This morning, President Biden huddled in the situation room with his full national security team.

And we expect to hear the president in just a few moments announce a new round of sweeping sanctions

for what he calls the unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine.

Russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of Ukraine.

Without provocation, without justification, without necessity, this is a premeditated attack.

Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, says history will be made at this summit.

Ukraine never wanted this war.

It's a criminal and absolutely unprovoked aggression of Russia.

And the only one who wanted it was Putin.

Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the Libertarian Institute.

Today we'll be discussing provoked how Washington started the new Cold War with Russia

and the catastrophe in Ukraine with the author, Scott Horton.

Can you walk us through the German unification deal with Secretary of State James Baker?

Sure. Okay. So this is the fall of the Soviet Union.

And from the time after World War II, up until 1989, or the process beginning in 1989, the Soviet Union occupied all of Eastern Europe, including all the way to halfway across Germany. And when the Soviet Union started falling apart in 1989, essentially people

started fleeing from Hungary into Austria, neutral Austria. And the communist rule had always been,

and they'll cheat you for trying to escape. And that's real. I mean, people could not escape

outside the borders of the Soviet Union. They'd be machine gun.

But when they fled from Hungary into Austria in November of 1989, the new, or not that new, but the Soviet premier Gorbachev ordered his men to hold their fire and allow the people to go ahead and go. And then that was it,

man, like a flood gate. I just saw a video the other day of a guy kind of gently chipping away at

a beaver dam until the whole thing just completely, you know, fell apart because, you know,

it was going to flood or whatever you need to. But that's the fall of the Soviet Union right

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