performance will russian air force which is not been a major part of this fight. i would have to say, i was shocked. i assume they ll go after the ukrainian air force. but, two thirds of the ukrainian air force is still flying against supposedly a superpower. i still think the big problem for the ukrainians is a stepping fired from the ground, at ground units, and civilians rather than what s coming from fighter jets or fighter-bombers. charles, to bring you into this. whether or not it is the thing that what turned the tide the most. do you foresee the united states s finding some way to go ahead and give than the jets anyway if they believe they needed? given how they have filed at least held russia? we have listened to the very powerful words of president zelenskyy during the joint session of congress. invoking dr. martin luther
germany. if we did that, we would not just shoot down russian planes, we have to attack the s 400 anti aircraft missiles, just across inside russia. we d have to engage russian ground units who then fired on our core aircraft. it would clearly lead to direct war with russia. and tom, that s the part that no one who s advocating the so-called no-fly zone ever addresses. yeah, there is more to a no-fly zone and simply shooting down bad guys who might be bothering could guess. you don t put your pilots in the air and just loiter around and hope for the best. you re going to have to suppress army air defenses, you re going to have to establish entire areas over the skies of ukraine where if it
catastrophe of the humanitarian disaster, in ukraine. this would have been the nato, or usc, unilateral, air intervention. not with some nonsense about no-fly zone s over a humanitarian corridor, but to go after the russian air force, and go after the ground units. i don t think that president biden thinks that is feasible, politically, and a military perspective. the u.s. armed forces, and nato, in particular, could do that. i don t think that is going to happen. we are going to have a very horrible situation, that is getting worse, rapidly. president biden may not think it is feasible, but do you? well, from a military perspective, of course. with military force in many, ways there is many forces, except for nuclear weapons, now particularly except experienced.
children and women. charles, i want to ask that question. given what you seen, do you agree with this? that jets would allow them to stop the slaughter? the problem is most of the damage being done is by units from the ground. they are getting hit by missiles and artillery. i don t want a second guess the ukrainian parliament are presidents and look for. they want these jets first to keep their skies clear. as a symbol of commitment. commitment from the west to get those jets to them. in terms of things that are actually causing death and distraction, those jets would have to go after ground units, that are inflecting this damage. that is really what s going on. the russian air force, if we re talking about the poor performance of the russian army, the russian army has done well compared to the miserable
the colonel said for a conflict to go on for weeks, months, years? yeah. i think it has surprised a lot of western analysts. you heard from american officials that the russians could be in kyiv in two days and then control a lot of the country but that wasn t the case. and i think we overestimated and vladimir putin did the capacity out russian military and the air war is a great example of that. we wouldn t go to an invasion without controlling the air space first. first control the air space. they didn t do that. the russians didn t do that. they used close air action combat support from the ground units and ukrainians taking ad of that and the equipment given to them over the years. a thing i would at to what the