over. that s a false narrative. evelyn, how much of the dangerous history of europe and accidental war and real world wars and cold war and expansion nato to inform this discussion? on one hand you could just say, russia, you are a different country and we as the united states and russia have a view on that? vladimir putin given speeches and talked about this greater empire and reconstituting this russian empire. how do you reconcile what s important in this conversation? okay. so we don t sound like we re having a social studies class we all live in a political system with certain rights in our democracy. the russians, we haven t talked about all the horrible things the russians did under vladimir
you ll remember, howie, back in the soviet union the underground newspapers that were printed out and handed person to person on the streets. that is what is happening right now. putin is trying to shut his people off from information about what is happening in ukraine. howard: high-tech. we have about a minute left, and i guess we should do a little bit of a history lesson because we have faced this before. the soviet invasion of hungary in 1956, czechoslovakia, 1968, afghanistan, 1979 and then the russian invasion of georgia in 2008 where the temptation and the instincts of many in the west are to stop the killing, to do what it makes takes. but in each of those instances the u.s. held back not wanting to go to war with russia in russia s spear of influence spear of dis, sphere of influence. reporter: when you look at the history of europe and the history of interventionism and what is the red line, better to fight a country early or a mad
place. we have no other choice. but this time, together as the european union, in support of ukraine, keeping in mind it is notjust supporting the ukrainian people, but also supporting our security and also supporting our security and also the stability of the world. this is going to have a price. this is not a free lunch. sanctions will backlash. sanctions have a cost. and it is better to express and explain to public opinion that this is we will have to pay a much bigger price in the future. i think it is important to face that with determination and realism. we are turning a page in the history of
history of kyiv and the history of europe. if they feel all of us, they will enter kyiv and this is the objective. then, let them enter but they will have to live on the land without us. they will not find any francs among us here. as far as israel is concerned in the mediation of prime minister bennett, in general we are quite positive. we, personally, i am quite positive of any mediation by anyone but i am not calling mr bennett as anyone because
officials here are going to say we need more help. in fact, the mayor of warsaw put out the statement. he said is necessary for european and international aid. we are facing the biggest migration crisis in the history of europe since world war ii. what is remarkable having been here for a number of days now, neil, is 50 to 80,000 every day are coming into poland, into the border here. going to this table right here to look at the map to see with it may be able to go next. so the international community has been put on notice. please send help in whatever form or fashion you can. neil: thank you very much for that. and poland for that. the former deputy under secretary of defense, a big story today almost got lost was ahead of president zelensky s address to congress tomorrow, the leaders of poland,