years ago today. we heard from steve president belarus announced russian forces are staying and not going home after the drills which were supposed to end today. first of all, these steps are aimed to prevent war, our president said it more than once during meetings. we don t want war but they either don t hear us or don t want to hear us. lucas: german diplomats have joined american counterparts in lviv. the kremlin opted for the massive missile drills from land, sea and air. today ukrainians mark the eighth anniversary of invading crimea, 100 protestors massacred. putin s obsession with ukraine goes back over 30 years.
it has there has to be consequences. there s also more that we could be doing in regards with ukrainians to defend themselves because there will be, this is just the opening play there is going to be an enormous amount of violence. scenarios that the biden administration played out are more than likely to come in to pass. i give it 90%, not one third probability 90% probability that we re heading in that direction. we don t have this kind of four structures put on ukraine s borders just for putin to declare these locations independent and then throw back troops. his problems with the. ukraine so there is one thing we need to do. and frankly we might get pulled into this regardless of what we do. colonel thanks for your time, lieutenant colonel will be right back. be right back be right back and only option proven to treat
in 2008, russia recognized in quotes but it also referred to as independent republics. that time with a neighboring nation of georgia. that decision was followed by a conflict that forced 200,000 people to flee their homes. six years later russia did the same thing invading crimea in the ukraine a that s resulted in many as 14,000 deaths. and hundred thousands of more displacements. now russia peers to be doing the same thing in the don t ask and don t launch areas of ukraine. it s unclear whether it will be limited to that region. a large contingent of russian forces north of ukraine in belarus a separate question, pro following the end of the russian war in belarus. you never know wrong on the ukrainian border. ukraine is surrounded by the east and towards the south.
invaded another country during three of the four. under george w. bush, he invaded georgia. under clinton, invading crimea. invading now ukraine. he did not invade any country under president trump, and i know that president trump had a partnership or a relationship with the head of saudi arabia whereas when trump asked him to ramp up production, he did, and oil prices went down. now you re seeing a partnership between mbs, the crown prince in saudi arabia, and russia, and the ccp with xi jinping and russia. alled adversaries of america. this is pretty simple. what gives vladimir putin and his cronies their leverage? they have oil and they have nuclear weapons. st it s just that simple. and so the response ought to be relatively simple as well. we ought to pursue our, what has
troops. his problems with the. ukraine so there is one thing we need to do. and frankly we might get pulled into this regardless of what we do. colonel thanks for your time, lieutenant colonel we ll be right back.