somalia, from afghanistan to yemen and libya, that should have been stopped long time ago. to tell you the truth, if tyranny had at least once received such a response to the war raged, it would have ceased to exist. zelenskyy effectively saying, why do you exist, if not to do something in this moment, u.n. security council? it is a good question. of course, the dilemma is russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, so nothing gets out of there on this issue. and china. yeah. and it s been that way for quite some time. since it was formed. david, what does the united nations do? what does nato do? what does the west do? every night, seeing mass atrocities just streaming across our televisions, across our phones, across our ipads. what do we do? you ll see more.
of course, once again, let me give context here. ukraine s defense budget, $6 billion. russia s, $60 billion. united states of america, $800 billion. by the way, since the beginning of the war, germany s defense budget now going to be higher than russia s. exactly. so russia, even though they spend a lot for a poor country on defense, they clearly didn t have the systems in place for training. how about all these soldiers that went there, didn t even know they were going. how do you not have a clear mission? how do you not have a unity? this is also laziness on the face of putin, taking for face value what your generals told him, which is always, we re ready. he s surrounded himself with sycophants who say what he wants to hear. even with an american scale defense budget, look what happened in afghanistan, iraq, and so on.
people think the last election was stolen, et cetera, et cetera. he thought this was the moment he could seize on the american nervousness, american retreat, after, let s face it, real disasters in afghanistan and iraq and elsewhere, and a trump presidency. he thought, this was the moment, and it s gone awry. but he s willing to shed a lot of blood to correct it. david, you were talking a few moments ago about his dependence on convincing the russian people that they are in the right, russia is in the right in ukraine, and most of what they see or have heard is fake. what is it about the russian population today, that they seem to have an inferiority complex about the west? do you have three hours? this is a big theme that has to do with geography and history and all the rest. but the fact is, vladimir putin
was assigned their cases while employed as a federal public defender. from 2005 to 2007, according to the ap, quote, jackson never traveled to gitmo to meet the men. instead, her role was research and writing. the ap continue, the four men jackson represented were alleged to have been al qaeda bomb experts, taliban intelligent officer, a man trained to fight forces in afghanistan, and a farmer associated with the taliban. none was tried, much less convicted by the military commissions set up to deal with detainees. even those who were eventually charged has those charges dropped. all were eventually released. jackson initially was assigned to gitmo cases as a public defender. she has said, she continued to work on one of the cases when she moveivate practice
we have to find ways to alleviate the pressure. i know he s focused on that. he s also focused on ukraine. i think he has done a good job thus far in that leadership. jaime, here is what republican senator tom cotton said about judge ketanji brown jackson on the senate floor yesterday. judge jackson represented four terrorists as a public defender, one whom she continues to represent in private practice voluntarily. she claimed the terrorists never had affiliation with the taliban and al qaeda. she accused the bush administration and american soldiers of war crimes. one of her clients designed the prototype shoe bomb used in an unsuccessful attempt to blow up a passenger airplane. another planned and executed a rocket attack on u.s. forces in afghanistan. a third was arrested and arraigned on an al qaeda s explosives training camp.