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Commission on refugees has now announced that it is 1 million people so far. we have been hearing a lot of stories, and there you go it is different for different refugees. there are some harrowing stories of african and other nonwhite refugees, people who have been in ukraine studying, students, who are being stopped at the border, specifically the border with poland. talk about the difference here because it does seem that europe is pretty much welcoming ukrainian refugees. but we know, having dealt with syria and afghanistan, that it is not always the case if you are not a white person, in fact. and racism exists everywhere. right? that is the bottom line. and we are seeing these videos of folks being pushed off of trains. the people that i ve spoken to at the lviv train station, and these are individual interviews, say they have not seen this. but we have seen videos and we know this from the government the foreign minister is saying that he has established an ....
Important that we look at the targeting of civilians both in ukraine as we re seeing right now but also we ve seen these very tactics russia is using in ukraine that they ve used in places like syria and elsewhere and it s important that when we say never forget, we mean it for everywhere, not just places in europe. i can t speak to why some of my republican colleagues voted against this resolution. they tend to vote against everything. but i do think that it s important that this resolution was a bipartisan message showing that congress stands united with ukrainian people, just as we saw last night with the ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. at the state of the union, as first lady biden s guest but that we re also doing what we need to do to help the ukrainian people. that means, increasing the security assistance we re doing and getting humanitarian assistance to the people of ukraine and supporting europeans absorbing these refugees and ....
2,000 civilians have lost their lives. more than 800,000 refugees have fled the country with thousands more to follow putting europe on the brink of a major humanitarian crisis. all of this for the quest of a single man who is so obsessed with crushing ukraine he s willing to choke off his entire country from the rest of the developed world. at this stage, putin is so isolated that an overwhelming 141 nations voted at the u.n. today to condemn his invasion. only four countries took russia eastside in voting against the invasion, belarus syria, eritrea and north korea. despite the destruction, we see courageous scenes of resistance from the ukrainian people like these residents who were undeterred but an armed russian soldier who fired his weapon in the air. ....
We re not? part of the problem is since the end of the cold war, i think too many of us have really internalized the notion that the americans have no real peer and we can act at will and if something bad happens in the world, we can fix it because that s our nature. we re doers. we re not bystanders even though, you know, i mean, in the case of syria, i was arguing for an intervention to stop the bloodshed in syria, you know, 400 deaths ago, 400,000 deaths ago and yet, people said that one we don t feel strongly about. in this case, i think, you know, people have just replaced ukraine with sort of generic country and that we can just do this and they re not thinking through that, you know, this isn t the world the world isn t that new, that this is a different this is different than syria. this is different than them and ....
So i talk to friends and relatives in kyiv so they re telling me and telling others what is going on. they send pictures so information is available but sanitized by other narratives and forbidden to use words like war, like occupation. we re supposed to call it special operation. let me go to you tom, i ve been fascinated watching the back and forth with adam kinzinger that serves this nation in the united states military and a member of the united states congress and a pretty knowledgeable guy. i ve been surprised how many people are raising the prospect that nato should get involved, that nato should do something because that is world war iii. can you just sort of walk us through this why because it feels, i think it feels horrifying to a lot of americans to watch people suffer, although we did it in syria and chechnya and other places. but to watch people suffer and die without nato acting. can you just walk us through why ....