are on ventilators and incubators and feeding tubes and rescued americans surrounded by russians with tanks parked on their street. it does run the gamut. we try not to say no a whole lot but the threat environment has to be able to allow to us operate at the same time. how do you actually do the things that you mentioned and i m sure a lot of the other things that you haven t? we the secret to dynamo is that we built the human and physical infrastructure needed to do rescue operations before the war. we have a and we kind of piled on to this problem set early on starting actually in january, during the build up and again all through february. how we actually do it, we d be here for a long time. it s a lot of homework, a lot of three-dimensional chess, it s about understanding the environment, both the russian
the afghanistan problem set, to use your words, continues. i think that it s fair to say, has just gotten worse? ? correct. all these places are definitely getting worse, not better. we have no shortage of people asking for hem. we get requests every single day from all over the place, focused mostly ukraine and afghanistan but other places, too. the hot spots around the world seem to be more problematic, not less problematic as time about that s kind of our hope and dream. nobody wakes up hoping to need to be evacuated or to become a refugee or any of those things. so it is a challenge for sure. indeed it is. brian stern, thank you for being with us. i very much appreciate your time. thank you very much.
we need to provide ukraine everything they ve asked for and that means a gift of expertise to be able to solve the problem, to be able to execute a land bridge into the interior of mariupol to begin the evacuation. we need to give them the wherewithal to hold the shoulders of an evacuation route to be able to do that. we need to provide an additional problem set to putin and his generals, and that s with a nato naval force off the coast. we need to provide the ukrainian people the vision of capital ships prepared to execute a very lethal attack on any russian naval assets. that is an opportunity to
where his decisions will take him, but we remain concerned about the range of options that he could pursue and we ll stay focussed on his problem set. and i ll turn to the chairman here for his thoughts. in terms of the size of the forces that are amassed right now, they could, i mean, it s potential, we don t think there s a decision as the sent already made that point, but sure, with 100,000 troops and you ve got combined arm formations, ground maneuver, artillery, rockets and the other parts that go with it, there s a potential that they could launch a very, very little warning. that s possible. and there s a wide scale of options that are available to russian leadership. the best option they should pick in my view is the diplomatic solution and resolve whatever differences they have. in terms of how this feels, helene, your second part of the
his decisions will take him, but we remain concerned about the range of options that he could pursue and will stay focused on his problem set. and i ll turn to the chairman for his thoughts. in terms of the size of the forces that are amassed right now, they could it s potential we don t think there s been a decision as the secretary already made that point, but sure with 100,000 troops and you ve got combined arms formations, ground maneuver, artillery, rockets and all of owes parts that go with it, there s a potential they could launch very, very little warning. that s possible. and there s a wide scale of options that are available to russian leadership, and the best option they should pick, in my view, is a diplomatic solution to resolve whatever differences they have. in terms of how this fields,