to taiwan. the u.s. has never been less ready for war particularly forward with china. the biden administration has done everything it can to make certain we are not ready. for a war with china or even with taliban. biden has since the day he took office politicized and weakened the united states military systematically to the point we are not going to win a war against china. sorry, that s true. general mark milley out there telling congress that soldiers need to learn about white rage because otherwise they ll be unprepared for combat. attacking people on the basis of their skin color? right. firing navy seals because they won t get the vaccine. the healthiest people in the world? and they are fired? because they won t get the vaccine. to make totally clear with the point is the point of course is humiliation and degradation and destruction of centuries of military tradition.
for many fins, russia s invasion of ukraine has reawakened memories of the country s own wars against the soviet union, when only a strong military tradition saved the country from being forcibly incorporated into the communist state. from finland, our special correspondent, allan little reports. finland may be a small country, but it has one of the biggest armies in europe. defence and security are not just a matter for the armed forces here, they are woven into the fabric of the civic life of the country. we have a firm of the civic life of the country. - have a firm role in society. we still have a conscription which means that the majority of finns are some part of the national defence via conscription. ghee some part of the national defence via conscription. via conscription. give me some of how big the via conscription. give me some of how big the parties via conscription. give me some of how big the parties are? - via conscription. give me some of how big the parties are?
the only city that s really fallen is the city of kherson, which is now basically occupied. it s the only occupied city in all of ukraine. and now the russians are entering, as you said, a troubling new phase of this war and it s not new for other russian invasions. we ve seen it before in chechnya and in syria. they re going to be surrounding these cities and in the great russian tradition of using artillery, which goes back all the way to the czar where they ve relied on artillery, it takes pride and place in russian military tradition, they are simply going to pound these cities into submission. that s what they ve been doing in kyiv. that s what they ve really been doing in mariupol. this dangerous new phase is really the result of stiff ukrainian resistance in the face of this russian incursion.
pi pitched a win at age 47. how do you feel about pitching a win on your birthday? and he looked at them and said, boys, that s not how i look at age. boys, that s not how i look at age. i look at it this way. how old would you be if you didn t know how old you were? you re 65, i m 60. god love you. thank you, thank you, thank you. boy, oh, boy. there you go. i ll tell you what, my guess is you just saw two moments between a president and a pope that you have never seen before and you will never see again. first one, big military tradition, but presidents also, they have coins that are called command coins and with the military it is a sign of regard,