feel as if we are with them, right? that the rest of the world is with them or do they feel as if they are fighting alone. he said right now they feel supporting because they re getting the weapons and resources that they need, the sanctions are being leveled against the russians but that could literally, colonel, as you put it change on a dime if those things stop and they feel as if they re left to fend for themselves and that could really kind of change the course of this war. the two of you are going to stick with me because we are going to have an important conversation coming up talking about the intelligence failures that we re seeing, the intelligence gaps i should say. coming up, the conversation, is he crazy? is he ill? is he still a rational actor? breaking down vladimir putin s current state of mind. stick with me. current statofe mind. stick with me.
you for being with us. i want to bring into the conversation retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs, he s a recipient of the medal of honor forest service during the vietnam war. colonel jack, as always, thank you for being with us. only take a minute to respond to what mr. syringe only said there about this actually being interest attack, your thoughts? it s easy to conclude that it is. we use that term reckless, i can t think of about a term too used it s absolutely perfect. russian forces are fully trained, but they are poorly trained, the leaders are poorly trained, and they ve demonstrated to be nothing, if not reckless, ruthless, and focus on achieving the military objectives that have been set for them by moscow. in doing that, you can expect there for these kinds of attacks. don t forget, this is an invasion force. ukraine is a sovereign country. and as a result of that, it s
information to ukrainians on the ground. in terms of what the russian troop movements look like. and in terms of what the russians next move will be. i think that s going to be very difficult. don t know what communications are like on the ground. and i don t know what communications we have open right now with our sources and assets on the ground. colonel jack, if you look at the streets of what, 5000 year old city, kyiv? and as vladimir putin s forces try to, as you re just describing, i bifurcate that city, describe to us how difficult it might be? just because this is not a great type city. this is a city, as i was just mentioning, very old. a lot of different types of streets. it makes it probably easier for many of the locals to defend. block by block. yes, like i said a, fighting in cities is difficult. one of the things working in the russians s favor however,
and the world. joined now by colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst. colonel jack, this is enough for a one hour program, but i want to start with this, we just got a satellite picture over the weekend. today seeing more forces, russian forces, now closing in to kyiv and the areas that at the moment have been unable to take and or hold. what do you make of this satellite image that we have recently received? there s a lot of analysis that the russians thought it would be a lot easier than it turned out to be. they were right. there is no doubt about the fact that armored vehicles are going to make an extremely difficult for ukrainians to defend the approaches to the city. however, our vehicles are not all of that useful in the city. as the russians themselves know in their defensive stalingrad during the second world war. now the russians initially