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Russia has moved in blood supplies and other medical aid near the border, a development seen as significant, because these supplies would be need to treat casualies joining us this morning is the pulitzer prize-winning historian, anne applebaum, who has lived in eastern europe. she s a staff writer for the atlantic and a senior fellow at the john hopkins school of advanced international studies. anne, good morning to you. thank you for being with us. there are always concerns when we re in this state, wooirting for something to happen, that certainly in the media, that we beat the drums of war. so i have to ask you, what s the diplomatic side to this? and is there way out? there are a number of people saying that putin is not really looking for war, he s looking to flex muscles and get concessions from the west. what s your take? you re absolutely right. there are divided views. ....
Number two, the number of troops, as it is reported, is not to that level anymore because of the casualies that we have incurred, and a huge number of them just leaving the battleground. even some of them a number of them surrendering, so all of this has contributed to how the taliban have managed to encircle kabul much faster than anybody would have possibly predict. so this is the assessment that i am getting from there. there is one thing for sure nobody in afghanistan for the majority of people, they do not want a taliban rule. they have lived it, and they know what it is like. but at the same time at this point it s a question of survival. it s a huge sense of confusion among people, because if you look at the past 40 years, you had the soviets for ten years. ....
Hawaii. a number of pitfalls in well entrenched military. the pentagon s limited ability to evacuate injured in the peninsula. also the 2,000 casualies to expect in the first day of fighting. is this something you worry about? yes, and let me say this. let me temper this a little bit. i do hope not because trump is so reasonable but reasonable national security people around him he gave an order to do something that didn t need to be done, they would stop it or so horrible. wait a second though. wait a second. i want to stop you there. it s the united states. he s the president of the united states. he gives an order. let me finish. what i m worried about is on the margins because there are all of these decisions you make as president about national security and using the military where you could exercise restraint or you could do it and those are the hard decisions. those are the hard decisions that presidents make. ....