here, does putin have a lot of firepower or dry power waiting? it s extraordinary to see ukrainian civilians standing up and fighting for their country, but they are just civilians. couldn t putin just be rolling more and more their way in the coming days and weeks? while general mcafee is more qualified to answer that than i am. i do remind, history is full of stories of countries bravely fighting off of invaders. and then eventually succumbing to superior firepower. the polls in 1935, they managed to hold out for a month against both the soviets and the nazis, but after a month ultimately fell. so i think we have to be careful about the setbacks of the last few days, necessarily projecting the future. russian does have a lot of power, it does have a lot of brutality. i was there in chechnya in the early 2000s and saw what happened there. they are willing to do things that other countries are not
that s the big worry. in this case, we are told that this missile test was notified to the united states before the crisis erupted with ukraine and russia, that the u.s. knew it was coming. that the russians gave them the correct notification procedure, that they notified them it would happen in a four-hour period, in a four-hour window and that s exactly what happened earlier today. the test firing took place in kazakhstan, landing in a remote area. all of that said, you know, these things can these situations, any factor that s not fully understood can spin things out of control, so in this case the united states wanted to make it very clear they knew about this, it was preplanned. perhaps the unanswered question is couldn t putin have delayed it? preplanned or not, he decided to go ahead with it at this very tense time. anderson. and, barbara, i m curious to hear what you ve been hearing from the pentagon today on or