ripple effects that come from there. let s talk cyber attack here, general mccaffrey. ukraine now saying they have experienced one of the largest cyber attacks they have experienced in their nation s history. if it is identified that the source of this cyber attack is moscow, is russia at the ends of vladimir putin, how should the united states how should nato forces respond? russia is potentially capable of bringing down the electrical grid, of affecting the water supplies, the knocking the financial system on its knees. so we should expect that the crisis is not over, even if military overt ground combat power pulls back. these kind of threats to
notice he s also recruiting in syria for foreign fighters, practiced in urban warfare, sounds like nonsense also. you ve got 60% of his ground combat power inside ukraine, half the air force. he s in over his head already. his logistics system has broken down. it looks like, at the operational level of war, his commanding control has broken down. they re not fighting very well and they look indisciplined and hungry and looting things, so this is a mess. i don t see how he backs out of that. at some point, one can only hope that his own military leadership approaches him and says, you re deepening the disaster for russia. he s had to arrest 15,000 of his own citizens, brave people, incredible to stand up to russian police, but this is a downward slide. will the europeans in particular
trying to get s-300 anti-missile systems out of other nato countries delivered. there may be some new technology appearing, but i think the biggest thing president biden has done is political unity, economic sanctions, and now i think what we re going to see nato do is build a strategic threat to the russians in the eastern block of countries. we re going to see enhanced forward presence by the french, by the germans, by the united states and the baltic states, poland, romania, so that putin s generals tell him, hey, look, you have committed 60% of our ground combat power and half our air power to fighting in ukraine. now nato is a strategic threat to us in other locals. that s probably the next step.
nations to sign up, but the brits, french, germans and us can do it, and they need to start doing it now. and is that a conversation that s happening? because i know when you talk, general mccaffrey, people listen. well, you know, i ve been in several administrations in washington, and our government actually works better than any other one i ve encountered on the globe. however, we get wrapped around the council, you know? conference table and with lawyers debating the white house lawyers, doj lawyers, state lawyers, pentagon lawyers, defensive versus offensive, you know, i ve seen a lot of people killed in combat, and it was not apparent whether it was a defensive kill or an offensive kill. so, they ve been worried about nuclear warfare. they should be. the president s going to be held accountable. they re worried about world war iii. not much of a worry in my mind. russia has most of their ground