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SUPPORT OF THE LOCAL POPULATION.
>> FAREED, WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES, AS HE JUST
DID A FEW MINUTES AGO IN THE
WHITE HOUSE, HE SAYS THERE WILL
BE COSTS OF ANY MILITARY
INTERVENTION IN UKRAINE.
YOU CAN DEFINE WHAT THOSE COSTS
ARE BUT NOBODY THINKS THAT THE
U.S. OR EU ORNATE TOE WOULD GET
INVOLVED MILITARILY WHAT IS
GOING ON IN UKRAINE.
WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
FINANCIAL SANCTIONS, IF YOU
WILL, POLITICAL SANCTIONS
AGAINST A FORMAL MILITARY
INTERVENTION IN UKRAINE?
>> I THINK THE PRESIDENT WAS
WISE TO LEAVE IT VAGUE BECAUSE
YOU NEVER IN INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS WANT TO SPECIFY IN
ADVANCE WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO.
YOU WANT TO LEAVE ALL YOUR
OPTIONS ON THE TABLE BUT YOU'RE
RIGHT, WOLF, PROBABLY THERE
ISN'T A MILITARY OPTION HERE FOR
THE UNITED STATES OR FOR EUROPE
BUT THERE ARE ECONOMIC
SANCTIONS.
THERE IS A G-8 MEETING COMING
UP.
REMEMBER, THE G-8 WAS THE
RICHEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD
INVITED RUSSIA TO BE PART OF
THAT EXCLUSIVE CLUB BECAUSE IT
SURRENDERED DURING THE COLD WAR,
BECAME PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY.
THAT COULD BE SOMETHING I WOULD
VERY SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHETHER
RUSSIA'S MEMBERSHIP IN THE G-8
COULD BE SUSPENDED.
THERE ARE THOSE KINDS OF ACTS.
RUSSIA VERY MUCH WANTS TO BE
CONSIDERED A LEADING POWER.
AND IF IT WERE TO SEND TROOPS IN
IN AN OVERT INVASION, I THINK
RUSSIA SHOULD BE SUSPENDED FROM
THE G-8.
>> SO I TAKE IT YOU HAVEN'T YET
CONCLUDED, FAR READ, THAT RUSSIA
HAS ACTUALLY INVADED UKRAINE,
THE WORD INVADE OBVIOUSLY A VERY
SENSITIVE WORD?
>> I THINK IT REMAINS SO
UNCLEAR.
THINGS ARE FLUID.
AS I SAY, THEY HAVE SO MANY
MECHANISMS.
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE IS DEEPLY
ACTIVE IN ALL OF UKRAINE AND
PARTICULARLY IN CRIMEA.
BUT I DON'T GET THE SENSE THAT
THEY HAVE THE -- THE REPORTS
DON'T SUGGEST THAT YET AND THE
FACT THAT THE RUSSIANS ARE
CATEGORICALLY DENYING IT SUGGEST
THAT THERE IS -- WHAT IS GOING
ON NOW IS VERY LOW GRADE
ACTIVITY.
AS YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ONE
REPORT ABOUT 2000 RUSSIAN TROOPS