ago. so, he s been emboldened to carry on. now, late in the game, everybody is going to try to get some equipment to ukraine, but it s good to be extremely difficult. especially if the russians then chopped the country in half by joining up forces coming from belarus in the north, and up from crimea in the south. if they link up, is going to be very difficult to get any kind of weapons or equipment to ukrainians, richard. tracy, as you look at that timing what colonel jack was just saying, why no are we getting these headlines coming out of other eu countries? is it about an intelligence issue? something the lord from the inside that s happening in either russia or ukraine? or is this more of politics outside of the conflict zone? i feel it s more about politics outside of the conflict zone. i wholeheartedly agree with colonel jacobs in that i do think anyway, some of this we
mentioned. the russell assault on ukraine. we re getting a clear picture of putin s strategy. i want to bring into people who can help us understand what s going on. retired u.s. army jack jacobs. recipient of the medal of honor. treacy war door, also joining us. former cia officer and fbi special agent. thank you both. i ll start with you, colonel jack. we are on the four here, colonel jack. day three, at least by the reports that we have watched, not necessarily what vladimir putin wanted, colonel jack. what is day for going to look like today? what are you going to be watching there? two things. there s going to be a lot of fighting in the city. i fell in the city and i can tell you it s extremely difficult. it s going to be sometime before they actually take the largest cities, particularly kyiv. but molotov cocktails are not a
much for joining us. please stay safe. joining us now is retired army crew on msnbc military analyst, jack jacobs and joel served as deputy secretary of state in the obama administration, gentlemen, thank you so much. colonel jack, i will start with you, your assessment at where this invasion stands militarily today and your assessment of the calls for a no fly zone, no military expert, but i feel that any idea of a no fly zone would require a direct military confrontation with russia aircrafts flying above the skies of ukraine. not something that america or western country is prepared to do at this time. i can t see that happening. if you are going to call for a no fly zone, you have to enforce it. it s just like any other rule. it doesn t matter if you are not going to enforce it, it won t exist. and that will require nato aircraft over the region. and i don t think it s unlikely that we are going to see that. i think we are going to
russians against nato and the united states and especially not nuclear forces. our colonel, we are out of time but i greatly appreciate your insights on this. we will be talking to you again i am sure in the coming days. thank you for all of you at home for joining us, for this hour, msnbc s breaking news coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine continues after the short break, don t go anywhere. anywhere mething epic! so we re giving every business, our best deals on every iphone - including the iphone 13 pro with 5g. that s the one with the amazing camera? yep! every business deserves it. like one s that re-opened! hi, we have an appointment. and every new business that just opened! like aromatherapy rugs! i ll take one in blue please! it s not complicated. at&t is giving new and existing business customers our best deals on every iphone.
something that i can t imagine, you know, as jack will say, there s no rational reason for him to do that, but putting aside that for a moment, can the intelligence community assess what his goals are? if we can understand what his goals are there s a way potential as president biden has done a fabulous job of deescalating situation. i would say that there is a blind spot perhaps but i think that that doesn t mean that there is not assessments and we don t have good intelligence about what his specific goals are. let s dial down, colonel jack, if you can, the fear factor. i have a lot of people coming to me and asking me if vladimir putin is going to take us into a nuclear war because of, of course, this increased threat, this special alert on nuclear forces that he raised after the sanctions were leveled against him. of course, you couple that with these reports of him kind of losing his mind, being increasingly isolated, nobody knows what he s thinking, who is he going advised by.