that news is scary. if it s true, and it seems to be true, it means that syria is using ballistic missiles inside their own borders, shooting them at their own people. it is scary. the white house press secretary yesterday described it as a stunning, desperate, and completely disproportionate military escalation in that conflict. but however scary the firing scud missiles at their own people development might be for the fighting in syria, it is also a reminder of how key russia is. not just to the history of how we got here and to the history of what weaponry is there to be used in this fight, but how key they are to what happens now. to how this maybe resolves. after the cold war, when we went from soviet union to russia, right? russia kept their close ties to syria. the one military base they have outside the former soviet union they have in syria. the russians and the syrians are very close. they re very close to syria s dictator, bashar al assad. they were very close with al assad
the white house press secretary yesterday described it as a stunning, desperate, and completely disproportionate military escalation in that conflict. but however scary the firing scud missiles at their own people development might be for the fighting in syria, it is also a reminder of how key russia is. not just to the history of how we got here and to the history of what weaponry is there to be used in this fight, but how key they are to what happens now. to how this maybe resolves. after the cold war, when we went from soviet union to russia, right? russia kept their close ties to syria. the one military base they have outside the former soviet union they have in syria. the russians and the syrians are very close. they re very close to syria s dictator, bashar al assad. they were very close with al assad s dad. they ve done billions of dollars worth of trade deals, as i ve said, in weapons alone. and in this year and a half-long civil war in syria that has cost tens of thousands of
at their own people. it is scary. the white house press secretary yesterday described it as a stunning, desperate, and completely disproportionate military escalation in that conflict. but however scary the firing scud missiles at their own people development might be for the fighting in syria, it is also a reminder of how key russia is. not just to the history of how we got here and to the history of what weaponry is there to be used in this fight, but how key they are to what happens now. to how this maybe resolves. after the cold war, when we went from soviet union to russia, right? russia kept their close ties to syria. the one military base they have outside the former soviet union they have in syria. the russians and the syrians are very close. they re very close to syria s dictator, bashar al assad. they were very close with al assad s dad. they ve done billions of dollars worth of trade deals, as i ve said, in weapons alone. and in this year and a half-long civil war in syria
declined to the lowest level in six years. alisyn: we have breaking news now on the civil war in syria. nato s secretary-general says the assad regime is on the verge of collapse. we ve seen sharp escalation in the war with regime forces firing scud missiles on the rebels. general jack keane, retired four-star general, former chief of staff of the army and fox news contributor. hi, general. good morning, alisyn. do you agree with nato all the signs point to the assad regime being in a state of near collapse? wer certainly moving towards that but we ve been predicting the collapse of this regime a long time. we re 20 one months into the conflict. the fact of the matter assad owns the skies. in other words he has air power, air supremacy, that really protracted his staying in power as long as he has been able to do this. alisyn: the fact he is firing scud missiles now, does that tell you he thinks
we made a decision that the syrian opposition coalition is nowusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the syrian people in opposition to the assad regime and so we will provide them recognition and obviously with that recognition comes responsibilities on the part of that coalition. shepard: the head of the syrian national coalition says they need military equipment. but the white house is still against arming the group. at the same time syrians say television reports a huge explosion rocked the main gate of the interior ministry in damascus and senior u.s. defense official says the syrian military is firing scud missiles at rebel fighters. think of that. the government firing scud missiles at its own people inside its own borders. the fox report jonathan hunt has this, live from the united nations. what else do we know about the scud missiles?