also he s living on the front lines not just an air war but a ground war, and it is about symbols of freedom and liberty and the free world standing up to tyranny. and it was great to see the bipartisan applause in this joint session of congress. we don t remember the america firsters of that first generation when churchill spoke. because after pearl harbor was bombed many of them shifted their tune. i think amy klobuchar who was on a second ago was right saying the extremes we shouldn t let them crowd out the broad bipartisan support there is in standing up for ukraine. he came here to say don t lose energy because you re a historian. that doesn t mean i know everything. winston churchill would have disagreed with you because when he came here what his fear was
there is not much more that can be done, it s a hard time to be fighting on the, ground and he is saying that we cannot do that. we need more weapons, we need more to fight, we need to continue to gain more ground. he made explicit ask their four offensive weapons. the patriots that were given, that are going to be given to ukraine, those are huge because they can shoot down and it s an air war now and they can shoot down you know, a lot of these cruise missiles. effectively, some of the best military tools that we have in the united states. they want these long range missiles to go into russia. to be more, offensive to take out tactical, supplies there. so what i heard was, we need to keep fighting and we need to keep being aggressive. this is not going to be a table for peace anytime soon. some people think that winter could be the time to launch that offensive because frozen ground is easier to drive tanks on that money ground. there are other advantages beside, obviously there wi
offensive weapons the patriots that we re going to be given to ukraine those are huge because they can shoot air war now he can shoot down a lot of these cruise missiles effectively they are some of the best military tools we have in the united states, but they want to use long range missiles to go into russia, to be more offensive, to take out tactical supplies there. so what i heard was, we need to keep fighting, we need to keeping aggressive this is not going to be a table for peace anytime soon. some people from the winter could be that time to launch the offensive, because frozen ground is easier to drive tanks on and muddy ground. there are other advantages beside obviously there s going to be some suffering and pain on the part of ukraine civilians, but technically, there is some talk that the winter could be weaponized by the ukrainians equally in terms of russian soldiers who did not want to be their last february, and last, march we re also going through this winter w
what we can do and you heard our president talk about it, put the cools in the hands of the ukrainians. they will get this job done. the fact is, there are some concern that maybe there is a line by which the russians or putin would react differently if the ukrainians receive some offensive capabilities. yeah, i am of the mind that we are past the point where we ought to worry about whether a particular weapons systems is provocative to the russians. they really have thrown the kitchen sink to use a professional military term at this invasion. putin doesn t have any other cards to play other than continuing with this air war and threatening a nuclear weapon which, in my view, highly unlikely he will use it. so the tools to put in the hands of the ukrainians are cyber
and a pledge from president biden to stand with ukraine for as long as it takes is a frigid winter. and the prospect that the war will grind to a costly stalemate. matt bradley has told us how there s been little movement in the last couple of weeks. where do you see things going forward? indeed, there are two combatants on the battlefield but the third is about to enter. and it is in fact winter. it will not discriminate between neither side of the firing line. it makes operations on the ground very, very difficult. the effect, jose, is to shift the momentum toward the air war which russia is winning simply because the ukrainians, at least at this point, don t have the means in a wonderful turn of phrase that president zelenskyy often uses, to close the skies over ukraine. one patriot battery is good. but it is not a full answer.