invade further, nord stream 2 is finished. it s done. germany appears to be on board for that. there is a scenario where putin doesn t explicitly invade, roll tanks across the border, but keeps troops around the border, carries out cyberattacks, perhaps reinforces russian positions inside ukrainian territory, so gets the pressure but keeps the pipeline. how do we avoid that? there were conversations, how would we respond as an alliance and as a group of people who love democracy and freedom. i think we need to work again collectively and collaboratively in our response. every day is a different set of snare yoes and different set of decisions that we need to go through. i am really grateful i had the opportunity to go on this trip and be able to see just how unified we are in understanding the gravity of the situation
we going to get our act together quickly so that we can avoid all those tragedies that we had in the 20th century, or are we going to end up being as complacent as people were in the run up to both first and second world wars? but does that mean we might have to change our assumption, which is the assumption, certainly in this country right now and, i think in other western countries, too, that there won t be boots on the ground? i was talking to some of your colleagues today and there was a real sense of regret, some of them saying, actually, the uk essentially, partly over that famous vote over syria, partly, of course, over what happened in the summer in afghanistan with that too many people, distressing withdrawal from kabul, essentially the uk and other western countries have taken force of the table and therefore, that is a green light to people who want to take countries, who want to see themselves as strongmen and roll tanks into wherever they like.
has calmed down a little bit. megyn: how is this about rush and not about president obama and whether there was the right move. that is the question we re asking today, chris, plant. when called upon to defend the indefensible don t, change the subject and attack, that s what we just witnessed rht there. rush limbaugh, i m on before rush limbaugh, i compared it to joseph s punishing ukraine. you look what happened in georgia, the prague spring, president obama has done everything but roll tanks on them. they are denying access to the computer database under the 287g program which is completely gratuitous and it s reminiscent of the epa official who a while back said that, you know, like the roman legions you go into turkish villages and crucify the