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Russians that they would pull back in the south. that's going to be hard, because the russians are quite good at this kind of standoff war you were discussing at the top of the show. >> and so one of the conversations, one of the calculations, one of the worries as you write smartly in the times about is if you're thinking about pushing putin, how hard do you push? because this war, you write about the worries that it would become more into nato territory, outside of the borders of ukraine. number two, listen to the ranking reason and the house foreign affairs committee having conversations we...

Created a culture -- i was kidding, i did a thing on twitter before about the expression, shoot the messengers, not just an expression there. if you deliver bad news, if you speak truth to power, then truth becomes a weapon and then you become a threat. and so i think he's created a decision making environment where people are, for good reason, frightened to deliver bad news, plus to some extent they're probably complicit. there's a degree obviously -- a significant degrees of corruption in how military rubles have been siphoned off into personal bank accounts. nobody is in a position in some ...

They see weapons, they call in an air strike and they're basically obliterated. this dramatically affected how these people operate. the only risk is they would essentially become civilians and act as terrorists or insurgents. the reason why we're in such a hurry to get people over there and to get the george bush aircraft carrier in place is we want to catch these people while they're in fixed positions fighting fork for example, in the refinery in baiji. and act like force multipliers. then we've got a different problem. >> one more time, the possibility of americans on the ground being invo...