Standoff War News Today

Russians that they would pull back in the south. thats going to be hard, because the russians are quite good at this kind of standoff war you were discussing at the top of the show. >> and so one of the conversations, one of the calculations, one of the worries as you write smartly in the times about is if youre thinking about pushing putin, how hard do you push? because this war, you write about the worries that it would become more into nato territory, outside of the borders of ukraine. number...

Created a culture -- i was kidding, i did a thing on twitter before about the expression, shoot the messengers, not just an expression there. if you deliver bad news, if you speak truth to power, then truth becomes a weapon and then you become a threat. and so i think hes created a decision making environment where people are, for good reason, frightened to deliver bad news, plus to some extent theyre probably complicit. theres a degree obviously -- a significant degrees of corruption in how mil...

They see weapons, they call in an air strike and theyre basically obliterated. this dramatically affected how these people operate. the only risk is they would essentially become civilians and act as terrorists or insurgents. the reason why were in such a hurry to get people over there and to get the george bush aircraft carrier in place is we want to catch these people while theyre in fixed positions fighting fork for example, in the refinery in baiji. and act like force multipliers. then weve ...