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Weapons. what is your reaction? well, first of all, this is absolutely terrifying. even a small tactical nuclear weapon, a fraction the size of hiroshima and nagasaki not to be taken lightly, not just the primary effects of the blast and the heat wave, but the secondary effects of radioactive fallout, radiation and panic throughout the world ,the economic distress, the humanitarian crisis will be many fold. there's a way around this . and if the president has the courage to take risks and blowback, here's what he should do first of all, important to understand how russian nuclear command works...

By local battlefield commanders. now we have great intelligence and a great understanding of the command chronologies. a lot of these units and these characters from the general staff, head of the general staff, general grapheme up all the way down to the colonel. the lower general and colonel ranks. we need to make those names public. we need to say if you participate in a nuclear release, we're going to make you famous. you're not going to be able to slink back into obscurity or plead that . i was just following orders. nuremberg defense. the tried. we are going to we the world are going to ...

Was providing false supports to very putin because everybody wants to look good in peacetime but when you put forces on the ground you support them logistically over time and get stuff blown up you find out the reality whether you have the sustainment in place, battlefield commanders are technically competent and relevant. it is clear that the russians overestimated their own abilities. they've been living a lie for the last 30 or 40 years and the ukrainians have stepped up to the plate. for them it is a war of survival for the russians, forces don't know why they are there, unprovoked aggress...

This is what they said. >> translator: peace negotiations should be among afghans and for afghans. we should not wait for pakistan, iran, russia, or america to bring peace to afghanistan. if people from government die, they are afghans. if taliban dirks they are afghans. foreign countries are playing in afghanistan to weaken islam, he says. >> reporter: brooke, there have been some efforts by the taliban to do -- to join back channel diplomatic talks even with american officials. but this is the first time really we have been hearing from battlefield commanders. i think that will be seized upo...

>> conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables will guide our strategy from now on. >> chris: how open ended is that commitment? how many troops is the president prepared to send to afghanistan? along as he prepared to keep them there? >> the president has been clear that this is a dramatic shift in terms of military strategy. were shifting from a time-based strategy that hate troop ceiling levels to now a condition based strategies which will be dictated by conditions on the ground informed by battlefield commanders. he has delegated significant authority to secretary mattis to set tro...