for more let s bring in cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hurt ling. putin spent saturday touring the streets he helped destroy in a country still deeply entrenched in war. what kind of message does that send both to his troops and the ukrainians? he s trying to send a message paula but have difficulties as you see in the pictures he was going through the one apartment building rebuilt sort of as a village, i don t use that loosely in the city of mariupol. as you just said, that city was utterly devastated by his shelling of civilian apartments and hospitals and schools and now he s going back to take a look around, and it s a photo opt as you see him in this film in the middle of an apartment building he s trying to relocate some ukrainian civilians, it s sending a signal because it s
happen. it s good policy and help every day american i want to turn to china, chinese president xi jinping will meet with russian president vladimir putin in moscow, of course, these two leaders will discuss ukraine as china continues to try to portray itself as a neutral party that could be an honest piece broker, you sit on house committee on china, what strategy do you think xi jinping is trying to implement here? for last 70 years, the triangle between china, russia and the united states has been the most important set of international relationships in the world. and clearly right now xi jinping is saddling up to russia as it compares to compete with the united states in the 21st century. if xi jinping decides to send weapons to russia for its brutal unprovoked invasion of ukraine. that would be the most significant development in that war since the invasion itself on february 24th. and united states and its alleys
still very far to the west behind enemy lines. it s in the province the russians have control of that province right now. but i think we ll see in the coming months that that will be a targeted area for the ukrainian counter offensive to take back their sovereign territory. tomorrow chinese president xi is traveling to moscow to meet with putin, u.s. furthers warn any proposal that comes out these talk would say likely favor russians do you think china could change the dynamics of this war. i do not, paula, the draft peace proposal the chinese already petitioned is all behind the russian attempts at gaining a cease fire, a freeze on the territory, which would create another frozen conflict. there are currently five frozen conflicts within europe russia
complex, there s a lot of people reflecting on that 20 s years later and saying what was our strategy? what were we attempting to do? the intelligence was flawed going into iraq and there wasn t a very good end state other than to depose sadam hussein as a dictator, the biggest lesson i think a lot of people if they haven t learned they should, is don t go to war unless you have a very good strategy for what you re attempting to do and you have a very good preliminary end state for what you want to accomplish. neither one of things were done in iraq, and just like the russians, also, i would harken back i was the war planner in the pentagon when that war was planned. and actually stood up and said, there are not enough forces for this kind of operation and our end state, objectives are not very clear. truthfully, i think we learned a lot from that. but our soldiers also fought valiantly and i think separate the war from the warriors
anybody get hurt. i know the president is neither, if this is what we re doing in this country you better secure the premises it s dangerous, people will get upset. i ve had people come to me in the past couple days and say how upsetting this is to them, no one wants anyone to ever get hurt. and at the end of the day, first amendment is important, the right to protest is very important, but people have to be safe, they have to be cautious, and we have to make sure that nobody is ever put in juror s. i truly do stand by that. so hopefully they do it in a peaceful way and this is done appropriately done. frankly nothing about it is appropriate. so if they choose to do this. up next, just one day after the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest, russian president vladimir putin drove through the bombed out ukrainian city of mariupol defiant as the war drags on.