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That, the occupation of iraq was not as smooth as people would have liked and this is one of those areas where i think the lessons of iraq can be applied to what russia may be planning to do here. >> let's take a look at russia's military might compared to ukraine's. russia has more than ten times the military budget of ukraine. it has nearly four times the active personnel of ukraine. and russia has more than seven times the combat aircraft. so this really seems like a david versus goliath mismatch. the u.s. continues to say it won't put boots on the ground in ukraine. they've given the weapo...

Strength of the russian military, in terms of everything, people, airplanes, ships, the whole thing. how is it that you can encourage people, that people like you can go out and say, we can hold kyiv. we can hold ukraine against the russian military? >> well, this is a david versus goliath situation, right? we are there right now, being david. we are in terms, of being [inaudible] resistance and second, kyiv did not quite plan anything. right now, he will have to regroup. every day that we are buying ourselves, time, we are also buying it for our international partners. i think that the sancti...

Since the peace negotiations when there was the most vicious and most aggressive attack on kyiv in terms of the firearms and in terms of the air strikes that we experienced in five days. but you know what we learned in eight years? that putin is lying all the time. when he says peace, it means war. when he says okay, i'm withdrawing my troops, it means i'm grouping my troops. he said my army is not there, it's here to kill you. we don't trust him. that's why we fight so hard. we know exactly what is going to happen if he wins. we know exactly what the russian army will do to ourselves, our chi...

Emerging themes has been volodymyr zelenskyy. his courage, his ability to rally not only himself, his people, his nation but the world in support of him, david versus goliath or whatever analogy you want to use, the ukrainians have a good leader, interior lines of communication and warfare and he can operate in his own terrain. he knows the train better than the russians do when they are being quite effective. i know the ukrainian fighting spirit, he went to fight for the ukrainian army, that is his heritage and he was killed in combat by the russians and mark has lots is his name, he is a her...

Renaud was killed here sunday, passing through a checkpoint in irpin. he was killed and another american journalist with him was injured, in mariupol 400,000 are still stranded by russian forces, they are tightening their grip on the besieged port city, officials say 2200 people have been killed there. water, food, electricity all cut off, supposedly there is a convoy of aid coming in tomorrow, we'll see. and occupied city of a protest, an amazing one against russian troops, hundreds coming out, chants. swirling around one of the armor personnel carriers that russian soldier was in, he started...