ukraine. is that ringing a distant bell for you remember that phrase to lend at least. once they called in 1941 when i came up with a way for the u.s. to go whole hog an army in the british and arming our allies to fight against nazis. fdr went to the white house, correspondents didn t in march 1994. he said these plain people, civilians as well as soldiers and airmen, women and girls as well as men and boys are fighting in the front line of civilization at this moment. they re holding that line fortitude. the british people need ships, they need planes from america. many tanks, guns, ammunition and supplies of all times. america, they will get tanks, guns, ammunition supplies of all-time. you said in the spring of 1941.
1994. he said these plain people, civilians as well as soldiers and airmen, women and girls as well as men and boys are fighting in the front line of civilization at this moment. they re holding that line fortitude. the british people need ships, they need planes from america. many tanks, guns, ammunition and supplies of all times. america, they will get tanks, guns, ammunition supplies of all-time. you said in the spring of 1941. that was fdr fighting against the nazis. explain to the press what it would mean. it s fighting with everything that we have to push germany back. that was land lease.
even told the military what they were in for, but ben hodges who used to be the commander of the u.s. army in europe thinks putin only has a short window of time before things are so mired down and he can t move in any direction with great force. what he said this morning. the next ten days are decisive. if we poor it on, the russians will run out of the ability to keep attacking. john: ten days, maybe 14 at the outside. if ukraine keeps the pressure up, russia will not be able to make more strategic moves. they will run through the ammunition supplies. pentagon told us they have not seen russia try to bring in more ammo. if ukraine can hold out and stop them over the next 5, 10, 14 days, and if russia does not resupply, more of a stalemate on the ground and maybe putin will want to talk. john: talking about what is the biden white house to help
just building an obstacle. so urban warfare is the most difficult, clean out a major i ve been there, i ve been to kyiv, to clean out that city and control it and hold it, you know, right now they estimate even if the russians won, it would take the entire russian military to occupy the country. this would be a sore for them for months and months and months. john: unless you can decapitate the government. that might have worked on day one. but the problem is the ukrainians have been building networks and ammunition supplies and stockpiling food and training and decentralized a lot of what they are doing. cutting off the head and the country will fall apart, dude, we are way past that. john: more problems the russians are having. this is the northern part of the country here, obviously, and the russian forces have come down this way from belarus, they are coming in the front here, and coming in from the northeast this way and even from the east.
there s a greater sense of personal freedom here that it s hard to imagine the taliban accepting. back in balkh district, the insurgents are formalising their own rival government, taking over official buildings. schools are open, though in other areas, girls are reportedly prevented from attending. street cleaners and some bureaucrats still turn up for work. they are overseen by a taliban mayor. he used to be in charge of ammunition supplies now, it s tax. all the money you are collecting, though, that s being used to fund the war, right? music plays. at the local radio station, the taliban have asserted their authority too banning non islamic music being played in public.