ukrainians, and help them put pressure for diplomatic solution. presjason, i want to pull you bk in on this, to everything that s been said. the conversation has started. yeah. it s interesting when you start to look at the dynamics again. we ve been at this war for a long time, and the chaos at the ground is not settled. this could go for a long time. i will remind everyone that the force is entrenched on the line if you will, the up and down province and in the east are very much defendable for a long time. russia can resupply, they ve got a tremendous amount of resources to throw in there. but, because of vladimir putin having to fight a political fronts at home, he should be focused on that. and as ambassador fall suggested, that s a clever play. if we can convince those around and others that are part of this conversation to begin to look for the negotiated settlement, and once again,
you are in a very grinding war, it seems, very even and balanced, this is phase three. the ukrainians are on the march they are motivated, they re well equipped by nato, the united states, they know exactly what they are doing, and above all, the russians have lost 80,000 troops killed. knocked out, wounded, thousands of tanks, thousands of armored vehicles, they are on their back foot. having said all of that, alex, i will conclude with this. as russia compresses dak into that red area that you are showing right now, it is a smaller area, it is more defendable look for this thing to tighten up again. i think the ukrainians are marching and fighting hard, i would not bet against them. what do you make of the kremlin orchestration vote that is underway right now in day two of five? were residents in the control parts of ukraine, or at least partially controlled are being asked, view wants to be part of
kaspirov. he understands the national game of russia chess very well and we re seeing a chess game here. putin is pushing, pushing, pushing, he also wants to consolidate defense around what he perceives as a less defendable borders for russia in the wake of nato. one other point to be made here, stephanie, is that putin also seeks to divide nato, he seeks to divide europe on this issue. he knows there s controversy about oil and gas and above all he would like to divide the united states and portray the biden administration as weak headed into our elections. so as always it s a game within a game for vladimir putin. a game within a game. admiral, gary, matt, carol, you have sufficiently scared an informed us on this monday morning. we re going to leave it there for now, but he will be watching these negotiations as the day continues. we ve now got to turn to the fight against the coronavirus. portions of the administration s
because it was the most secure base that you could have. the most defendable, multi-runway airport, we could have removed thousands of people in there. i see the president is now saying we moved out 100,000 people in his press secretary just a few days ago said i think it was three days ago, we had moved out 11,000. so if we only moved out 11,000 in one day, i don t know how i mean, it s all most impossible with a number of aircraft that were going out that we could have moved 100,000 people out. shannon: we are going to talk about bagram a little bit more coming up and about how that factors in here and the decision to let it go. in the meantime, mark and jake, we thank you both for being among the bravest and the best who have gone to that region and done what you did voluntarily to protect the rest of us and to fight for freedom, thank you both very much. thank you, shannon and god bless. shannon: you too buried much more reaction to the attack in afghanistan and here in w
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