and planned this. in a way like general mccaffrey was talking about before, take small bites in chunks, trying to work on the french and germans to come to their side. which not do anything, and incrementally take all of ukraine overtime. i think that is really where it is going to get troublesome here in the next couple of weeks. the biden ministration will have to decide how far wants to go. so malcolm, since you have been traveling around the country. what is your sense around with that approach will look like. you gave us that sort of vivid destruction of what it would look like in kyiv. and what are your thoughts about that approach and how it would play out? the russians are going to carry out a military operation with various phase lands, they think that they can control once they start the operation. kyiv itself is its own entire phase. you have to get the study of how they re going to get down to the capital city. i spent two weeks doing.
the biden administration will have to decide how far it wants to go. so malcolm, since you have been traveling around the country. what is your sense around with that approach will look like. you gave us that sort of vivid destruction of what it would look like in kyiv. and what are your thoughts about that approach and how it would play out? the russians are going to carry out a military operation with various phase lands, they think that they can control once they start the operation. kyiv itself is its own entire phase. you have to get the study of how they re going to get down to the capital city. i spent two weeks just doing that. they re going to have to attack on three different fronts. a western front, central front and eight eastern front. but the ukrainians have an army. this army appears ready to fight. it appears that they have the ability to slow this down. the russians want to establish a piecemeal swath of the entire
extend their reach here in the east because with that extension, he will take over, putin will take over all the regions in the donbas that he has claimed as being separate and independent states. those independent states of course are tied to russia. and what that of course means is it s really going to be a russia public regime there. putin what s to establish a public regime throughout the entire country. . look, let s be clear, now, you expected a broad approach from putin. but let s just be clear. this, this is the separatist-controlled area of donetsk and luhansk. this is the border of those areas. a question of does he take off a bite? does he go further in? the answer here is very clear. it s also prompting a response from the u.s. in the form of new troops coming to the north. . absolutely. north of here, north of belarus, you have latvia, lithuania and estonia, the baltic states.
whipping white parents into a frenzy over learning history or people that are different from you, or about wearing masks to prevent a virus from spreading and killing people, i guess there are consequences. while not all violence can be connected to a country s politics, we are in a dangerous atmosphere in america right now. particularly for conservatives, politics is everything from a tribal identity to a religious movement. one might even call it a cult. and it s not like we haven t been here before. the old democrats did it. and the republicans who morphed from that are doing it now. and today s republican party, who, let s be clear, are now the party of trump, not lincoln, have decided to use the worst tendencies of the disgraced former president to still them down into a fine wine of anger and hysteria, for the purpose of gaining power. they and their media friends aren t stopping.
leader of his country, frustrated. he seems to be as frustrated with the west as he is with putin. no, chuck, he is clearly frustrated with putin. he has allies. he was there addressing the allies in munich. he has complaints about more support he would like to have, but the real villain in the case, let s be clear, is sitting in the kremlin. when you hear about this anything do to stop war, is there anything reasonable to discuss? probably not careen ukraine and russia. there s reasonable discussions to be had between russia and the united states. the russians are after things that ukraine can t really deliver. the russians are after just a pawn? ukraine has a gun to its head while the russians are negotiating with the americans,