officials say there will be a situation where you have a number of cartels bringing migrants across the border in one area, that s taking resources away from border officials allowing drugs to go smuggled in other parts of the border. congressional aides say once title 42 ends the administration expects up to 15,000 migrant crossings a day, double the rate over the last couple of years. the dea has said most illegal drugs come across hidden in bulk loads on trucks driving through legal border crossings. the white house maintains it is working to confront this expected surge and the cartels that would exploit it, specifically with the dea focusing on the two cartels. i m concerned about the increase in illegal migration, concerned with human smuggling, i m concerned with drug smuggling. the dea has taken an approach where they are have established two counter threat
in and take over the completely the flattened territories. it s not a sophisticated way of doing war, but that s the way they do it, that seems to be their only capacity, but if the ukrainians gain the capacity, which they probably will with these new weapon systems, firing on russian forces from a greater distance, it will be much more difficult for russian forces to continue to advance. given what you said, it is no surprise then perhaps that president putin issues a counter threat, if you like, to aim at new targets if these launchers are delivered. what do we make of another threat like that? i presume you have to take it seriously? you have to take it seriously, but, you know, on the other hand, you can t let it affect your behaviour. putin engages in these threats from time to time, and what he wants is for the west to take him seriously and to be, in a sense,
game changer. interestingly, we were sort of hearing game changer. interestingly, we were sort of hearing about - were sort of hearing about hopes that severodonetsk will be reclaimed by the ukrainians, this could help in that sort of scenario? scenario? they absolutely would. and scenario? they absolutely would. and beyond - scenario? they absolutely - would. and beyond severodonetsk they would help across all of east ukraine. you know, the russians are so far, they win territory just russians are so far, they win territoryjust by bombing it indiscriminately with their artillery and then they move in and take over the completely flattened territories. it is not a sophisticated way of doing war, but that is the way they do it, that seems to be their only capacity, but if the ukrainians gain the capacity, which they probably will with his new weapon systems, firing on russian forces from a greater distance it will be much more difficult for russian forces to continue to advance by
the east and south of ukraine. so this could be a game changer. interestingly, we were sort of hearing about hopes that severodonetsk will be reclaimed by the ukrainians, these would help in that sort of scenario? they absolutely would,m they absolutely would, and beyond severodonetsk, they would help across all of east ukraine. you know, the russians are so far, they win territory just by bombing it indiscriminately with their artillery and then they move in and take over the completely, the flattened territories. it s not a sophisticated way of doing war, but that s the way they do it, that seems to be their only capacity, but if the ukrainians gain the capacity, which they probably will with these new weapon systems, of firing at russian forces from a greater distance, it s going to be much more difficult for russian forces to actually continue to advance. given what you said, it is no surprise then perhaps that president putin issues a counter threat, if you like, to aim at new