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Russian troops, among the russian rank-and-file. the question is, theyve been trying to get the donbas for eight years. things have gone horrifically over the past 50-plus days. what is the chance of them turning things around if the united states, if nato gets even more advanced weaponry into the hands of the ukrainians? >> i dont think i know. i dont think the ukrainians know. their determination is simply unbelievable. but i dont see how the ukrainians can pull this off unless we give them th...

Them. they have suffered losses. they have suffered casualties. they have lost platforms and systems whether its aircraft or tanks or armored personnel. they still have quite a bit of capability. they are concentrating that in a smaller area in the donbas but also the south. they are trying, as i answered earlier. they are trying to overcome some of their logistics and sustainment. they wont have to as far to go in the donbas to resupply, refuel their forces in the donbas. they have a long borde...

They have suffered losses, they have suffered casualties. they have lost platforms and systems, whether its aircraft or tanks. youve seen destroyed russian platforms on the side of the road but they still have quite a bit of capability left. they are concentrating that capability in the donbas specifically but also in the south. so they are trying to overcome some of their logistics and sustainment, their interior line of communication problems, if you will. they wont have as far to go in the do...

Ukrainians move against russian positions in certain towns and villages and we believe they have been able to resecure some of the towns and villages in the donbas. were not disputing that theres not combat going on in the donbas. what were saying is we still consider what were seeing to be a piece of shaping operations, that the russians are continuing to set the conditions for what they believe will be eventually success on the ground by using -- by putting in more forces, putting in more enab...

Ukraine using ground methods, and thats as far as im going to go in terms of the details on that. were confident that that material continues to get into ukraine. once it gets into ukrainian hands, its up to the ukrainian armed forces to decide where it goes. what unit gets it, where its stored if its stored at all temporarily. that is up to the ukrainians to decide, not the united states. were not putting strings on this and say they have to move this by a certain date or get it to a certain un...

Displaced people coming here looking for sanctuary and looking for refuge in lviv but in longer finding that here. you speak to ukrainians through the day today and they wont say will lviv be hit again but when? that is when putin broadened the attacks and made it very clear there is no more sanctuary in this country. so people are very on edge here. they were shaken up before this happened when the outskirts of the city was hit. now they are really frightened that they could be a target in this...

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Existential threat was during the trump administration, jim mattis made it very clear there was only one existential threat, and it was china. and i think thats the important point is that russia has an economy about the size of italy. we used to think they had the second best military in the world. we now know they have pretty much the second best military in the ukraine. so theyre not as -- theyre a little bit of a paper tiger in many ways. thats not9 true of china. chinas depth and economic c...

Faced. a formidable competitor lacking in ambition nor capability. jason: that was cia director william burns on the growing relationship between china and russia. chinas foreign ministry spokesperson responding friday saying, quote: for too long the u.s. has been whipping up the china threat theory and throwing dirty water at china. but lives re-- lies remain lies no matter how many times they are repeated. lets bring back congressman darrell issa. congressman, whats your take there? the words ...

Logistics, bad intelligence, lack of coordination between units, overcentralization and paucity of initiative on the part of junior officers and sergeants. if it is indeed history repeating itself with russia, is there a way in which to anticipate the outcome or how this ends? >> well, what max boot said is all correct. when i was multinational brigade commander in kosovo, i had a russian battalion which demonstrated all those issues max boot pointed out. but in this scenario, in this war in ukr...