two decades and know the consequences and gone out and they have taken that step anyway. cal was talking about the sense of disbelief in ukraine that this war has gone ahead. there s something of disbelief here in russia not only that putin has invaded but that he is invaded in such a max millist bay. this is an attack on ukraine from all directions and i think a lot of russians are looking around and asking, what is the exit strategy here? and a lot of them are asking what does this tell us that we didn t know prior about vladimir putin and about the risks, the gambles he is prepared to table in pursuit of his beliefs about ukraine being part of a larger russian sphere. i wonder, this i think leads a lot of people in this country to wonder, i think there s been
he was not a law reckless person. and many russians arc reconsidering their view of their leader in the last couple of days. because too many people, this invasion especially this maximalist invasion, this is not some small incursion into the donbas. this is an attack on ukraine in all directions. many russians are wondering, what are we doing here? what is the exit strategy? and the russians and prudent have been denying this the whole time. the u.s. saying that this is going to be a bigger invasion than anticipated. the russians very clear on saying that was hysterical, and not likely to happen. as you can see from this map here, those are confirmed attacks across russia. including the north in the south. we also have other attacks. but it s more an incursion into the east of ukraine. raf, great for joining us. thank you for saying again. now i want to gauge congressman john garamendi, on the armed services committee.
other things. the other alternative is somehow the ukrainians managed to overcome the russian supply convoys, the lack of fuel and food, the terrible state of their trucks and logistics and everything just rotten in the mud where it is and they have to pull out, but, a rational person having to retreat in those circumstances will do one thing, someone who is not rational, who is not employing logic and who is not thinking about a different kind of endgame, they are not going to seek an exit strategy on off ramp or any of these things that diplomats will try to provide putin with, so how do you convince him that he is over? as some of the experts have said there today, his political career hinges on and future survival his own survival hinges on making this where work. he cannot do the things he seems to be aiming to do. he cannot control ukraine long term, he cannot
we were not going to get involved in foreign conflicts, unless we had a clear sense of our aims, our missions, our exit strategy. we wouldn t in fact, donald trump did bomb aside in 2017, and it made no difference to the course of the war. so what happened in syria is tragic and appalling, but i don t believe that a different decision would ve been the right decision in 2013. we have to confront what we face now, that is what putin is doing in ukraine. we have to take all the measures we can to try to support the ukrainian people. in the meantime, millions of people are fleeing the country. some of them are eventually finding themselves on the border, on the edge of the channel i should say, in calais, i ve been sent back to all sorts of places to try to get their visas completed appropriately.
but will he have enough to simi circle anyway and suffocate the city stop arms from coming in and stop food from rations from coming in. if he does that and then starts moving in with weaponry and attacks, and he starts decapitating and literally killing zelenskyy, the klitschkos and the others are we going to sit on the side and say oops, we lost ukraine. the same guy that just addressed the european union and got a standing ovation when he said we will make you stronger, except me. we are just going to sit on the side and say oops, i wish we acted sooner. there is help and there is an exit strategy. the exit right now what we are seeing right now is the russians landing here and pushing forward. if you control the black sea, which i would i m not going to make that blue. i will make that yellow. if you can call the black sea this continued quest to shut off ukraine from the western world and all the aid and people that want to support them. you will be halfway there.