bret? bret: china is now warning of military reaction if house speaker nancy pelosi goes through with a planned visit to taiwan ples feeling pressure from people who feels she needs to go and system saying she should not go. here is correspondent gillian turner. there is no change of policy in terms of did american government officials traveling to taiwan. the white house national security team insist they have no say in whether or not speaker pelosi visits taiwan. outside the white house though cabinet officials are all but begging her not to go. i remain concerned. you have heard me say this before. about the aggressiveness of the prcand the kinds of things we he been seeing in the region lately. and so i think we have to be lidge lent. chinese communist party officials definitely don t want speaker pelosi in taiwan. they be now threatening a military response. if the u.s. side insists on making the visit and challenges
force today join the community of nations and putin has the choice at that point. we need to give him the ability to understand that the nation is going to survive. neil: commander, we re going to keep the sanctions in place no matter the outcome of the war, i don t see the sanctions going away as long as he s the top guy. i wish i could agree, but you look how the world has reacted in iraq with saddam hussein, and other places. as time goes on, the world grows bored and find the excuse to lower our guard one after another and in rules based order, we cannot have that happen. neil: well pointed out. and i should note to argue military reaction to you, commander. how stupid of me. no, no, not at all, a discussion. neil: always good to seeing you, my friend. kirk lippold, the former u.s.s.
and they are now being prepared again to be moved to either underground or perhaps to poland as the city is bracing for what is to come. lawrence? john spencer, we just heard president biden say today that putin he just said putin may be able to take a city, but he ll never be able to hold the country. meaning putin might have some regional control and some places in ukraine, but will not be able to hold the country. what was your military reaction to that assessment? almost a common sense one and now that we re seeing the will and the figure of the ukrainian people. putin can take all the cities. he ll face the biggest urban insurgency known to man, make afghanistan look like a good day in russia. and what would it look like to us if latin we are putin, if the russian army appears to take control at least at first?
they would be removing ukrainians calling for military reaction to invaders. that would be unacceptable and we made the change. this is a very big deal though, first of allth it s certainly points up the incredible power of facebook at a moment like this. andt interesting to see facebo and instagram being restricted in russia. russia is as of november 2019 had institutedf a sovereign internet law. thatgn allows the russian government to disconnect from the global internet. which would allow it to cut things off in a time of emergency. what this is is that actually coming to bear. it turns out now the russian government can restrict information. such that if you only watch russian tv, and if you only listen to official sources on their internal internet in russia, you would essentially have no connection to independent western reporting on ukraine. you can have a totally misguided sense of what s going on in
is able to get away with. the red lines meant something, but not very much, in syria. there were numerous chemical weapons attacks, some of which killed over 1,000 people outside of damascus which left hundreds of children dead. and then a smaller chemical attack under president trump had a small military reaction. i think if this country saw a chemical weapons attack particularly if it were murky, if it were deniable, i think that the u.s. and nato will be in a very tough position whether they would respond or not. but from the ukrainians, it is good sign that they are not ready to launch a chemical weapon. but sources are telling me that there is this heightened concern about chemical with thats.