keeping putin on his heels maybe isn t the right way to describe it. it s not clear that he ends up on his heels very often, but to make public everything that we know in the spirit of what julia s describing, if we think he might go to war on wednesday, we say, prepare for war on wednesday, and at least buy ourselves and our allies some time. what is your sense of the white house using all the levers of power at their disposal to stave off war? the administration officials i have talked to the last couple days say this is very deliberate. let s remember, of course, putin, ex-kgb, ex-intelligence officer. they think it would rattle him to be putting out in almost realtime the intelligence the u.s. and its allies are collecting. they know how important that is to putin. it started a few weeks ago. the uk put forth information that moscow had a plan to install a puppet regime in kyiv if they were to indeed go in, and now we ve heard from jake sullivan and others stateside, doing the sa
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that s going to happen or not. and with that is just another power play here that s happening and you can basically trace this meeting to those things or origins. is lavrov going to have the upper hands coming out or is tillerson, he s the more serious diplomat. as we said the united states did make a strike in syria, which probably did rattle moscow quite a bit. so who comes out of this being the stronger party? that is certainly the party, diplomats come to the core, there is a lot of weights thrown around more and be more influential on the ground. john, help me with this one. rid him me this tillerson seems to have a harder line on russia when he heads in there, you know, about what will be acceptable, what isn t. but before he gets there, he s at the g7 with a group of people very concerned of what s happening in ukraine. he says, why would the american taxpayer care about what s going on in ukraine? what s that about? i don t know. i m absolutely befuddled by that