intelligence assessments, their logic right now. what did the fact that there will be more defense tells me they still believe the russian air threat is significant. but i think it is important to understand, and ask the question, why aren t the ukrainians flying their jets? they have such target rich environments. a 40-mile convoy, ballistic missile sites, artillery sites. what that tells me is the concern is that the russians have a pretty robust air defense system inside ukraine right now and they re afraid of those aircraft getting shot down. so when john kirby says for little value in higher risk, it may not only be the escalating risk. they could shoot those aircraft down pretty quick. so i think we re missing the story of why the ukrainian jets
children on the side. you see a doggy here, everybody is fleeing the russian occupied areas of southern ukraine and the combat zones in between and mostly everybody is from that besieged port city of mar poll. around i have spoken in the last half hour to a man who had scabs and bruises on his face. his apartment had been hit. rubble wielded him. everybody i spoke to says their home has been destroyed in the constant shelling. people want to get out for the most part here wither that privately-owned vehicles. some with smashed windows from artillery sites pounding mariupol for a month really. now, on top of that, there is this effort to try to do a bigger evacuation. we understand there is a convoy of some 52 buses the ukrainian
states of america. you never know where one of their missiles will go. if you are going to launch military operations, you have to do that anyway. make it clear that we re deadly serious. if you have to go to the military options, the first thing you do is take down air defenses and leadership communications with cyber attacks and let s call it special weapons. two, take out the nuclear and icbm cites and north korean artillery sites at the dmz. ideally you d do all of those things simultaneously. it s not going to happen simultaneously. you have to do them all pretty quickly though because otherwise, it s a true catastrophe all over that peninsula. that s my next question. the collateral. the fallout. it sounds like we mean what we say when we say that they re outmatched. clearly from everything that you re saying right there and from what ambassador bolton said
like it. it could be incentive for china to get strong on north korea. what do we do about south korea? they are terrified of the peninsula, 30 miles or 35 miles from the north korean border. most of south korean s population live in a striking range of missiles and worry about a collapse. they point out north korea is many times larger than east germany and many times poorer. i think that s right. the south koreans are anxious about their vulnerability to hardened artillery sites launching across the dmc and they are right to be concerned about that. i think the chinese case for the north korea policy shouldn t be accepted. there are a lot of variables treated as fixed.
what do we do about south korea? they are terrified of the peninsula, 30 miles or 35 miles from the north korean border. most of south korean s population live in a striking range of missiles and worry about a collapse. they point out north korea is many times larger than east germany and many times poorer. i think that s right. the south koreans are anxious about their vulnerability to hardened artillery sites launching across the dmc and they are right to be concerned about that. i think the chinese case for the north korea policy shouldn t be accepted. there are a lot of variables treated as fixed. if the north korean regime were to collapse, the united states