he s cared a great deal about pow around russia. at the same time when it comes to russia, this has been prolonged. this mobilization that s gone on. he s put a lot of troops out there. and the fact that there s been some hesitancy here creating some mixed signals. why? because he knows that indeed it is going to be a heavy price. that russia s going to pay a heavy price in terms of its economy. in terms of killing russians in a war. in terms of undermining their ability to be able to descript oil to the rest of the world and a global economy. it s going to hurt russia, and it s going to hurt him. and i really think that he can t just ignore that. he s got an opportunity here to be able to use some leverage to
going to draw a distinction between the javelins and stingers that are coming across killing russians very effectively from jets protecting the skies above? that has actually been one of my questions today. what is the difference between these things? look, we can draw this distinction. we can quibble over whether it really matters if someone takes off from poland or germany, but at some point in time we have to ask ourselves who are we as a country. why did we form nato? are we going to allow this to happen? if anyone imagines that this is going to get better anytime soon, this is going to be protracted hell on earth. images we saw as kids watching the blitzkrieg in black and white, well, these are real, they re happening now and, hell, we can do something about it. the response, i know you know it, if the united states gets more involved, it establishes a
no-fly zone. it s nato and russian jets fighting each other, killing russians. but it sounds like you re growing more in support of the idea because it s hard to it s hard to discern if a line already hasn t been crossed, in your mind? absolutely. in the final analysis, every argument is prefaced with, well, they re not part of nato. we defend every inch of nato. hasn t ukraine earned that right to be treated because what ukraine is fighting,its principles are the very reason we formed nato. if we allow tyrants to take a sovereign, democratic country, and not fight on the exact terms in the ways they re being massacred, again, zelenskyy saturday asked us directly, don t allow us to be exterminated. it has to be a lesson for all those who gave their last full measure of devotion in the second war to end such threats.
do we honestly think putin is going to draw a distinction between the javelins and stingers coming across killing russians very effectively? from jets protecting the skies above? has the administration screwed this up? oh, yeah. i mean, yes, no, maybe to everything what are they for? you listen to secretary blinken and there is a process to a process to have a meeting and maybe we will green light it but no we won t that s not the right priority there is a frickin war going on and really tough to get the administration to be for anything. this is not leading from behind. this is just not leading period. bret: what about intelligence assessment, according to kirby today that by providing the jets it somehow escalates and putin could retaliate in a bigger way to congressman quigley s point we are funneling in thousands and thousands of javelins and stingers and other equipment. well, it s important to recognize that putin has a
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