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Not have that ratio. they have it in terms of troops, but as you know, the russians have some significant technology. and the iranians do not have that technology. they only have the mix, they dont have a navy to speak of. so lacking in the technology and the people to be able to destroy and keep the russians out of the country. >> how worried are you about a conflict between u.s. and russia escalating directly? you have members of congress now talking openly about a proxy war. you have the defe...

Conflict between u.s. and russia escalating directly? you have members of congress now talking openly about a proxy war. you have the defense secretary lloyd austin going to keep, and seeing the goal now is to weaken russias military. how worried are you that this gets out of control? >> well, im not that worried. one of the reasons im not worried, we keep trying to make this a u.s. russia war. we must remember, there are 30 countries that makeup nato. so out of the other 29 countries, there in ...

The feeling that we will do whatever it takes — it feeds into a russian narrative, a narrative that vladimir putin has just repeated on his victory day speech, when he basically says, "we in russia are facing a war with the west, with nato." what lavrov — sergey lavrov, the foreign minister — calls a proxy war. thats the truth of whats happening now, isnt it? my belief is this is what putin and his... ..cabal have brought on. i fully agree that this has become much bigger than ukraine vers...

Invaded ukraine, 74 days ago, the united states has provided billions of dollars in military assistance to ukraine. it continues to do so, including more than 5500 javelin anti tank missiles, over 700 switchblade drones, 90 long-range weapons, known as howitzers. and 180,000 rounds to go along with them. and over 50 million rounds of small arms ammunition. but as we are hearing more and more, it sounds like some people believe americas mission is not just to protect ukraines sovereignty, rather ...

Every voter i talk to knows he endorsed me. i also try to explain why he endorsed me. i think theres good reasons for that as a republican. >> reporter: and all over the state we have seen or all over the district, we have seen signs that say mooney in giant letters and slightly smaller letters under that it says endorsed by donald trump. o the other race were watching closely is the republican primary for governor in nebraska. this is somewhat of a proxy war between the current republican gover...

People there and trying to rally them for what has been a failed war in ukraine. vladimir putin when he invaded ukraine again february 24th could never imagine that he would not be celebrating victory day commemorating that sacred day with a puppet regime in kyiv. but instead its ukrainian president zelenskyy walking the streets of kyiv delivering the most eloquent and poignant address inspiring his sit zens to carry on the fight against russia. vladimir putins war trying to frame it as a proxy ...

>> there is recognition by the administration that things are not getting there as quickly as they can. this is designed to expedite it. if you add presidential attention to it, things will get there faster. >> the new york times, quote, putin wants us to make it a proxy war. they are telling people, this is a repeat of the cold war, it is a colonial land grab, is this level of u.s. involvement playing into putins hands somehow? >> putin said it is a war against the united states if putin succee...

Vladimir putin has just repeated on his victory day speech, when he basically says, "we in russia are facing a war with the west, with nato." what lavrov — sergey lavrov, the foreign minister — calls a proxy war. thats the truth of whats happening now, isnt it? my belief is this is what putin and his... ..cabal have brought on. i fully agree that this has become much bigger than ukraine versus russia. i think most of us in the west over the last few years, particularly here in this country, ...

Its a colonial land grab. in your view, and ill start with you, ambassador mcfaul, anything that were doing like training and equipping the ukranians, doesnt that give putin or isnt putin going to use that to continue his propaganda, that yeah, this is really a proxy war between russia and nato? >> yeah, he will, joy, without question but hes been saying that for 15, 20 years. even when i was the ambassador he was saying were fight proxy wars against him so to those that believe him, those that ...

Right bestie voting, if not worse expanding beyond just helping ukrainians defend themselves as we heard there. sadly, this new reality could have dangerous consequences as you just mentioned with the threat of nuclear war, because it seems that there are more and more calls by current and past american officials and figures to change the nature of americas involvement. let me play with you with a former defensive retirees, cia the rector said about americas involvement in russia. >> we are enga...