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After the series of military supposedly military exercises that were going on around ukraine were supposedly starting to wind down. there is a big nuclear exercise that president putin announced at the last minute. they showed off the entire arsenal there in remote parts of the country. and tonight on the main news shows the talkshow, the most popular the kremlins favorite show host was showing those weapons off again saying they had the capability to wipe out the united states and nato together...

Taking a pummeling. to the russian-speaking people of this region, it must feel as if these russian soldiers are guilty of frat racide. john irvine, itv news, in eastern ukraine. for more, im joined now by malcolm davis from the australian strategic policy institute. he is a senior analyst at that think tank, working on defense strategy and capability. thanks for rejoining us to discuss this. what struck me is you had predicted russian tactics and territorial moves with remarkable accuracy dur...

I would imagine these are the two minute that vladimir putin is not happy with these days when you talk about the supply ability and how things are going. >> thats right. these are his two top generals. one that general milley talks to on a regular basis and has a good relationship with. they likely oversold to putin the capability that they would have to move in the ukraine, take it down in 48 at best 72 hours with little opposition and install a new leader, which is their political objective. ...

How much could those planes help the ukrainians, though? >> they could help them quite a bit. the mig-29s that were talking about are not the newest generation of aircraft, but they are a very capable aircraft. theyre basically a multirole fighter and theyre designed to provide both air to air combat capability as well as an air to ground combat capability. so these aircraft could be very useful against that infamous 40-mile-long convoy that is northwest of kyiv. it could also serve to go after ...

Important things we can do is to flow forces to you those eastern members of nato, the baltic states, romania, poland in particular, and not just any forces, heavy forces, armored forces, aircraft, so that we establish a credible capability that putin does not want to challenge. thats the only way you can keep this war from spreading. >> former national security adviser steven hadley, thank you very much for coming on with your insight this morning. >> thank you so much. >> as always, ambassador...

Above their country. so very important and a signal, not a signal, i mean, a direct statement that aid coming in, whether it is certainly military aid and the russians have said this, that any military aid coming in will be seen as a legitimate target. vague as to whether or not it would be considered a legitimate target when still on nato soil. the moment it crosses the border of ukraine as far as russians are concerned, it would be fair game for continued strikes. the real issue would be what ...

Putin right now. because you dont know economically how warm works out in the short term, and it often isnt good for regular people. but putin has something else in mind, hes got empire building in mind, here. >> he has, he has, as you just mentioned, when you talk about the price of crude, there is this terrible reality that the higher the price of crude goes, the more money russia makes. because, of course, it is an energy supplier that only go so far. if the currency is taking a beating, fran...

The senior administration today who held a conference call with the reporters, is that biden white house is not focused so much on what vladimir putin says. theyre focused on what he does. that has been the case since the start of the crisis -- hes been radically transparent and declassifying intelligence and sharing it with the american people and the world really. and trying to disclose with putin was up two to bind more time for diplomacy to work. it doesnt appear that the diplomatic avenues ...

And you just dont know if the sanctions would have any deterrent effect. >> if we would have sum cost many, many months ago, i dont think that would have had the capability. simon. >> yeah, the secretary said yesterday hed cancel his meeting with lavrov, but you guys remain open to diplomacy. so what exactly would you want to see from russia in order to reschedule the meeting, to resume some kind of diplomacy, diplomatic talks between? and just an additional one. you sort of, this is the last, t...