for example, the danes gave every howitzer that they had in the fight for ukraine. i ll remind everyone, it was a total of 12 howitzers. 155 howitzers. so a lot of these nations don t have the same level of equipment that the united states does. as we re assigning dollars spent in the effort for ukraine, a lot of that, again, we re not sending cash to the ukrainian government or to their people. we re sending military equipment. much of this military equipment is equipment that is not used by our american military anymore. it doesn t have the same qualitative military edge as what we re sending in to ukraine. we re taking it out of warehouses and sending it forward. so just reminding folks, we give our troops the absolute best, we re sending other equipment to ukraine. martha: okay. are you in favor of sending the
indefinitely, i believe the clock may be moving closer to aggressive military action against taiwan as opposed to being later. why is that? one, because he knows, julie, he has a military advantage right now. and eventually that military advantage will be closed by the united states. two, he has some economic setbacks now but they re due to get worse. so i think we re getting into a much more dangerous moment. julie: i want to switch gears for a second and touch on ukraine/russia. sunday national security council coordinator john kirby is the u.s. is considering the possibility of providing fighter jets to ukraine. they wanted that since day one and united states was reluctant to do that. does it give ukraine a military edge over russia? remember originally when the united states was asked to assist we didn t because we didn t want to provoke russia. do we no longer care about provoking russia? what has changed?
well, wolf, first off just the name of it, the jerusalem declaration for the debates it was important that former president donald trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel and it s important that president biden has not moved the embassy back to tel aviv. even the name of this declaration calling it the jerusalem declaration will likely be seen as a win for israel. important for israel in this is that there is an american commitment to israel s defense, to it s qualitative military edge as well as a commitment to never allow iran hadas, i m going to interrupt you because they are about to have their opening statements beginning. i think with the prime minister of israel. from selma to montgomery.
and in return, i promise you, i hope it has been demonstrated since i ve been president. that we as a nation will uphold the sacred duty we have to hold our military men and women to prepare, properly eequipment you before we send you into harm s way. when we do, to care for you and your family when you come home. and that s why we re doing so much at veterans affairs as well. it is a sacred obligation. so i want to thank you all again. i m looking forward to the discussion. and i thank the press for coming in. thank you. [ inaudible question ] thank you for coming! it doesn t sound like he will take any of those questions. let s go back to mj lee at the white house. your thoughts on what the president just said. reporter: yeah, one thing
maintain our military edge. in return, i promise you and i hope it s been demonstrated since i ve been president that we as a nation with all the sacred duty that we he you to prepare you properly and equip you before we send you in to harms s way. when we do, to care for those and your family when you come home. that s why we re doing so much at the veterans affairs as well. it s a sacred obligation. so i want to thank you again. looking forward to our discussion and thank the press for coming in. thank you. neil: the president with his top military advisers saying that one thing that vladimir putin did not count on is how united nato would be and remains in the face of the war of ukraine. he said he s going to continue to bolster ukrainian artillery and air power.