should when we are talking about something that could full scale war with russia. one we sent 196 billion of either committed or already sent money. where is that money going? is it being fully audited watch dogs raised concerns how that money is being spent. we don t know what it s being spent. what does winning look like in ukraine as well. look, russia took crimea in 2014. also the eastern part of the donbas region. does winning mean expelling russia from those parts? is it feasible? is it possible? what s it going to take and senator lindsey graham with all due respect he was fine with a 20 year war with afghanistan. that wasn t long enough for him. brian: that s not true, lisa, that s not true. lisa: what was the exit strategy. brian: hold the area. keep an eye on the terrorists and make sure china and iran know that we re go and we hold bagram. this president i had 00 particularly thought it would be a great idea just to leave and
i think the basic attitude of many russians who i know and who i have spoken to over the last year just keep your head down and keep out of trouble. don t get thrown in jail. maybe this will go away. it s a weird system when you have one guy who controls everything. he controls the television channels. if you go out and protest you get thrown in jail or worse. so they are keeping their head down for now just trying to bear with it. steve, i have a quick question for you. since you are advantage point where you can look down and see the president in with your own two eyes in the square behind you. i know we got the news that the president was there at about 5:00 eastern time this morning. but, before that, i was noticing on some international twitter accounts they had pictures of the president. so did the people of ukraine know the president was there before we did? i think some people out on the street knew and some people certainly had suspicions when you saw the huge motorcade
rouge baca. steve: good morning. brian: good morning to you. where do you think we are at with this conflict? what do you think the president s visit means? well, where we are with this conflict is that even chairman of the joint chiefs general mark milley has admitted that there is no path to victory for ukraine. my intelligence analysis tells me this war isn t winnable? why? it s because putin s strategy is to outsuffer and outlast the adversary. putin has assembled half a million of new recruits. 315 joining the fight right now. 150 in training camps. as you just said, brian, this is typically putin, putin s russia just throwing bodies into the
already telegraphing two ukraine that this is unsustainable. because we are doing our own review because our own weapon stockpile is depleting. some of these weaponry is going to take 70 to 08 years to replace. ukraine is having an extremely high burn rate of ammo. 5,000 rowneldz a day so our production strategy is outmatched. the strategy reveals the pentagon s inability to plan for anything, right? so right now when china is actually looming this is what i m predicting right now. i see the writing on the wall, china is gearing up for war, right? xi jinping has installed a war time cabinet back in october. china just identified a glaring airspace security gaps in our
ukraine. zelenskyy, you want to vacation in the caribbean, why don t you go ahead and take that. what how soon do you think china would have taken taiwan already? china would have taken it very quickly. brian: exactly. so you have to you are talking generally. you have to talk in the real world. in the real world. i m talking real world, brian. brian: either we help ukraine or allow it to be taken over and understand the ripple effect will be goodbye moldova which is already happening. goodbye georgia which they lost about two provinces and then go ahead and start mounting troops on poland. unless they flip governments and they have already started to infiltrate into the baltic nations at one point we are going to be fighting over there. so we either back ukraine to fight or just give eastern europe back to russia and that really doesn t go well. two points. first, with all due respect to you, there s a logical