last night. a primetime town hall on fox news. now, you might be wondering, why do they give that to him? he is running is a democrat for president. because he is their favorite democrat. why? i don t know. i mean, there are a lot of options. is it a shared love of conspiracy theories? maybe. is a newfound love for the kennedy family? that would be surprising, it s an option i guess, or maybe it s because they know he s a bit of a thorn in the side of joe biden, and even by fox new standards things. on the topic of russia s war with ukraine . i to appease putin, who i think is evil, they ve already given up crimea, which is annexed, and now they have to give up the donbas area? ukraine, because of our pushing ukraine into the war on two occasions, and
to appease putin, who i think is evil, they ve already given up crimea, which is annexed, and now they have to give up the donbas area? ukraine, because of our pushing ukraine into the war on two occasions, and did we push them or did putin? he began with what happened, we sent boris johnson over there to torpedo it. we don t want peace, we want the war with russia. [applause] why are you blaming america s role in this? putin in good faith. he even lost sean hannity there if you noticed. that tells you something. for the record, i can t believe this needs to be restated, but america is not to blame for the war in ukraine, neither is ukraine. remember, it was their country, the country of ukraine, invaded by vladimir putin and the
it seemsjust now on the ground that russia is very close tojoining up crimea, the crimea with the donbas, then we have on the other side moldova and in between odesa, that quintessential city, which is, i mean, that would be a huge deal if odesa fell to the russians. let us talk in the last few minutes, one of the things that unites modi, putin and boris johnson. we see them as populists, who have rode a wave of strong feeling. quite successfully, three of them, enforced in different ways. there is an election this weekend that could see a fourth joining that group, and it is the french presidential election where emmanuel macron, the centrist, challenged by marine le pen, and seems
i thinkjohnson s rode back a little today and said this is under consideration. not it is definitely going to happen. i mean, he is thinking of doing what biden decided not to do with aircraft, but with tanks, and i do know there are ukrainian troops being trained to use tanks here, now. to me, it is not a clear line, you know, where, where does, where does this become a wider war and who makes it so? putin s testing a new icbm, it is really difficult. i completely take your point about people making moves and not knowing where they go. it seems just now on the ground that russia is very close tojoining up crimea, the crimea with the donbas, then we have on the other side moldova and in between odesa, that quintessential city, which is, i mean, that would be a huge deal
you can t underestimate the will to fight. that is the unknown when you invade a country like ukraine. so you talk about portions of the russian speaking population in ukraine that might lean towards moscow. they re in the donbas region where russia already has forced. but by putin senting in forces in 2014, gobbling up crimea and taking over donbas, he s turned off the rest of the population who if they were ever neutral, they re not neutral american and anti-moscow and anti-russia and maybe what they lack in terms of weapons they don t look in terms of a will to fight. that is what you re going to see. you re going to see a brutal conflict ensue. those are the intelligence estimates that we ve been hearing about from the u.s.