blacked out in russia after putin signed a lot of criminalizing news reporting on his invasion, not even allowing to call it a war. tv networks going black and basically a blackout in terms of information from russia and so anyways. ukrainians family in russia say they have no idea what is going
Communism fell we wanted the russians in as a way to encourage them to become a democracy and become ally. in the 90s it was possible. we had yeltsin, they tried democracy. but when putin came in after yeltsin, he dismantled the democracy. it s a dictatorship. everybody understands that. a gangster regime of kgb agents. everybody understands that. why are they in the g-8? there is no common purpose. idea of the g-7 is the industrialgizeed democracies have common interest, biggest of the free world and they will act in a way in concert. if you bring in russians you have a talking society. i think we ought to either kick them out or dissolve the g-8 as obsolete. reinstitute something resembling the g-7. russians are adversary. they aren t enemy, but they are not an ally. g-# was supposed to be a way for the coordination of the
militant group that may be as big a threat to the united states in afghanistan as al qaeda or the taliban. the obama administration appears ready to formally call the haqqani network what so many people believe it is, a terrorist organization. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department, she s been digging on this story. what are you learning? wolf your know, the political pressure here in the united states has been building to put the haqqani network on that list of terrorist organizations. but what really put force behind the argument is a violent action by the group itself. reporter: violent attacks in afghanistan, american blood spilled. haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack as well as the assaults on our embassy. reporter: now u.s. officials tell cnn, secretary of state hillary clinton is on the verge of designating the al qaeda linked haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization. one official says,