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Resistance stays strong enough, long enough to enable the government to survive and ukrainian forces to survive. ukrainians have said they'll do their own fighting. but they need support. >> general, we know that the u.s. government, president biden had been speaking with president zelenskyy and ukrainian officials overnight. i'm curious, give us your perspective what is happening in terms of any communication at all between u.s. military officials and their russian counterparts, in closed channels. >> well, i would suspect upon orders of the national command authority, general milley is tryin...

Surprised about the fight that ukraine is putting up? i know you say that the russian forces are not strong enough or en masse enough to take over the country but are you surprised? right now it what's happening on the ground in ukraine. >> somewhat last night when we talked, it was all in the balance in the initial strikes by russia were to sever the ukrainian military units one from another end to their national command authority, to sever zelenskyy's ability to communicate with the world and the military looks like russia was at least partially unsuccessful in that. the recurring answer mou...

As a military expert, but the soviet system which the ukrainians inherited really was a top down system in terms of command. to the extent now they have the ability for smaller units to operate more independently, given the various fronts they're having to deal with russian forces on, that actually may be something of an advantage. and certainly i think one of the things that the united states has tried -- >> go ahead. sorry. >> yeah, i think one of the things the united states has tried to do in terms of the training exercises and working with the ukrainian military is push some of that comma...

Kinds of things, wars and geopolitical posturing through the lens of diplomacy information, operations, military and economic levers of national power. our diplomatic level of national power is weak, it's ineffective and i will tell you the afghanistan debacle really has had lasting impact as we all suspected it would on our nation, our country and the world. when you think about-- two things, one is demonstrated incredible incompetence and weakness in our national command authority and number to it and messaged it to the world that there was an opportunity here and that's what putin sees. thi...

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