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So the fighting continues on the ground in ukraine. commander of u.s. strategic command which oversees the nuclear arsenal in the united states is saying they are facing something they have never faced. >> we are witnessing one of the largest shifts that geo strategic power has ever witnessed. we face two nuclear peers who have the capability to escalate to any level of violence in any domain worldwide with any in straou -- instrument of power. >> bianna golodryga. two near peers. obviously the ...

Power to help alleviate this disastrous, terrible, immoral series of war crimes that we are seeing in ukraine. i think this makes enormous sense. i hope it happens today. >> well, again, just for historical context, this is exactly what we did with britain from the late -- late 1940 all the way until december 41 when we were in the war, right. it was called lend/lease. it was how we stayed out of the war but still helped our british allies. >> exactly right, joe. it is appeased with continuing t...

Have the capability to remove the russians from ukraine. theyll see some of the major equipment being defeated now. the counterattacks will be quite local. >> how do you expect the situation to develop? >> well, i think the conversation about peace talks has some way to go. but both sides are beginning to see they have less to gain by fighting. and for all that there there will be major and political and practical issues to come to coming towards some cease-fire or peace settlement. but i expect...

It gives reassurance to the poles and tells putin he is not going to be necessarily so successful in trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons. >> how would that work? >> well, they are an anti-short-range ballistic missile capability. they can intercept many of the missiles hes got deployed already. hes put into russia and into belarus. so if there were to be a launch in some provocative way by mr. putin to attempt to intimidate us, they have a very good probability of intercepting a russian ...

War iii, and a war with the russians and we have heard those comments by washington, but could putin escalate things to the point where you have to put the past comments by the wayside and try to prevent this destruction from getting totally out of hand? >> yeah, and i just heard the great reporter christiane amanpour about the same thing about the no-fly zone, and unfortunately, jim, comparing it to the no-fly zones in northern and southern iraq, and the balkans is a ludicrous example, because ...

What we are seeing now is a limited kind of number of refugees being accepted. which in a way, i very much welcome, and i wish that there was a similar kind of approach to other people fleeing conflicts. >> you have taken in two refugees yourself and i think eritrea refugees im right in saying, professor, what are you planning to do as far as ukrainian refugees are concerned, do you have a capability to look after more? >> i have taken both in my home and it has been quite an amazing experience,...

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States in germany an ramstein. >> absolutely. i think that capability exists in our community wide and we should be giving them. we should have been giving them this a month ago when we saw the saber started rattleling. one of the things we also need to start looking at is preparing the ukrainians for a sustained gorilla-type war and we did that in afghanistan very successfully when we supported and trained people and in nicaragua where we were forced to send the people the intelligence and trai...

This sort _ so many parallels with syria, where this sort of— so many parallels with syria, where this sort of attack went on for months — this sort of attack went on for months and years, and from syria, it is very— months and years, and from syria, it is very clear — months and years, and from syria, it is very clear that in quite a number of cases. _ is very clear that in quite a number of cases, there was deliberate targeting of civilian facilities in order— targeting of civilian f...

Senseless war against an independent sovereign nation, ukraine. >> the brutality here increases, the united states will contemplate and consider every possible range of actions along with our nato allies. >> our involvement in this war is going to increase if their tactics targeting civilians also increase. >> and just a short time ago, russias military said it had launched another round of hypersonic missiles on ukrainian facilities, hitting a fuel depot near the black sea port. nbc news is sti...