to reign if you will not unlike what the israelis have been dealing with for 4,000 years. they have robust intelligence capability and there are rules that need to be established in these various nations that get them more on a military footing, some type of conscription, some type of mandatory military presence, but otologist nato membership need to be forward presenced and then you can have those discussions on what those capabilities look like. clearly you need to have defense capability, immediatedousive capabilities and long-range strike capabilities, and all of that is dependent upon very solid intelligence and intelligence that we can share. thank you so much, general marks. good to see you as always. amid all this horror comes so many displays of humanity, so
but if they are ukrainian and given to the ukrainians, i don t have a problem with it. let s talk about sanctions for a moment. it would seem as if global sanctions are rattling the economy there in russia in the last 24 hours, mcdonald s and coca-cola, they ve cut off business ties there. i want to play a part of what the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine said to my colleague savannah guthrie about vladimir putin s calculus with regard to that. i think everything we ve seen is that putin is not yet on a path to an off ramp and that he will double down. and the ukrainian people are the ones that are going to pay the price, but so are the russian people and i think that s important to remember. given russia s military footing right now, admiral, do you agree with that assessment, that putin is going to in fact double down? unfortunately i do. and we ve seen his play book. it called syria, craig, where he
of the capitol we now understand they punched through those russian lines. they move the russian forces back about 15 miles. the uk ministry of defense, just in the last three hours, said it is quite likely they will encircle and trap a group of russian soldiers near the city of irpin. that is where the civilians were being evacuated from earlier this week. in the eastern part of the country it s almost as if the russian army is taking out its military losses on the civilian population. the situation in mariupol remains absolute hell. that according to the mayor who says there s 100,000 civilians still trapped there. he calls them human hostages on the behalf of the russian military. you can see how that city now more than 80% of those buildings completely destroyed. civilians trapped unable to get out. that is the scene that at least two other ukrainian cities. the problem now for president zelenskyy as nato sits down for these extraordinary meetings is does he push for a cease-fire?
eyes. it s the story of rapid action with ongoing consequences. the desperation in afghanistan today, the withdrawal of american troops, the return to power of the taliban, it all began with a decision immediately after the 9/11 attacks to respond with war. we ll show you through the lens of the nbc news archives how america went from a quiet week in september 2001 to a military footing that would last for 20 years. along the way, we ll hear from a veteran of afghanistan and iraq, now congressman jason crow and we ll ask him the question that used to be almost taboo. was the decision to invade afghanistan made in too much haste? did we rush into war? our story begins on september 10, 2001. when president george w. bush used his fighting words for an altogether peaceful cause against a very different enemy. there are too many of our
provocation and they said that was pushing the korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war. you could look at it as the recommended effect. the intent was to show that the u.s. was on a military footing, and that it was available. they did six of the flyovers that goes to show how dense things have become here on the korean peninsula. this involved three different countries, and the b 1 b lancers took off in guam, flew over south korea flew near the demilitarized zone towards north and south korea, and launched