ratios. if you are in the military, you want a 3-1 ratio. you get into a city fight, you are talking 6-10 to 1. block to block, building by building, and he could lose this fight. this is the fight for the survival of ukraine. if he loses here, putin loses the war because that s what happened in world war ii. john: talk about the siege of kyiv, is he going to turn that into a massive version of mariupol? which has been decimated. the city has not been leveled, per se, but it has been so unbelievably damaged years to come back, and the impact to the civilian population, targets like the maternity hospital hit. is that what he s going do here? yes, old soviet tactics of mass artillery. kyiv is a 2,000-year-old city, population of 1.5 million, used to be 3 million and saw the scenes earlier. scenes like this, horrific.
was done. the strategic heart of the russian attempt now to take ukraine is terror attacks on civilians. we may not have seen the extent of it yet. they have not used mass artillery. 5,000, 10,000 rounds a day against some of these cities. it is a very grim situation for the ukrainians still. yup. general, if you were advising president biden, what would you tell him the united states has to get into ukraine immediately? well, we can t build, you know, a similar military force in ukraine to challenge the russians in the air and on the ground and on the sea. it s not going to happen. it takes a year, for example, to deploy patriot missile and get a maintenance package and training and operators. some of this isn t going to change. secretary austin is out there