statements since, which is that if you went up against russia there, in the ukraine, which is not a member of nato, does not have article 5 treaty protection, he s not going to send american troops, men and women, in to rescue americans who don t come out commercially? and he said, the president is not going to amend anything the president has said. so as of now, they re saying they re not going to intervene. i don t know if that is sustainable. but that is the position. terrell, this is andrea brings up an important point. a lot of russia s neighbors along the eastern borders have joined nato. ukraine is not one of them. they ve had fits and starts, two revolutions, pro-russian presidents whom they ve elected and thrown out. it s a country that now would
over hyped. they re already eu suspensions in effect and german suspensions in effect. all that chancellor scholz did was put a third suspension in force. the sanction that would work. you tell putin that nord stream 2 will never be turned on until and unless all russian forces on foreign territory, not at the invitation of the foreign government are removed, like those already in crimea and eastern ukraine. putin still has the initiative, the momentum. the action is his in ukraine right now. one of the red lines this administration has had and our allies is ukraine is not entitled to article 5 protection, treaty protection. and the u.s. will not send troops to rescue americans. there are several thousand americans in ukraine and others who may be on the kill list, the
why they were so eager to join nato, they wanted that article five treaty protection. and even more eager to join the eu because they want to be economic benefits of joining the eu. of course, there are those, tom friedman in yesterday s new york times, criticizing the nato expansion, saying that at the moment that the soviet union had collapsed, and russian pride was ground into was been ground down, and people like vladimir putin, of course, we re grieving for the fall of the soviet empire. the follow the berlin wall, where he had been in charge of the kgb in east germany for so long. that was the worst time to then begin reaching nato expansion, because that was ending any hope that russia and the united states and nato could ever work peacefully together. i m not sure i agree with that.
0 official, i asked him if president putin is directing this himself. and he said yes, that is how it is going. that is not surprising. we know that president putin makes all of the decisions. in the end, he will have had advice from that small clique around him, that ultimately he is the decision-maker. and another element of his televised address, which to reiterate, if russians will be stunned by. waking up and seeing now, another man from that televised address, which is chilling frankly. is that president putin requires russian s nuclear capability. and clearly, openly threatens western leaders. even after the collapse of the ussr, losing a significant part of the nuclear potential. today, russia is one of the most nuclear powers. and he says, i think that this is a direct message to the west. in this regard, no one should have any doubt that a direct attack on russia will lead to defeat and dire consequences for a potential aggressor. and so, i just want to say all, just before t
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