0 ukraine. at least 130,000 troops and that number has gone up and they continue to conduct live fire exercises. according to the white house, president biden reaffirmed his support. zelensky said there s no need to panic and he knows the situation better than president biden. according to the kremlin, putin told his french counterpart that the u.s. and nato had not addressed his fundamental concerns about security in the region. joining me from kyiv is my partner matt bradley, courtney kube is in the briefing room and will ask questions on our behalf. matt, let me start with you on what we re hearing from president zelensky. how much of this is about not a message to his own domestic audience, don t panic and attention elites, don t flee the country. yeah, chuck. it was interesting because he had the foreign press assembled there. i was one of them. all of the foreign press seemed to be asking variations on kind of the same question, how are you so relaxed and not reacting to this m
i heard secretary blinken saying there was no plan. there was a he detailed plan. they chose to tear it up and put a political constraint where we had a conditions based security imodel for how we were approaching the risk from terrorism in h afghanistan. just very different ways of dethinking about the problem set and so when you talk about this coup, this takeover, we tried to get all the players at the table. we had women s groups, ngos, the taliban, folks from the north, the afghan government itself, all at the table trying to get a transition where we could some day, maybe it would be 10 years, to get reconciliation among the afghans. they just permitted the taliban to he throw all of that away, to throw normal diplomacy away and allow terrorists to take over the country. we shouldn t recognize them and most importantly, what i most worry about, i think there may be american taxpayer dollars theaded to the taliban as well. we will pay them, bribe them,
what we would expect from our country, the united states of america, is to go after a network, go after isis k. that s the strategic implications. this was merely a tactical action. made us feel good about it but more must be done. well, let me ask you about that then, general. with far fewer resources on the ground now, no help from a friendly government there in kabul, how does the u.s. find and target extremists who might pose a threat in a more proactive way to prevent another attack? that s a very good question. in fact, it s much more difficult now. the idea of the over the horizon strikes is the a very complex problem set. and i wish we had really thought that through when we decided to to leave afghanistan. but there are ways to do it. but it s just much more difficult. you know, major general, we
and i found, frankly, jen psaki and the national security advisor noncommittal if you can t get them all out at this rate by august 31st, can you guarantee them safe passage? you were on the ground and spent time in kabul more than a year. how hard will it be to save these people? thank you for the question. this is a painfully difficult problem set. yes, the intent would define a way to get them back but there is no mechanism to bring them out of the inner land. if they didn t get out before the final push of the taliban, this is a tragic aspect of this scenario that is unfolding. everybody is trying to do their best but unfortunately, we re a
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