the fact that russia is saying now it will not go along anymore with any inspections on a full withdrawal, but the significance of that and the fact that antony blinken the secretary of state said it is deeply unfortunate in any event and irresponsible said the u.s. will talk to russia about this at any point regardless of what is happening on the world stage with russia and ukraine. that is how critical the u.s. believes this is. absolutely critical. look, the only way that the nuclear threat is going to cool down in any way is if you look at past history where the united states and formerly the soviet union agreed to have their salt talks, to have the start talks, and then to continue with the new start talks that we see right now. that competition has been in place for over four to five decades and it must be addressed. look, one nuclear weapon alone is sufficient to give us all concern, right? what we re talking about is russia has in excess of 5,000 nuclear weapons. th
like can you give us some sense of how long it would take if those actually ended up in the country for their air force, their version of the air force, to train and to be competent on them? well, just don t fly an f-16. you fight an f-16 in concert with ground activity, ground maneuver intelligence, air engagements, et cetera. it s not just flying an aircast. it s fighting that aircraft effectively. this a minimal year-long type of training environment. what you want look, the ukrainian air force has some comp tenty is in a pock pit like that. you could get them up to the ability to fly it but ythen the have to train to fight it. that s a distinction with a difference. that is eye-opening. right? i didn t realize it was that long. wow. that s incredible. kaitlin. that s what we have heard from the ukrainian foreign