facing questions on this for a week now. what do you think of that? this isn t iraq, we re not trying to create a premise for u.s. forces to do anything and in fact, the president said u.s. forces aren t going to be in this even if the russians do invade, not even rescue american citizens. that said, you could only expose russian disinformation and proposed activities for so many times wfr thebefore the russian back to say, we were going to do x and didn t do it. you heard the russian foreign minister try to do this over the weekend. i think they re on pretty solid ground but i think at some point, they re going to have to show their homework and explain why they think this is going to happen. here s a map showing how russian forces have been building up on three sides of ukraine to the south, east, and north of belarus and then also
they resist if the russians take control of the city? just my personal opinion, one, i don t think they brought enough to take, and definitely didn t bring enough to hold. to fight a counterinsurgency, the numbers you need are astronomical. this isn t iraq. like you said, i had two combat tours, experienced a lot of insurgency. but that was maybe 1% of the population. this is going to be a giant percent of the population that will resist. if russia, if they take kyiv and install a government, they re going to face years i don t think they can sustain being there with the insurgency they ll face. yeah. absolutely. i want to thank you, major john spencer. i am going to jump away from you for just a moment. i want to go back to ali velshi. that train has come in, ali. i m going to try to grab you before we get to a break. i m with nbc news.
in syria. why didn t any of the moderates challenge her. none of the other 11, including mayor pete, no one said what regime? she has been somebody who is seen to defend bashar al-assad. and not blame assad at all for this. this isn t iraq. syria is a completely different situation but she seemed to be merging it. i think a lot of us were opposed to the iraq war. every debate she s had an interesting dynamic. as the field narrows, it s not clear whether she ll qualify for the next debate. there s so many candidates in each debate we have sort of different personalities, marianne williamson, andrew wang, tulsi gabbard who can change the tone or the mood of the debates. they re thinning out. i think that will create less of a distraction on stage for what some of the core issues are that we see the candidates going
tonight. sorry, but no one thinks u.s. troops withdrawn by trump were there as part of a regime change war by the u.s. it s as untrue as anything from the president of the united states. and clint watts, shannon, tweeted tulsi gabbard s take on syria is completely false. the u.s. did not start the war in syria, nor did we initiate a regime change. the u.s. did not back al qaeda in syria. why didn t any candidates challenge her on those falsehoods? i was surprised that none of the other 11, including mayor pete, no one turned to tulsi gabbard, and said, regime change? what regime? because she has been somebody who has seemed to defend bashar al assad. this isn t iraq. syria is a completely different situation, but she seemed to be merging it with i think a lot of us opposed the iraq war. each debate she has had an interesting dynamic. as the field narrows, it s not clear whether she will qualify for the next debate. but there s been so many
is a conservative and he never will be. deploy 160,000 troops into iraq. he is not going to do that into syria. this isn t about our president. he has no desire to do nation building. that s the farthest thing from his mind. so that sentiment remains. and i find it really disappointing that whether you are on the left or on the right. i have been up on twitter all night arguing with people who say they are conservative. whether you are on the left or the right, you have to understand this is a different geopolitical reality and this isn t 2003. and this isn t iraq. this is a very different situation. but we have to act for multiple reasons. pete: dr. gorka today it s syria tomorrow could be the iran deal and getting scrapped and tomorrow north korea. this strike sent signals in all of those theaters. what is this white house most focused on as far as a threat to this country? is it assad and chemical