they need the assistance right now. how about then on the no-fly zone? are you in agreement that putting in place a no-fly zone would immediately trigger a world war iii? fredricka, this is a really tough problem for nato and the united states. i have experience with no-fly zones, particularly in libya. i was an operations officer and according to the u.n. security council mandate to stop the general side of gadhafi, we were told to establish a no-fly zone. you may recall that secretary of defense bob gates at the time said a no-fly zone is yet another attack on another arab country. he did not want to do it. we ultimately did do it, and the problem with no-fly zones is you just can t fly aircraft into air space over ukraine and say, okay, we ve established a no-fly zone. you have to mitigate the risk against those nato or u.s. aircraft, and that means eliminating the threats to those aircraft. that means kinetic strikes
what putin was going to do, but in bringing all of our allies along. we ve sanctioned nord stream 2, a complete turnaround in the german approach. we ve had putin be personally sanctioned to a level now that he s in the category with gadhafi and assad. you ve got russians being kicked out of s.w.i.f.t., a sanction of the central bank in russia, by not only us, but others. this really has been a uniform world reaction against putin s aggression. senator mark warner, it is always a pleasure to see you. thank you very much for being with us this morning. thank you. up next, we ll do a deep dive into the russian invasion of ukraine. would putin really use nuclear weapons in this fight? you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. s in this ? you re watching jose you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. that s service i can trust. singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. i ve got diabetes and hypertension,
gadhafi in libya. he worries about staying in power. it is all about survival. that s why he wanted to kill ukraine. ukraine was a successful democratic western leaning country on his border which could be a signal to his own people if this type of thing was positive, it was possible not to live under repression, it is possible for slavs and russian speakers to live in a democratic country. he had to snuff that out. it is about his personal survival. now, you know, now he has to double down on being a tough guy and that s scary. it is going to be ugly. ukrainians don t seem to be going for it. they seem to be going the exact opposite direction. john sypher, thank you so much. thank you. a new report overnight that china asked russia to delay its invasion of ukraine until after the olympics. we have new details ahead. ation: certified goosebumps. certifified from headlamp to tailpipe. that s certified head turns.
hand to put as much together with our allies to push back against putin. it clearly wasn t enough. vladimir putin decided to roll the dice and take this off awful move, essentially murdering people, innocent people in an innocent country that was no threat to him. yeah, it s clear we need to do more. that s one of the strong arrows in our quiver. this is what vladimir putin does almost exclusively. he uses security services to do sabotage. we saw it in our own country, our own election. we have to be very careful in this country about using those type of covert activities. but, you know, we saw yesterday the russian people were surprised by this. they re willing to come out on the streets. if the united states can sort of get information to the russian people, support the russian people here, i think that would be a useful thing. the thing that vladimir putin fears the most, the reason he s doing this, it s about survival. he doesn t want to be dragged through the suer like gadhafi in
mercenaries from the wagner group and bringing in forces from gadhafi s groups in libya. some of the groups in the east have been destroyed, just ripped apart. second, you re seeing them set up defensive positions now, instead of advancing, they re starting to set up defensive position, dig in and lay mine fields. you re trying to hold terrain. the russians saying we re going to bring our massive indirect fires, artillery, missiles, aircraft. that s a losing strategy to me when you look at how many fronts they re trying to advance on, and lost personnel. they re reorganizing the leftovers of destroyed divisions, with new forces coming in. clint watts, thank you so much. coming up, a look at this morning s must read opinion s page, including katty s take on a humiliated, beaten down, humbled america. do we look beaten down to you?