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Not far from the russian border deep in eastern ukraine, and ukrainians worry that an escalation there, an exchange of fire that suddenly causes an unusual number of casualties. or an errant mortar round that causes a high number of casualties could be used as a pretext for a much larger invasion. and they also are concerned about what is going on in the russian media. they listen to the russian broadcasts, and they hear a lot of talk about ukrainian aggression. how it is ukraine that is provoking this conflict. that it is the ukrainian government that is carrying out abuses, human rights abus...

It was because they simply had no choice. that was the only route afforded to them. it was a vulnerable position, a single runway that could be disabled with a single mortar round in a dense urban environment. we shouldn't have left bagram. the hindsight is 2020. once we saw what we saw on the ground we realized our troops were doing everything they possibly could. the position they were in was impossible. they shouldn't have been put in it and we need to insure why to insure it never happens again. >> bill: you took some heat for that mission. thank you for coming on with us. you mentioned th...

In country to defend it with the cap on the personnel that president biden gave. that was the only reason why our military chose to close that down. we should have continued that as a backup site. it would be a lot easier for our final presence to be at bagram than to be at the kabul airport. you mentioned it before, two runways, easier to defend perimeter. it is not in the middle of the city. where our troops are right now, if talks break down, if the taliban choose to advance on our forces, we are in a very vulnerable position. this is kind of a moment. we have a run away that could be disab...

Talks. —— derived from peace talks. they are hell—bent on making trouble and there was clearly some threat intelligence over the past few days picked up by the americans and their allies that isis, isis k or iskp are going to carry out an attack at the airport and you have to look at the pictures and imagine what a single mortar round, suicide bomber, truck, or attack were due to the incredibly volatile situation in the airport which is why no amount of g7 pressure on president biden will change the fact that if the caliban say august 31 is the deadline, that is the deadline and if the u...

Taliban takeover and are recruiting more people to their cause to try and make life as difficult as possible for a taliban ruled afghanistan. in a way it has been regulars there hasn't so far been any disruption of that sort to the airport operation. there are two threats to this entire evacuation. that is the most immediate one, that of an attacker, either a suicide bomber or a lodging of a mortar round under the runway, and the other of course is that if the us were to decide that it was going to stay on after the august 31 deadline without taliban compliance, then you are into a whole new r...