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Russia invades ukraine. and one republican congressman blames russias military buildup on the withdrawal from afghanistan. >> i think this all started, margaret, with afghanistan. and the unconditional surrender to the taliban when he saw weakness, weakness invites aggression. we saw that with chamberlain, hitler, reagan talked about peace or strength. >> i think our work in the senate and president bidens work to strength and deterrence is what is hopefully going to succeed, but im gravely conc...

Hes preparing for an invasion. these medical teams, these units with blood plasma shows that hes preparing for casualties. and you have to ask the question, what has provoked this and why is putin doing this? hes always wanted ukraine, but why now? is it politically opportunistic of you to conclude that part of the answer is that putin, and im quoting you now, "smells weakness in the biden administration"? im just wondering on what basis you think that is true? well, for a couple of reasons, and...

>> again, so it was never achieved after the civil war, because lincoln was killed. you talk about world war i, it also was not achieved because wilson godt it a little bit wrog too. you write how after world war ii might be the example where lincolns ideals were most fully realized. >> the occupations of germany and japan, known as the good occupations today, are virtually exemplary in terms of that specific intentional combination of unconditional surrender and magnanimous peace. building our ...

Win peace after you win a civil war, how you reunite a nation. he does it by embracing and inventing a leadership style focused on reconciliation. thats what i was able to put together and look at the after life of the idea. >> you identify, what is so great about this book, this is the consistent through line through the whole book, you come away having learned something, learned this, it is based on two things, he has a two-part plan for peace. what is that? >> unconditional surrender, followe...

Thats what lincoln understood. thats what the marshall plan did. >> do it like you mean it. act like you mean it. now, i asked you this yesterday after reading this knowing we were going to talk about it, this book focuses primarily on military conflicts and civil war and world war i and world war ii. can you apply these two lincoln lessons, we have a minute left, unconditional surrender and being magnanimous to political conflict. im not saying january 6th was a civil war, but it is a conflict ...

And i dont think its even... i think its devoid of politics. i get briefed by analysts who agree with my assessment. you know, with the fall of afghanistan and the unconditional surrender, the way it was done looked very weak, it projected weakness, and nord stream ii waving those sanctions at congress, that i led the effort to sanction nord stream ii, and then the president waived those sanctions in may. remember, this build—up starting in march, he waived the sanctions in may and by august, ...

Takes, this is how this war will end. because of his nuclear saber rattling there will be a russian nuclear demilitarization. they will return crimea. there will be an unconditional surrender to zelenskyy and removal of their troops from ukraine. in my opinion there should be a demilitarized zone along all russian borders. this needs to be the way it ends no matter how long it takes and maybe add onto that as we see those sanctions going on with banks and currency and swift. we probably need to ...

Build them back up. resumption of the federal reunion, end to slavery of all time and refuse to accept a cease-fire before surrender. those were his preconditions. on everything else, though, lincoln is will be to be flexible. he focuses on the great goals, and the details hes willing to be enormously flexible. >> if youre wondering what the opposite of unconditional surrender is, you write about this, you talk about world war i, germany was never -- we really, really lost -- >> thats exactly ri...

It requires unconditional surrender and then building our enemies back up, recognizing that even in the middle of a civil war, there is more that unites us than divides us as americans. lincoln was able to achieve that. even though he couldnt achieve his vision, it lived on and became the peace that was the marshall plan, the table setter for what were seeing today. >> thank you both for joining us for this discussion. congrats again on your book, john. >> thanks. canada trying to turn back tr...

Saying, there can be no question of any surrender or putting down arms. we have informed the russian side about it. ukraines standing firm despite the other devastation that russia has inflicted on mariupol, today bombing an art school where the city council says 400 people may have been sheltering underneath it. that school across from a theater that was bombed that was week that was also being used as a shelter. missing are still missing in the rubble there. 800 are unaccounted for. yet this a...