the pentagon has been flowing precisely the type of weapons necessary for that into the hands of ukrainians. i think vladimir putin s forces are in for the fight of a lifetime, right to take that massive city. and, oh, by the way, julio, at the opposite end of the technology spectrum, i think we re going to hear from john kirby this afternoon, the pentagon press secretary, that we are closing in and are very close on the deal that will give mig 29 combat aircraft from poland to the ukrainians. they know how to fight them. the u.s. will backfill with f-16s. every conceivable weapons system is flowing into ukraine that will arm these brave fighters. it s something that the ukrainians have been screaming for for days now. i m so concerned when you see how this invasion is escalating putin has the experience of grosny and aleppo.
think about it, whenever there is a missile strike or any type of u.s. military strike where civilian casualties are incurred, we read about it in the newspaper. we hear about it on this and other networks. the pentagon undertakes studies. congress oftentimes gets involved. apologies are oftentimes issued. military officers sometimes get into trouble for this thing. if you try to explain that to a russian it s like talking color to a dog. we don t get it. we do things like we go in grosny. if we run into some sort of guerrilla street fighting that we don t like we ll back off and bomb it regardless whether there s a hospital, whether there s children, whether there s anybody, because the goal is to win at all costs. if that means leveling a country, lecvel a city, so be i. you went back and watched your appearance on wolf s show, the first day of the invasion, you said it looked like in 24-48 hours the russians could come in
ukrainian side should the russians use them but before it gets to that point, i worry about the russians disusing mass artillery strikes and missile strikes and do what we saw them do in syria. they targeted hospitals, schools, or go back 20 years to what the russians did in chechnya where they basically levelled the place. i think that s much more of a concern. that s the way the russian army seems to operate. it usually violates war crimes by russians. but that s, i think, the concern and so how does the west come up with pressure on moscow to dissuade moscow to back down and end this before it gets to that stage and you see mariupol, not only mariupol but in kharkiv and kyiv. they say mariupol is the new grosny, the new aleppo, which is to say a city levelled by the russians, just think about that.
in the before and after photos that we have, you can see the level of devastation. it s the u.s. intel view today that as russia meets resistance on the ground and even withdraws from some positions around kyiv that it s going to increase, not decrease, those kinds of aerial attacks on cities. that s the grosny playbook for russia. should we expect to see more of this? i think we should expect to see more of that, but two things, really. i do believe that because russia has failed in its broad war aims of bringing down the government in kyiv, they have to show some sort of new narrative for victory. and that narrative for victory has to have things on the ground that people can see. so that is about that land bridge of focusing on the southeast. but we should also expect that these bombardments will continue for two reasons. one is because they want to get ukrainians to offer better things on the negotiating table,
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