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Each day, everybody makes the same calculation. the same half solution to war. crossing the border may protect you from danger but it does not always protect you from fear. brendan kearney is a retired colonel in the us marine corps, previously chief of staff of the us marines in europe. he joins us from san francisco. thank you forjoining us. if vladimir putin's amen ukraine is to advance steadily and bombard cities into submission, he is surely succeeding, particularly in the south. would you agree? i would. certainly — would you agree? i would. certainly the _ would you agree? i would. ce...

Of russian tanks bearing down on that road, heading into the capital. now, they are facing a fierce fight. ukrainian forces are hunkered down in positions all along that road. you can see them there. presumably using javelins or some time of anti-tank missile to pick off the tanks one by one and creating some formidable resistance in the process. but the concern here is that obviously, this feeds into the hypothesis that russian forces are attempting to completely encircle the city. we heard this again from the mayor of kyiv himself. he said make no mistake about it. kyiv is the prize. and the...

Northwest out of kherson to try to encircle odesa. they have ships in the black sea. we haven't seen any maritime moves on odesa, but it certainly seems to be what they are considering doing. it would make sense that if they did that they would also try to come up on a ground perspective coming down from the north, and that appears to be what they're trying to do or why they went through kherson. they've had more progress in the south, but in the north they continue to be frustrated. they're not making as much progress on major population centers, certainly not kyiv, not kharkiv, not a town ca...

Would use chemical weapons. i'm wondering, do you still believe that? does that fit in with what you just said? that would be in the sick calculus of vladimir putin. >> yes, it would be what is the maj r issue. bombard the city, then what the troops try to march in. and if they ran into resistance, it's myer belief they would have done it. that would fit the template. >> appreciate your time as

And it's true that despite the horrors playing out in ukraine, this is not yet on the scale of aleppo or grozny. but it is — as quentin sommerville said — from the same russian playbook. it's this approach. if you don't have the manpower to take a city street by street, then they simply besiege it and starve and bombard people while conducting strikes on particularly hospitals, to make life unlivable in those cities and force a capitulation. this is particularly relevant because if putin was hoping for a quick victory in ukraine, that's not happened. they continue to be frustrated by a ver...