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Increasing their objectives while decreasing their capability to support the operation. >> and then as russia pledges to target more populated areas, does this mean that there should be, you know, a speeding up or somehow world response should be expedited in the form of weaponry and fighter jets? >> i certainly believe that. and the announcement last night to potentially transfer some mig aircraft from poland to ukraine, i believe is a very good idea. but even thats going to take a couple of da...

Start a much, much bigger war. can you explain this to us? >> i can, stephanie. lets begin by saying we want to avoid ultimately, a global thermal nuclear war between the u.s. and russia. we can do that. we can avoid that, but still give the ukrainians with a need to fight this war. so my answer on where is the no fly zone, we can give the ukrainians the means to create that no-fly zone. weve done a lot of that. that is with stinger missiles providing potentially polish make 29s. these are very ...

Hugely overconfident russian military engaging with the reality of a really high earned, well equipped, highly motivated opponent. so, i think weve seen an error of overconfidence, as far as theyre concerned. and they have underestimated the ukrainians. thats led to tactical and operational failures in terms of logistics. in terms of economic control. but i think its also underline is that russia is just not used to doing this type of stuff. big, coordinated, air, land, maritime operations, on m...

Extraordinarily unlikely that the kind of weapons that are being used around the plant would have the capability to damage the fuel ports. but if hypothetically, any of those sports where to be damaged, or were to drain, you have a pretty large amount of spent fuel sitting in those polls. from the time of reactors being in operation. without cooling, there would be a serious risk, if that fuel melting down, potentially releasing extremely large amounts of radiation. i would emphasize here that n...

They havent been able to combine air and ground warfare, they havent been able to bring to bear their offensive cyber capability, they havent been able to break at a tactical level the ukrainian armed forces, they havent been able to paralyze the civilian leadership with civilian casualties. in essence, they havent yet taken a major city, not odesa which is vital, not kyiv, not kharkiv. the west is still relatively free of russian forces. by the way, they may have lost as many as 10% of their fi...

Someone like yourself who served in a combat zone understand the differences with these types of weapons a stinger versus a javelin i take it a javelin is surface-to-surface missile system and javelin, surface-to-air missile system? pete: correct. will: are there sophisticated operating knowledge or can a civilian use them effectively? pete: you have to have training no doubt. not as it is weeks and weeks training a good day of training how to load and operate. like the special force, they will ...

Nuclear war. nina dos santos reports on how the west is analyzing those threats. >> reporter: as russias tanks rolled into ukraine, vladimir putin made a threat not heard since the height of the cold war. >> translator: russias response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences never experienced in your history. >> reporter: then days later, he raised the alert level of the worlds largest nuclear arsenal. >> everyone knows that a third world war can only be nuclear. >> reporter: o...

Two or three years, you just need to go back two or three days. take a listen. >> biden, every time he gets up, he says they are a nuclear nation. he should say we are a nuclear nation. and you know, i rebuilt our whole nuclear arsenal. stronger, bigger, better than ever before. its better and its bigger than russia. he should say we are a nuclear nation, and we dont want war and we dont want to wipe out anything to do and we dont want to wipe out russia. this is the way he should be talking. in...

Turkey is providing fairy significant quantifies in spite of the fact theres a war. russia calls it something else, which in this case is helpful because its not a stay war. its a special military operation. these things have already been flown in. theres no reason to self-limit ourselves and not provide ukraine this critical capability that gives them the ability to knock out planes, logistics, planes on airfields as well as in the air and these ballistic missiles that have raining fire on citi...

Discussions to something wider. but i can assure you that the secretary will want us to be as responsive as possible but we are not tracking a request to expand the mission set for the 82nd right now. they have that capability should they be needed and would want to pitch in and help and in constant discussions with the polish authorities and state department and should there be a need for that you can bette the military will chip in and help. i would add and i dont want this at all to sound gra...