battle field. these guys are not trained to fight a conventional fight much less deal within environmental threat threat like that. this is about taking it serious. i believe the biden administration has reported they are talking to putin and surrogates about the consequences here. i hope we are very direct about what those consequences would. it brings the united states and nato into it. not to use nuclear weapons, we would not do that, i don t even think we would use a significant amount of ground troops. largely destroying the military inside of ukraine. he knows that in so doing military people. he wants to win the war. if he uses a nuclear weapon it guarantees he loses. let s talk about another. sixty 60 minutes the president said last week that we would come to taiwan s defense if they
provoked dan attack. walking back some of that, clarification on that. biden shifted on the independence. the white house has clarified her trying to that u.s. policy has not changed. officials will see this as further evidence of walking away. i think the american people will scratch their head here and say what is going on. 1979, china and the united states saying it would governed. they would help taiwan defend itself. making no statement about defending themselves. in terms of our own troops. the strategic ambiguity.
look at what is happened. on repeated occasions, he has said if taiwan does not become a part of mainland china key will use the literary force to use control. all of this activity, he has violated the 1979 agreement to maintain space and stability. i think that it is quite appropriate. he said it four times already in response to a question. if you are going to attack taiwan, you are forcing me to respond militarily. i think that that is where we are anyway. that is where the president of the united states is. i quickly want you to comment on israel.
biden himself has stepped outside of the normal protocols by saying publicly what you re not supposed to publicly, or what past american presidents have been reluctant to say. if the chinese attack taiwan, the united states will step in. they try knot to say it because of the one china policy. but the air-raid drills were monday, routine defense exercises. while there is no links between the threats and the defensive moves, the possibility of a renewed crisis in the taiwan strait has been an issue for years. it is magnified now because of russia s vainvasion of ukraine. what message does xi jinping take from it? why wouldn t the united states want its highest ranking woman and the third ranking official, president, vice president, speaker of the house, to not poke the bear but say, this is important. it is a good question. the fact that president biden s first instinct when we asked him this question was to kind of signal that it is a bad idea shows how nervous they are about