to hold the alliance together. it s important that the united states establishes russia as the aggressor for the europeans. they ve been putting this information out because it allows us to control the information environment around what is the perception of a potential russian invasion, and that will help us both blunt putin s effort to gin up domestic support in russia but also help bring along allies behind sanctions and the fortification of nato, all the things we re seeing. general allen, it feels as if it s clear to me there are exit ramps for putin if he wants them. in fact, whether we want to admit it or not, this pressure campaign has worked to a point where there are a couple of if he wants to take an exit ramp, declare some form of victory, he can. why do you think he hasn t taken it yet? well, i think he s hoping to position the united states and our allies to make potential security concessions ultimately
could be a place that is subject to russian attack. but i do think this is a process we have to think of playing out over months, maybe over years, but what comes out of it is the shape of the world we re going to live in. that s why it is crucial that people not lose hope, not look for easy exit ramps because those could take us to a very dark place. well, and the cold war went from 1947 to 1991. so when joe biden is talking about waiting a month to see how these sanctions go and reporters at the white house are shocked and stunned and deeply saddened, you actually wonder if they have any sense of history at all, that you re not going to put sanctions down and stop vladimir putin from going into a country or turning around magically.
is just you talk to any military strategist. they will never be able to subdue this country. so it does sound to me like the russians may not be desperate for a peace deal, but they re trying to make the situation as horrifying to the ukrainians as they can to drive them to the table to get the agreement on neutrality, to get the agreement on crimea, to get the agreement on donbas, and you have the ukrainians going in the opposite saying, oh, no, now we re going to take back crimea, we re going to take back donbas. moving the goalpost. it sounds like two sides that may be trying to find a way to get together. we keep talking about exit ramps. it may be the ultimate exit ramp from vladimir putin is defeat, defeat over a long term. i want to ask admiral stavridis who has studied war all his life what choices he thinks vladimir
be wary if you start hearing people talk about off-ramps and exit ramps for vladimir putin. you don t see any. right. thanks, steve and susan, we appreciate you. inflation causing headaches across the united states. use cross the country, people are paying more for food and gas. what happens if you re on a fixed d budget or business owne? is there relief inin sight. that s coming up. voltaren, the joy of movement.
you have to find a place to park somewhere. and, unfortunately, a lot of times these guys wind up and girls wind up parking alongside the interstates on exit ramps and not a safe place to park number one because you could be run into by someone not paying attention. it s a bad situation all the way around and something that we really need to be done with something done with, you know, as fast as possible. steve: sure. you know, if i were a truck are, the number one issue that would be top of mind with me right now is the price of gas. tell us if you would, monty, how much it costs you to fill up your truck a year ago and how much it costs you last time you filled it up. it s about double from a year ago. i think it was around 2 something, maybe $3 and right now it s been hovering around $5. so maybe not quite double. but it s, you know, quite a bit more than it was a year ago.