biden is expected to have new sanctions on russia. on saturday, the u.s. firmly accused russia of committing war crimes against humanity in ukraine. putin s war has cost thousands of lives. it is targeted civilians. putin has even taken aim at a maternity hospital in mariupol. as we enter year two of the invasion, there is no clear end in sight. and now there are new concerns about china s involvement. this weekend, u.s. officials warn that china might be providing russia with non lethal military assistance. it could provide lethal assistance in the future. here s what secretary of state anthony blinken said earlier today on msnbc. jen is trying to have it both ways. publicly, and privately as i said we have seen already over the past months. the nonlethal assistance that does go directly to aiding and abetting russia s war. and some further information that we are sharing today. i think it will be out there soon. it indicates that they will have lethal assistance to russ
year, russia has failed most for t.j. to deal with these missions on the ground. therefore it s been a complete failure in ukraine. russia has isolated itself as a result of this fight. i think nato and our nato partners understand this is a war on ukraine and this is about peace and prosperity. and then to our nato allies as well i think it s all about reassuring them that the u.s. will be there. and the ukrainians it will be there in solidarity to provide more aid to the ukrainian people. we are there for the long term. picking up the generals point, around play some sounds from republican senators mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham.
fell clearly taking them from other areas but in addition to that it was specifically for this caravan and i think one of the concerns that i imagine would be doing the planning is like what would the rules of engagement be here? what exactly with these troops be doing along the border when they need, when they meet this caravan that was coming. i got to the point where it was the joint staff there was some level of planning, as soon again, according to secretary esper s account, as soon as he told them to turn off the planning, it ended it never got any for than that. i will say that the joint staff plans for everything, they plan for a lot of things that never actually happen, but there were someone presumably at the white house that told him to go for with this planning. it did gain a little bit of traction very early on. yeah, just the idea of having to earn 50,000 u.s. troops on the u.s. mexico border just on a manageable given the fact that we probably used just around that n
this case the administration is sharing with ukraine where russia s mobile tactile headquarters are. and these are the headquarters, the battlefield headquarters that move frequently as russia advances and retreats in this war. and the u.s. is giving the ukrainians the location of the various different sources and methods that we don t have that much fidelity on. but they re sharing this information, they say this is when you re looking at the generals point, the tactical headquarters or generals tend to hang out, that s where your senior officials are. they re not gonna be sitting in a con actually fighting. they re gonna be in these headquarters, and then ukraine goes and they attack these headquarters, that s how they managed to kill not all 12 russian generals so far in this war, which is an astounding
even when he moved up into the job as secretary of defense, the nickname yesper still persisted throughout the pentagon. so, esper has said corny that there were in fact discussions within the pentagon to send troops to the border for the so-called caravan that the administration was constantly humpy an op. do we know how far they got in those discussions are deliberations? so, according to former secretary esper he says that it actually got to the point where the chairman of the joint chiefs had some sort of a plan that had been worked in the joint staff. for this idea of potentially sending 250,000 u.s. troops to the border. and i mean i m sure everyone understands why that s something that would cause a lot of concern among military leaders, number one, that s a tremendous amount of troops to send to the border. i don t even know that the u.s. has 250,000 that the consent