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Now by agreeing to a diplomatic solution or at least stopping the bombing and death and destruction he is causing against a nation that provoked nobody. presented no threat to russia. all of this is by his choice, and all that blood is on his hands and he could stop it right now if he wanted to. >> john, there is discussion that some nato allies might send their s-300s. is the u.s. involved in the discussions and will the u.s. green light, give a green light should some allies move forward with ...

This goes all the way back to the days of the soviet union. but this is where the problem lies. back in 2005, then u.s. senators dick lugar and barack obama helped expand a pentagon program which has, in part quote assisted the ukrainian government in converting former soviet biological weapons research facilities to support peaceful and safe biological detection and diagnostic capabilities and reduce the threats posed by dangerous pathogens. so how many of these former soviet weapons labs still...

Nato partners are sending to ukraine is expanding, the systems are on the way to better help ukraine defend itself against what are really just relentless russian attacks. >> raises the possibility that the ukrainian forces grow stronger with higher capabilities the longer this conflict goes on. jim, i want your take on this because you have now lived through these weeks and week of back and forth and talks of negotiations. a lot of interesting language over just the last few hours from both the...

Day. were also continuing to close corporations with allies and partners to make sure that close cooperation we continue to have, ukrainian people are able to defend their own nation. the united states has sent more than $1 billion in security assistance to ukraine over the last year, including anti-armor, and anti-air capabilities taking out tanks and planes and helicopters. new shipments arriving every day. we, the united states, are also facilitating significant shipments of security assistan...

Capabilities used extensively by the azerbaijanis in the recent war with armenia back in 2020 to great effect against the armenian armor. but instead, what weve seen in this particular conflict with the russians is they havent really used drones at all which surprised us because the russians have been investing heavily in drones. i think what you will see with switch blade is the ukrainians getting a very effective loitering munition capability they can use to great effect against russian armor....

Intellect. and thats the angle. joining me now is daniel davis, a senior fellow at defense priority. lieutenant colonel davis, there are only a few people and the media actually raising any questions about the practical reality here. political defense reporter aske on twitter who are the ukrainia pilots that will fly them. do we know their capabilities? i ask you, do we know that answer tonight? >> we dont, there is so many questions we dont know. man, i agreed with everything you just said. you...

Attack, that is why you are seeing vladimir putin cut off ties from an internet perspective. similarly how we did to the economy to weatherproof themselves from sanctions perspectives. they are scared around the offense of capabilities that the united states has. itll be interesting to see the infrastructure and economic areas. speech i have to touch on one thing. hackers are a bad thing. whenever you hear about hackers, they are wreaking havoc somewhere on the internet. now we are hearing about...

He would first provide us with serious weapons we greatly appreciate that britain was the _ we greatly appreciate that britain was the first to provide us with serious — was the first to provide us with serious weapons that have increased our defence — serious weapons that have increased our defence capabilities. your role is special and your courage and spirit are in stark contrast to the pacivity of some other countries. i would also like to thank you for the help we expect in the near fut...

2.5% of our gdp. and this is absolutely necessary, because if all the armies are stronger in europe, then nato is stronger. and the third point is we should also think about more of a cooperation. there are some capabilities that are too expensive for any individual state, but if we do them together here in europe to protect our territories, we are stronger. and, of course, we must move on with the isolation of russia at all the political levels that is possible. >> when you talk about moving fr...

Provisional of additional fighter aircraft provides little increased capabilities at high risk. we also believe that there are alternative options that are much better suited to support the ukrainian military in their fight against russia. >> it seems, helene, thats a shift, not that this could trigger world war iii but it essentially wouldnt make a difference. what do you make of what were hearing in terms of messaging on this? theres a lot of pressure on the biden administration to do somethin...