casualties will cause problems at home for putin. so, with respect to what we do to the outside at the moment probably the most important cost imposed on putin from the domestic support is being imposed by the ukrainians themselves. general hedges, a country of about 44 million people, ukraine, how difficult would that country be to occupy? if you re russia and even with all of your might, occupying a country of that size, is that really something they could do for a long period of time? i don t think so. the population itself voted overwhelmingly to lean toward the west, to join the eu in due course and nato. i think if he intends to or tries to occupy and subjugate the country by military means, that will become a very long and very bloody task.
militarily, tonely, you know, with what he said yesterday about anyone attempting to interfere with this operation? good evening. i think his menacing speech is a direct threat to nato countries and anybody else to get involved. unequivocally, he s prepared to say he s prepared to use strategic weapons, nuclear weapons, to deter that. so he s looking to isolate ukraine militarily by using that threat. and now within ukraine itself, he s looking to encircle looks like he s trying to encircle kyiv and give too many points of pressure for the ukrainian armed forces to deal with by coming to the east and from the southeast out of crimea as well. laura: general hedges, the
issue i keep coming back to two-countries i keep coming back to, china and germany. tonight, germany, a phone call to president biden, could say, you know, we re going to have to sacrifice in the short term. we need to cut russia off from the swift banking system. they have explicitly come out against that. your reaction to that given how much kounthryes are asked to sacrifice here to help ukraine in their hour of need. the source of sanctions like that is outside of my expertise. from the sanctions perspective, i would say at the moment, the most significant sanction being imposed on vladimir putin is the casualties and the ukrainian armed forces that are putting it on that government. and i think the the strength of the resistance and those
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