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Do to your ability to really twist with leverage? >> for small, i have to say that the former secretary is about as wrong as he could possibly be. he acts as if he was doing everything he could when he still had the opportunity. of course the administration has made some mistakes, but i would say in the last few weeks, i have seen the best diplomatic effort i have seen from the united states since 1995 to keep the alliance together, to bring along other countries. i think we did start a little b...

Humanitarian proposal you support, would that be necessary? >> clearly the russian air forces have shown to lack in ability to fly into a challenged airspace. something we thought they could do. what youre seeing now, as you have seen across the last few days, including the attacks lviv, russia aspiring from the black serie, belarus and other places into ukraine because theyre having trouble navigating the few remaining surface-to-air capabilities that the ukrainian have. once again, we need to ...

Many other nations added concern with the kinds of capabilities that the north is trying to develop. >> what they are trying to develop is very clear. a missile they can fire it maintain stable flight with a prigs warhead that could potentially strike a target in the united states. thats the progress the u.s. does not want to see north korea make and that is why they took this extraordinary step revealing the intelligence and saying theyll collect even more of it and hoping somehow that brings k...

Belarus perhaps as a prelude to greater involvement. now the scale of their military capabilities is substantial. they dont need that many to help the russians. what the russians really need is logistical support. theyre fully committed, they were in belarus, if they have other ways and they came in with several thousand, they have almost the same equipment, they could punch in from further west and draw off ukrainian forces that would have to come to the defense of those locations, draw them ba...

Mykolaiv, so the idea of fighting to a stalemate. and what happens if we get to the scenario, russia will not leave and ukraine wont give up. >> distinction between tactical and strategic stalemate. they could stalemate at the strategic level, means the russians do not achieve the big strategic objectives, but could be push back and forth at the tactical level, like in world war i, fighting over inches and access and roads, that could happen. that raises an interesting question. what we have lea...

Key areas with regard to, for example, oil and gas sanctions on the russians. buff they were listening. now we are doing the same on the mig 29s and see if they listen on. that was overall, i think there is pretty strong bipartisan support on in brutal invasion by the dictator putin. >> bret: but do you think, for example, the mig 29s would make a difference on the battlefield for the ukrainians? >> well, i think, you know, the beginning of this discussion came when president zelenskyy requested...

Responsibility lies. but theres no question that the responses that weve seen from nato -- and theyre in three buckets. one is the willingness to try to destroy the russian economy, including freezing a majority of russias central bank assets, something you have never seen in history against any economy of scale. number two, providing the ukrainian government with significant defensive capabilities so they can defend themselves and kill russian invaders, and also intelligence on the disposition ...

Concerns about possible encirclement. i think you had raised some questions about the capabilities of russians to actually encircle the city. what do you think is going on now? >> first, anderson, clarissas report was very good. when she was saying she heard repeated booms having been a tanker all my life, living close to tank range on various ports in the united states and in europe, those were probably tank battles truthfully or tanks against anti-tank weapon systems, which weve repeatedly see...

Thats the air power, the bombers and the cruise missiles and the ballistic missiles raining fire on to cities. when russia loses these capabilities, then its going to come to the negotiating table. and i think its a failed premise to think about the next day or two. we should think about how this war looks in six weeks or even in six months and recognize that its going to be bigger, its going to be a greater pressure from our populations in the u.s. and europe to support ukraine, and the decisio...

Capabilities, if they do decide to do that? well, under the international chemical weapons convention, years ago, russia declared and opened to inspection all of its chemical weapons stocks. they also dismantled all of their chemical weapon production facilities and destroyed the chemicals themselves under international inspection. so, right now, the inventory of the most lethal chemical weapons russia possessed is probably very close to zero. crosstalk. lots of people would be surprised to hear...