combatting china. president biden will spend the next days in south korea before heading to japan to meet with leaders there. before returning home to d.c. on tuesday, he ll attend a meeting of the quad leaders. which includes japan, india, and australia. and in ukraine, russian forces are stepping up attacks on the eastern donbas region. at least 12 people were killed and 40 injured after russia unleashed new rounds of shelling in a key city in luhansk. one of the few ukrainian strong holds standing in the way of russia seizing full control of the don bass. the attacks could be a precursor to a larger drawn out battle. president volodymyr zelenskyy called the strikes, quote, brutal and completely pointless. willie. meanwhile, the u.k. ministry of defense has released new information reporting the battle for mariupol has left the russian military weakened. the fierce fighting against ukrainian troops who held out inside of that steel plant has depleted russia s ranks and re
information offensive if you will but how much he had done to modernize this great russian military. we bought into this idea of the doctrine name for the chief of the general staff. hybrid warfare, they were supposedly masters of. and yet it is turned out they ve been inept in virtually every category by which you could evaluate a military force. at the time, i think a degree of caution was in order. we had to be very careful and we thought not to provoke russia. and as we have reassessed, of course even at the beginning of this war, there was hesitation even to arm ukraine, to provide certain weapons for fear that they would fall into the hands of the russians very quickly and so forth. so we ve continually recessed this. but i think again that thinking at the time probably was correct. it is impossible knowing what we know now to objectively look
to become masters of. scaramucci may turn out to be a natural but he certainly has not had a long apprenticeship in the subject. jon: communications are all about selling your accomplishment, what you hope to accomplish and sort of bending people to your will with your persuasiveness. not his personal persuasiveness, but the people he puts out. for instance, this weekend, who are you going to put out? will you be pushing health care, fighting back about russia, the stories today about the president and who he can pardon. you have to make strategic