180,000 men a fraction of russia s million man force. ukraine has 200 combat air force that s one seventh of russia s 1400. they would have a hard time in a head to head battle. now they are threatening diplomatic trouble for russia if they continue their aggression. this would be a problem for russia. the strong condemnation from countries around the world indicates russia is on the wrong side of history on this. russians are trying to turn the tables on president obama. a kremlin aid is quoted as saying if their invasion results in economic sanctions moscow will stop paying off loans to u.s. banks and might even drop the u.s. dollar as their reserve currency. thank you peter doocy live
alert because war could break out at any time. in many ways, these bellicose statements are nothing knew and the north korean military is always on high alert. around 70% of the million man force is based close to the dmz, poised to strike south korea at any time. but u.s. and south korean intelligence officials say that, in the coming months, they do expect some provocative actions from north korea. why? first of all, january 8th, we have kim jong-un s birthday and at 31, he has to show his own people he s tough enough for this job. also, in the first quarter of 2014, expecting joint military exercises between the u.s. and south korea, and the north koreans always see this as a provocation, and like to respond in kind. thirdly, of course, don t forget, that earlier in december, kim jong-un order the execution of his own uncle on charges of treason and shady
want us to stay? the scenes clearly, no. the ricky people don t us no. vice president of iraq said it would be an additional problem. we heard threats the radical group saying they would be targeted. brett: are you saying zero? i m saying, it s very unpopular inside iraq. brett: so abandon the training mission with the iraqi forces and no security. whole idea of having 3,000 there you would have them either as trainers are specifically as kind of targeted force that would go after insurgents that would essentially kill insurgent forces. brett: to charles point of protect that go force, there are commanders who have concerns about protecting 3,000 troops with just 3,000 troops. i think there are ways to do it and obviously, we re smart
frankly as earlier a year ago general lloyd austin had expressed a viewpoint we needed about 25,000 troops to stay on board to be able to complete all the missions that they believe they needed in supporting the iraqi security forces and maintaining security and stability. a number of months ago the administration put on the table 10,000-man force to negotiate with the malaki government. as a result of those negotiations, now we re down to 3,000 which is pretty inadequate. if we re truly going to supported the iraqis. the push from the white house is from the white house. there is complex negotiations going on to be sure. the fact of the matter we started out with 10 and we wound up with 3,000. suddenly the white house has agreed to that 3,000 as i
politically, do the iraqi people want us to stay? the scenes clearly, no. the ricky people don t us no. vice president of iraq said it would be an additional problem. we heard threats the radical group saying they would be targeted. brett: are you saying zero? i m saying, it s very unpopular inside iraq. brett: so abandon the training mission with the iraqi forces and no security. whole idea of having 3,000 there you would have them either as trainers are specifically as kind of targeted force that would go after insurgents that would essentially kill insurgent forces. brett: to charles point of protect that go force, there are commanders who have concerns about protecting 3,000 troops with just 3,000 troops. i think there are ways to do it and obviously, we re smart