and bandit forces in ukraine. the state department declined to comment to the post about this latest warning. let s talk about it with columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius, and national executive director of the association of u.s. navy retired navy master sergeant jason beardsly. he is a decorated combat veteran, an intelligence officer with a combined 22 years of fleet, navy, army, special forces and joint special operations experience. i want to ask him about the warship. but, first, david ignatius, this letter, which is very pointed to the u.s., a threat to an extent that things could get, quote, unpredictable. at the same time what are ukrainians and what is the west supposed to do, let ukraine lose? ukrainians are doing way better than anybody might have thought. are they supposed to pull back for fear of more atrocities? what are the options at stake?
in some way, shape or form. if chemical weapons cannot be confirmed, is it safe to make an assumption they are an inevitability in this war? well, thank you for the introduction. i think an inevitability is a little bit too aggressive. obviously the russians are not acting like a professional military. that s pretty habitual for them. you talk about the bucha massacres and what we saw in syria. this is not a disciplined military, and on top of that, as your reporting has laid out wonderfully this morning, everything from the beginning of this invasion from intelligence to military logistics and supplies has been a mess. now putin is looking to take out that vengeance on his internal fsb agents as well as the military. this thing is a disaster. the real advantage here for president biden is to really enter just to interject into this campaign right now as they re shifting to the east more lethal munitions. that has to be done asap. yeah. jason, first of all, thank you so much for
response in kind if chemical weapons were used. they then walked off that and said it doesn t mean we will use chemical weapons back but there will be a proportional response here that would up the stakes. right now the administration is being very careful to see what exactly happened. they re going to take their time to evaluate it, but it undoubtedly would change the course of the war. perhaps, one official said to me, that might be the straw that causes that breaks the camel s back, if you will, and causes europe to totally severe itself from russian oil and gas if chemical weapons were used and it would increase that much more the flow of arms to the front. all right. let s bring in national executive director of the association of the u.s. navy, jason beardsly. he is a decorated combat veteran and intelligence officer with a combined 22 years of fleet, navy, army, special forces and joint special operations experience. sir, thank you for being on this morning. it appears put
this is when we talk about the crisis that s developing here, this is the situation because this line right here, and i want you to look back down because it just continues to go, this situation is stretching this area to its limits. and unfortunately, craig, we know a lot more people are on the way. it really does break your heart. jay gray for us there on the ground in poland. jay, thank you. jason beardsly, thank you, sir, for your insight and analysis and kelly o donnell, thanks as always from the white house. thank you all. a live look at the senate intelligence committee and we re showing you this because there s a hearing happening right now, countries top intel officials talking about the biggest security threats to the united states and the dni just laid out the number one priority for us as we try to help ukraine from this russian invasion. we ll talk about that. first, though, vice president harris in poland this morning. she s working to smooth things
close the sky. no, you have to ask to our people who lost their children and say, sorry, we didn t do it yesterday. jason, can you help our viewers understand and our listeners on siriusxm satellite radio why this no-fly zone has been a nonstarter for the administration? yeah, 100%. we re reeling still from our 20 years inside iraq and afghanistan. american lives are at risk when we enforce these no-fly zone zones. what that really means is after those 20 years, we have to look back and make a decision. does the united states want to write more checks with the sons and daughters of our american citizens in the service of defending the skies over ukraine? what the white house has done, which i think is pretty clever, let s hand the weapons or money, lethal munitions over to the