9th victory day parade in red square, but the weakness and insecurity of the kremlin has been exposed for all to see. wolf, as well as publicly denying any involvement with this drone incident, ukrainian official tell us tonight they re also privately reiterating that to officials in the united states and other allies as well. meanwhile, in russia, there are calls for vengeance in the media and amongst senior russian officials at what many there view as a humiliating strike at the heart of the russian capital. wolf? matthew chance reporting for us. thank you. let s bring in our experts on national security, the military, and russia. retired general marks, like to talk about the possibility of who is behind this. what s your analysis? first of all, we have to agree that something like this
it relates to a number of different people who are in horrible conditions. you mentioned paul whelan and gershkovitch. but we also saw today a final statement to the court from a person familiar to you and others as being a russian dissident. someone who lived in america for many years and attempted to be poisoned by the putin regime not once, but twice. he gave a final statement to the court that was very dramatic. i think one of the things we need to understand about this moment is the biden administration is not doing any of the things necessary to put russia in a bad position when it comes to all of these people that they are capturing. we need to put the brakes to them. instead we treat this like the same way we treated the drone incident most recently where we are saying we ll just guide our drones around the airspace that you are in. that s not acceptable. it is not an expression of american strength. we need to be putting the screws to russia in a way that forces
are when they re unveiled. exactly. mike: russia regime taking a wall street journal colleague of ours. julia, what about that. as a journalist with a lot of admiration work foreign journalist does this was a gut punch this week looking at the policy side of this it signals escalation and tensions between the u.s. and russia. obviously the u.s. and its allies have been cracking down on russian spies within their own borders are outside of russia s borders, excuse me. this seems like it was in retaliation. i think this should serve as a potential warning to other journalists reporting in russia that as this feud between the west, ukraine, and russia escalates, journalists will be more risk unfortunately. mike: ben, what should the administration do. the administration has under joe biden adopted a posture toward russia that i believe has been far too accommodating especially in the aftermath, for instance, of the drone incident we saw most recently. we haven t seen the kind
A decision by President Joe Biden’s administration to reroute drone flights over the Black Sea to avoid provoking a direct conflict with Russian forces has curtailed intelligence gathering on the Ukraine crisis, a senior US military official has said.
for china and the balloon incident, no consequences for russia and the drone incident. and we should not you know, we should not be bailing out billionaires and millionaires, liberal friends of joe biden and the democratic party. why are we doing that? and how do you stop it? sean, to your first point, this is all you this is how you restore deterrence. president trump, discord, recurrence. restore deterrence because dictators are going to push until they meet steel. when the russians press too hard in syria, when they cross the red line, he bombed and killed three hundred russian mercenaries when the iranians shot down our drone over the over the arabian gulf, when they attacked our embassy, he took out sulimani. he took out their field, general. and guess what? it did all stop. final point on the one the europeans we contributed