this is why i m so focused on intelligence sharing and gets into ukraine. remember, the russians are the people who survived the siege of stalingrad. if you don t know about siege of stalingrad, look it up. everybody feels the pain of sanctions, but we shouldn t rely just on sanctions to deter. we need a more comprehensive threat than just sanctions. jacqui: to your point, you know, the trigger has been invasion or aggression, that s been sort of the threshold for u.s. response, but russia has continued to add troops to its border. listening to what the pentagon press secretary said yesterday. as i ve said before, one significant key way for us to get deescalated is to get the russians, to pull some of the forces out back away from the border with ukraine. they ve shown no indication for that and continue to add to the force presence there. jacqui: so we have not
the control of congress is up to the house. louisiana and carolina and georgia. that georgia race is brutal. to raise money for nine weeks, like 2 1/2 months, it s a third. and only then when you get into the runoff are you into the general election. it s one of those inside/outside. kingston has been there for 11 terms but then there s this man who is the outsider. it will be an interesting race. it s like the siege of stalingrad. kingston s opponent has tons of money. he s but 10 million bucks in this race already. this is an establishment versus tea party battle, even though kingston is not a tea party guy. perdue is mr. chamber of commerce. mr. republican establishment. he s sort of the aura, or the
understand the russian experience over the last century has been horrible at times. they were invaded by the germans. you had the siege of stalingrad and leningrad. you had stalin. you had stalin. and the czars before that. a country who perhaps as a result the leadership of this country may be cynical, may be very hardened, may think that the world is a brutal and awful place. and chemical weapons in the general scheme of things, if they threaten us that s bad, but you know, we actually don t care that much about some of these other conflicts because we ve seen a lot of blood shed and i just don t think you see quite the same moral outrage about some of these issues you see in the united states. they ve had a much more brutal recent history. interesting thing is from 1945 right till 91 the fall of the moscow coup the two countries never fought with each other. that s one of the great realities of history. there is some rationality on their side. i think khrushchev was incr
i hear that from people, and i go are you guys still fighting the cold war? what is it about the russians you don t like now? no, i think that s nonsensical. there may be certain reasons that democracy is harder to make work in a country of russia s size and political traditions than other eastern european countries. whenever someone starts talking about the nature of different people i get nervous. i think it s important people understand the russian experience over the last century has been horrible at times. they were invaded by the germans. you had the siege of stalingrad and leningrad. you had stalin. you had stalin. and the czars before that. a country who perhaps as a result the leadership of this country may be cynical, may be very hardened, may think that the world is a brutal and awful place. and chemical weapons in the general scheme of things, if they threaten us that s bad, but you know, we actually don t care that much about some of these other conflicts bec