corner so we don t have a european war what s the we need to ask ourselves what are they thinking, how can we help them out of the corner. putin laid this out. he wrote it clearly in a speech he wrote last year where he talked about ukraine is part of russia and i feel, you know, i feel he clearly felt the russian-ification of that part of the world. any thoughts? i think the proposals revealed from spain to russia speak to the russian anxiety about security. they say, we will never station u.s. troops permanently in ukraine. it is not promising ukraine will never be a nato member, you can t promise that. it is speaking to the concern. one thing, there are polls in russia that are pretty reliable show that the younger you are,
3,000 troops to europe. this is not something that vladimir putin or any of the military want to see. they don t want to see f-35s on their borders. this has really turned out to be the opposite of what vladimir putin was hoping for. my god, you look at all of the troops that are now moving to eastern europe. they have to know if they go in they re going to see even more. you know, joe, i think putin must have calculated that biden was the person in some ways that his biography suggests. he is a career politician, he s careless, he talks too much, he s good old joe biden and putin thought he could roll him. biden has been resolute in the last weeks. he started by saying the right thing, we need to do this together with nato allies.
extraordinarily unpopular question with an extraordinarily unpopular uh-oh. it is just questions we don t ask in america for the most part. here is a country that lost 27 million people in world war ii. 27 million people slaughtered in world war ii because of an invasion. they lost their empire in 1991 and you have people talking about expanding nato into ukraine, a region that, yes, most russians still consider to be a part of sort of this greater soviet state. you look at ukraine and it is like a knife that cuts straight into the heart of russia. i always think about when we re lecturing israel, when we have people that want to win nobel prizes for peace and are
majority leader unless he shows me he is behind donald trump and the america first agenda as he put it. donald trump still wields that power. we ll see how it plays out. meanwhile, president biden is ordering 3,000 troops into eastern europe to reinforce nato allies there. the pentagon says the troops are not going to fight in ukraine but are part of america s commitment to nato as russia continues the buildup near the ukrainian border. let s bring in yamiche who will be joining us soon. it is great to see you. talk about this deployment of 3,000 troops. some are already europe already, being moved around and deployed to different countries. what was the idea there? do they have the sense the approach they re taking, criticized by some, may be
i think it was an a.p. poll and it is telling as a former republican, do you identify yourself as a supporter of trump or supporter of republicans. 55% identified as a supporter of donald trump and 35% as a republican. you could tell because it was a pro-russia, anti-nato, pro-spending party. now it is reversed. 55% now identify themselves as a republican and next 35% as supporters of donald trump. he sees the support starting to move away and going to ron desantis and maybe a few others and he s panicking. that s why we had the extreme statements this weekend. i think he is nervous. he sees this movement of voters. i wouldn t say he s toxic, but he s become problematic for