It's one thing if it's a slight infiltration and then we finish up having a contest around what to do and not do etc then if they actually do what they're proficient of doing with the strength of frame on the edge it is going to be a disaster for russia if they further engrade you invade ukraine yesterday putin ordered troops into the region and the white house i it seems like the response even though it's supposed to be quite robust was very timid and then you had this splitting of hairs in this question about what russia actually did yesterday do you see what russia did yesterday afternoon as a minor incursion or an invasion all right dean this is angel's on the head of a pin,
Thanks for you and bill having me on this morning the administration has been so muddled in the way they have made vladimir putin have the upper hand throughout this entire time every time putin acts we are on our back foot he does no he has no fear of the united states of america a response that we might take he can see even this morning he's now not moved peacekeeping troops in but moved in his tanks and we abandoned ukraine with our diplomats but apparently that's not enough to support the ukrainian people this has been this has been a model of how when you fail at deterrence when you fail to validate the tenacity obligatory to defend possessions that substance not individual to the ukrainian societies and not only to eastern europe but to the society of the united states of america,
When you are prepared to defend those things that matter most then the bad guys in the world will begin to do precisely what you're seeing vladimir putin start today so for four years democrats said that donald tr p was in all of vladimir putin and joe biden was one of them lay out for us what a proper deterrence would have been if you believe you could have stopped putin when you were in office well bill i can say this the the only thing that has changed in the last 14 months is the leadership in the united states of america we we've all known vladimir putin a long time i spent a great deal of time with him and his lieutenants he hasn't changed his vision for reinstating the greater soviet union and creating a sphere of influence was precisely the same for the four years,
That i was in office alongside president trump we were determined to convince him that there were things he could not do and we put lots of sanctions on it but where we could work with him we could we had a model for engagement and deterrence that stopped him from doing precisely what you're seeing happen this morning but again what could or would have stopped him well we stopped him with an idea that said the united states is going to protect the things that matter this is the very concept of strategic deterrence today these are things president biden could have done we could have stopped nordstrom 2 months ago or was much further away from completion,
They could have begun to put real sanctions in place i saw what the president signed last night i must say vladimir putin saw them put sanctions for those double portions of ukraine and he observed that as a green light for continual belligerence we could start to have nato move militaries to estonia and lithuania and latvia to defend those countries we could have rallied the west and europe to say that these are the things that we will do together they've been unable to do each of those or perhaps haven't been interested or focused elsewhere and then they'll all add one more thing it's not just about this place with russia and ukraine right the russians confront us in syria xi jinping's watching,
What's happening here as well so it's chairman kim each time we fail to demonstrate american resolve whether it is the debacle that was afghanistan that cost 13 americans to perish as we exited those are the kind of things that convince people like vladimir putin that that his dream his dream of recreating the soviet union is something he may well be able to do under this leadership watch here in the united states mr secretary they spent a lot of time the administration trying to tell us that nato has never been more united that this has really focused the mind but yet this morning i see that even italy on when it comes to sanctions is saying well actually we're not sure we're going to take a look as long as it doesn't have to do with energy,
The energy policy that the europeans decided on a couple of decades ago has turned out to be a disaster do you think nato hangs together here i'm counting on it it must this is the primary example a contest to the european command the european organism definitely the eastern european nations need republics like france and germany and italy to come in to backing them in their time of necessity this time when there's a real safety interest putin has bigger plans he has more aggression in mind and it will yield a united europe to central the energy to challenge that and dana one last supposed on dynamism.
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