thinking about all of the other things that are on their plate and enormously large plate with humongous issues on said plate as they go in and think about the midterms. and this white house as they have been looking at what is going on with russia, they have talked mostly as we talked earlier about the sanctions, talking about how much they have done to squeeze putin. but everybody also knows that they are giving munitions. we ve given delivered different weapons, stinger weapons, but they are not saying that publicly because what they himself know is that they have to make sure that putin doesn t get an excuse to say that we ve ratcheted things up or we re more involved than we are because we know that he will lie. so that is what they are also concerned about. so making sure that they are seen as a part of the leadership of this operation without being seen by putin as changing things
they have to continue that we ll also thinking about the other things that are on their plate, anomalously large play, humongous issues on said plate. as they go on and think about the midterms. this white house, as they have been looking at what is going on with russia, they i have talked, mostly, about the sanctions. about how much they have done to squeeze putin, but everybody also knows they re given ammunition. we can deliver different weapons, stinger weapons, but they aren t sending those. what they also do know, is they have to make sure that vladimir putin doesn t get an excuse to say that we ratcheted things up, or were more involved than we are. because we know he will lie. so that is something they re trying to off soil. so that way, if we move forward the applesauce in as a part of
here. in an odd way, it s the fear that their success so far with the sanctions and russia s failure to get very far with its traditional invasion could force putin to go the next step. right. the fear that putin becomes a cornered like a cornered animal on the battlefield. the big picture of all of this in some ways is what president zelenskyy has been talking about. he said he wants 1% of nato s planes and tanks but he s also asking in general for more long-term security guarantees. to what extent are nato leaders going to be talking about that? what kind of security guarantees can they give to countries like ukraine that are not in the alliance? well, this is their problem because they did give ukraine a security guarantee. the united states, britain, ukraine and russia together guav the security guarantee in 1994 to ukraine when it gave up its
being here. let s start with that. the nato chief said that russia was using chemical if russia is using chemical weapons, it will change the nature of this conflict. with that and with this news of the phosphorous bombs being potentially used, what is the u.s. prepared to do, if putin does escalate this conflict into the chemical space or, you know, tactical nuclear weapons? well, first of all, russia and putin have been indiscriminately bombing civilian targets with a wide variety of weapons. whether the phosphorous claims are true or not, putin and russia have committed war crimes and are conducting a devastating war in ukraine. we must be 100% clear on that. a big part of the reason why president biden is in europe right now meeting with nato partners is to answer that question. what do we do if russia introduces chemical weapons? there are a wide range of options. at the moment, what we ve done, what president biden has done a
russia s lower house of parliament in addition to more russian oligarchs and dozens of russian defense companies as part of this show of force that s coming with president biden to these urgent summits he is holding here in brussels today. three separate meetings, all with power players across the globe as they are trying to squeeze putin, now that this inv invasion has hit its one-month mark. and the white house saying there s no clear end in sight right now. president biden having this meeting, focused on president putin and his actions today. this is only the first meeting that was abruptly scheduled which is remarkable in and of itself that they put something like this together in days when normally a meeting like this takes months to put together. and these nato leaders will meet again in june. this is likely still going to be something they are discussing when they meet then. and what they are going to talk about between now and then when it comes to force posture and force prese