that he would invade by just not taking nato advancement off the table, and he made that bluff, and now he went across. so we dare not do it again because, look, putin is completely committed to this. his to whole regime now rests on it. it would be a bad gamble to think he would back down from a no-fly zone. more than likely, he would ratchet up and accelerate. and we don t want to put him in that position, ironically, because it could backfire on us. and as bad as we sees the here, we don t want to see a polish city having these kinds of destructions or slovakia, hungary or anybody e else in nato and then potentially, god forbid, nuclear exchange. that is not out of the question, and we don t even want to take take a chance of that because of the catastrophic if results. eric: an even more dire ahead, lieutenant colonel dan yell davis, thank you for your service and thank you for your insight today.
he really has been a remarkable leader for his country. president volodymyr zelenskyy leading his country against the russian bear and the evil of vladimir putin. trey, thank you. let s now bring in retired army lieutenant colonel davis who was deployed four times, now senior fellow, military expert for defense priorities. thank you for joining us, colonel. your sense, pick up from what trey just said, lawyers, average people, workers, the citizens of that country ready to confront and, they say, repel a russian invasion. what do you expect to happen over the next few days? well, i m looking at this from just a combat fundamental perspective and from a military history perspective. it s probably not going to work out very well percent people of ukraine. i mean, nobody can question