very effective on the battle field. in terms of ukraine s long range fire, we could do the same thing, provide strike capabilities with unmanned military vehicles, and operated under the ukrainian government, ukrainian armed forces with pilots and assets organized by the ukrainian armed forces and doesn t have to be provocative, there are rules to this game. we existed in a cold war environment under the looming threat of nuclear war for decades. the rules have always been no bilateral confrontation or really limited bilateral confrontation because it spilled over a couple times and as long as we don t put boots on the ground and get into a fight with the russians directly, they have no interest in this fight. their armies perform terribly and loathe to try to engage with
ban it, that s speaker pelosi discussing an option with increasing attention as the war goes on to go after putin with devastating oil and gas sanctions, u.s. and others pummelling the kremlin with other sanctions you ve heard about and that has had impact, sending russians scrambling for cash, the ruble collapsing, elite panicking, yachts confiscated but no one has actually gone near the biggie. now, oil represents about the majority of about 60% of all russian exports. it is putin s economic lifeline even especially amongst new sanctions and there are leaders who feel, basically, if you do this to go after putin, it could boomerang on you. it could hurt so much of the rest of the world and countries who import the gas, europe cares about it even more than we do in the united states but american
something we need to push forward on very, very rapidly in our councils of government. yeah, you could definitely get in. i want to let you respond, respectfully, admiral, you may be using the word maximal with some room or diplomatically because there s something less than maximal that the ukrainians and others say the u.s. is doing at this moment. frankly, i don t think a lot of these conversations are occurring. in my temperature check, in my engagement with government, it s how do we get back to normal, and my concern, and i call this, frankly, that we were all but certain to enter this war was how to avoid it in the first place and now how to avoid hob war, so i m very aware of the fact we need to be careful and no-fly zone is probably not the best idea, but the turks for instance, are providing tb 2s, these are very powerful uavs,
for cease fires on some humanitarian corridors, those details, though, are vague at this point, just the outline we ve heard. ukraine s defiant president holding a press conference today at undisclosed location, nbc s richard angle able to report from there. reporter: there a way to reduce the war from escalating even now? it s not, i want to talk with putin, it s i have to talk with putin, the world has to talk with putin because there are no other ways to stop this war. as for putin, he is probably saying the invasion is going according to plan. that comes as a public claim while the convoy we ve reported on still stalled north of kyiv and some accounts whether russia s military is proceeding as intended. meanwhile, when you look at the sanctions, u.s. announced new sanctions on billionaire oligarchs and officials