consequence and they are also acting on a keen interest as you pointed out to retain ukraine and their influence. it s the need and opportunity that s driving the russian action at the moment and biden administration s goal is to demonstrate that there is a significant cost. the question is whether that s been made clear and if that s sufficient to overcome this urgency for the russian side. you know, it feels like this is an endless feedback loop with the russians where the u.s. has in the past wanted to have something like more normal relations after president obama was reelected there was the infamous i ll have more latitude kind of thing when putin briefly pretended to step aside even though he never stepped aside and into that opening, putin over did it, right? he went and grabbed crimea, tried to invade it, crimea in 2014. so he s been super aggressive wherever there is any attempt to behave as if he is a more normal actor. so where does this end?
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the leader of a country. right now what we ll be doing as early as tomorrow but certainly sometime this week is to go after people very close to him, go after the entities they control are you ruling out targeting i m not ruling anything in or anything out. and his vast wealth which has been reported as lately as this morning. what we re seeing is the people around him are being directly affected by the measures we re taking and the steps the europeans are taking. pull back here. what is the larger strategic interest for the united states? hone honestly, putin cares more about crimea and the ukraine does than the united states does in terms of managing the world. russia went in to a country and tried to redraw the map of the country by force. if we stand by and allow that to happen, that sets a terrible precedent. virtually everywhere else in the world, and we re hearing that in asia from some of our asian partners, even hearing it from the chinese. there s something el
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