needs stop russian offensive in eastern ukraine which right now is enjoying some incremental success would be stopped in its tracks. 50 success would be stopped in its tracks. , ., ., ., ., tracks. so you would have no issue, tracks. so you would have no issue. john tracks. so you would have no issue, john of tracks. so you would have no issue, john of providing - tracks. so you would have no issue, john of providing the l issue, john of providing the sales which could be fired well into russia? into russia? correct all the weighted into russia? correct all the weighted think into russia? correct all the weighted think the - into russia? correct all the i weighted think the ukrainians would use those muscles for that purpose. what they would use those muscles forward be to offset the vast russian superiority at the present time in tanks, artillery, long distance muscles and planes, and they can therefore strike russian supplies as they enter ukraine, they could strike russian
concerned that we need to de-escalate this, the tension, quickly. there s been a lot of discussion about the fall of kyiv but occupying a city does not mean you break the will of the people and as the previous speaker mentioned, this will evolve into a guerrilla warfare kind of situation and there are 40 million ukrainians, 190,000 russians are the numbers are not of the side of the russians. has made huge miscalculation and has put his own troops and his future in harms way. i would ask you ve got to cut off our purchase of the oil and natural gas a begin production and ask others to flood the market to offset that loss. going to read something from dr. victor hansen, an op-ed that he wrote. he says that biden decision to cancel new pipelines and federal leases of anwar and and to give up well over 2 million barrels of daily
let me put it this way. talking about the neo? let me go back further. in january of this year were you of the opinion in your professional military judgment we should have maintained 2500 u.s. troops and support coalition effort and contractors in afghanistan? my assessment that i read in the opening statement remained consistent and did that professional military opinion change over the course of the next few months? not until presidential decision and i rendered my opinions and it was a full debate on all of that. once decisions are made i m expected to execute lawful orders. you ve made that very clear. when the troop levels were ordered to be drawn down to zero first stopping 650 as general mckenzie outlined was that your decision or the general s decision to draw down
but again, we provided our input and we certainly would have liked to have seen it go faster or sooner but again they had a number of things to think through as well. in terms of adjusting or why we chose to why the president chose to leave in the summer versus waiting until the next year, obviously things came into the calculus. when we came on board we were going to depart by may 1. we got more time to insure we could conduct a deliberate and safe and orderly retrograde but again, you know, the president made the decision that we would
commander-in-chief even though they disagree with him and faithfully execute those orders and setting an example to their chain of command. it is a person choice. bill: well said. thank you for your time and see what gives in the hearing coming up shortly here. it all stops with the commander-in-chief. general jack keane. waiting for the house hearing to begin. yesterday while that was happening there was a press conference at the white house. dana: jen psaki the white house press tech temporary. terry moran was an abc news reporter. we explained george stephanopolous asked biden, that turns out not to be true. moran pushes at the white house press briefing. these conversations are about a range of options about what the risk assessments are about every decision. of course there are individuals who come forward with a range of recommendations on what the right path forward looks like. ument matly regardless of the advice it is his decision.