that they won t join nato. and if ukraine is willing to hand over the separatist areas that russia already controls, those are big issues, trace. but there has been the slightest movement that could be a hopeful sign. there was back to you in moments, jonathan. thank you . meantime, vice president kamala harris is in poland hoping to resolve diplomatic spat over a plan to equip ukraine with those big twenty nine combat jets. we re talking about 28 mig 29 combat jets. it s a move the pentagon calls high risk as you just heard jonathan hunt telling us . joining us now is matt shoemaker. he is a former intelligence officer with the defense intelligence agency now. it s always great to have you on . you know what ? i really don t quite get about this and you have the pentagon now saying, well, it might make things worse. and i m thinking, well, i m not sure about that . but the question is why are we willing to give the ukrainians the weapons and the needs necessities to shoot down russian
helicopters, but some of the higher combat jets that are dropping mu munitions from 30,000 feet. and we ve got them. we need to increase turkish drones so the ukrainians can you know, do with long convoys of russian vehicles attempting to attack and occupy cities like kyiv. so we are stepping up. i visited with the 82nd airborne when i was in poland near the border and i m quite convinced that our nato allies are doing what they can and we are doing what we can to facilitate large transfers of military equipment to the ukrainian forces. what is your understanding and what is the latest briefing you ve received, that you can share with us, on putin s state of mind of what he intends for ukraine? you know, when somebody
down russian combat jets, before even get to that there is the portion of the enemy air defenses stems. he would be bombing russian anti aircraft sites, he would be bombing them in russia, possibly belarus. you would be killing hundreds of russians. now maybe you think that won t trigger an all out war, between nato and russia, but i do, my sympathies are with ukrainians. i wish we could do this, but the risks of generating a war that could potentially lead to nuclear use are just too great. it could make the existing conflict look like god help us all. thank you for your analysis tonight, i appreciate it. so we are monitoring all developments in ukraine tonight and the rachel maddow show is right after the short break.
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