The seaport would be locked, and no commercial ships can go there and pick up all the food. Supply will be stopped. We calculated over 200,000 families would be affected, losing their livelihood, probably for a generation, 25 years. The clean up would have cost 20 billion, thats the best estimate that we received. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Spill leaked Hundreds Of Thousands of gallons of crude into the gulf of alaska, a slick that covered over 1,000 miles of coastline. Even now, pockets of oil are still being discovered. Yet on yemens fso safer, four times as much oil. This is big. And i looked at the first price tag of, how are we going to raise 141; million . In the end, after two years and between 23 countries, private companies and even the general public, enough funds were raised to launch an operation to transfer the oil. An Elementary School in bethesda, maryland. Kids, six, seven, eight years old, heard about this and went out and raised. They sold lemonade or whatever they cou
Theres major breakthroughs in the south. The Land Mine Situation was incredible. I could not be more proud of how theyve used the Military Equipment provided by our countries. Theyre putting pressure, theyve broken through the first defensive line. I think theyll split the Russian Forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. So i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. Well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from Classified Pentagon documents suggesting, and im quoting here from a leak in the washington post, that kyiv wont fulfil its Principal Objective of severing that land bridge to crimea in this years counter offensive. I think theyre wrong. Those same people told us kyiv would fall in four days, that the whole country would be in russian hands in two weeks. I go there enough to know whats real and whats not. Its been extremely tough sledding because of all the mines, but when they get contact with the russians, th
senator lindsey graham an ally of donald trump. is the seemingly never ending trump soap opera about to plunge the us into turmoil? senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. senator, you are one of the strongest republican supporters of ukraine and of us military assistance to ukraine. right. would you acknowledge that, right now, the war isn t going the way you wanted it to, or indeed the way you expected it to just a few months ago? not at all. i think it s going exceedingly well. i just got back from ukraine last wednesday. there s major breakthroughs in the south. the land mine situation was incredible. i could not be more proud of how they ve used the military equipment provided by our countries. they re putting pressure, they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may
plunge the us into turmoil? senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. senator, you are one of the strongest republican supporters of ukraine and of us military assistance to ukraine. right. would you acknowledge that, right now, the war isn t going the way you wanted it to, or indeed the way you expected it to just a few months ago? not at all. i think it s going exceedingly well. i just got back from ukraine last wednesday. there s major breakthroughs in the south. the land mine situation was incredible. i could not be more proud of how they ve used the military equipment provided by our countries. they re putting pressure, they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from classified pentagon documents suggesting and i m quoting
they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from classified pentagon documents suggesting and i m quoting here from a leak in the washington post that kyiv won t fulfil its principal objective of severing that land bridge to crimea in this year s counter offensive. i think they re wrong. those same people told us kyiv would fall in four days, that the whole country would be in russian hands in two weeks. i go there enough to know what s real and what s not. it s been extremely tough sledding because of all the mines, but when they get contact with the russians, the russians fold pretty quickly. you ve got a bunch of conscripts that would rather not die in ukraine if they didn t have to. you ve got highly motivated ukrainian civilian populat