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And he also took crimea in 2014. we knew he would come from his northeast approach. we believe he may from russia. the big wildcard is belarus, a client state of russia. which gave him another approach that maybe zelensky antigen were not anticipating. it was two tank columns, one from belarus. and affectively trying to make an end-run on kyiv as quickly as possible. they stopped and pause. they thought preparatory fires would create an environment where they could go. they want to get to the airfield. if you can get to the airfield you can unload troops. cargo ship loads of companies of troop...

To cultivate and maintain positive relations. you do not want to be used as an instrument against the powerful neighbor. so that's, i'm not making a pro-vladimir putin argument. what i am saying though is the u.s. national security establishment has sent out a client state an ally out against a very dangerous adversary and that's what we're looking at right now. this continued push against putin on his own borders this is in large part what has led us lehr to this moment. >> jesse: saying that as a buffer state, you know, ukraine is in between russia, petty powerful and the europeans, also pre...

When he they're handing out weapons and telling people to make molotov cocktails. street fight with trained troops is different things than civilians attempting to defend the cap talg tank columns arriving from two sides supported by air support you can have all the guns you want at the end of the day. how many troops are in this capital city is not completely clear at this point. obviously there are some. you could call it a bluff or a ruse. they thought they could punch through the donbas they their plan, combat power right here and the focus of the effort is right here vladimir putin knows ...

Notably belarus still a client state of it russia. we will learn more about why they are significant because ever thage not around after the soviet union fell obviously. nato came about after the end of world war ii. nato has expanded since then. that's what vladimir putin claims is a threat to his existence. meant to hold back soviet expansion. the one entity that has expanded nato expanded. this is what vladimir putin looked at in 2004 into the baltic states into he is stonia, latvia and lithuania on the border of russia. what vladimir putin is claiming right now is should ukraine attempt to...

Doesn't want to get bogged down in iraq like we have seen where these guerrilla warfare scenarios go on for months and months. sometimes years and years. i think that's the last thing they want here. is there possibility here that may be both sides are looking for an off-ramp? >> i don't think so. the nato membership was always a ruse. ukraine can't be admitted to nato unless all 30 members vote for it and there was nowhere near unanimity to permitting it. russia wants ukraine to be -- putin wants ukraine to be a russian client state. he was threatened by democracy in ukraine. he sees it in hi...