experience, from what you have read, what you have seen and sort of what you have witnessed in the past and bringing it up to the present, do you think the ukrainians have the missile capacity right now to strike into russia s redeployment areas if they show choose? i m not sure if been the total capacity, but i can tell you they have with wherewithal and we have seen that in the defense of kyiv. we have seen it in a couple of other places. and so the more they understand what russia is bringing from the east, the more that they can take their fire power and amass it and consolidate it and understand where the targets are and put the missiles where they need to, to defeat russia. so, general, i m curious about the intricacies of a no-fly zone, which is very controversial and most will say nato should not, you know, put a no-fly zone in place because it
the overpowering air capabilities, his air defense and long range missile capacity, he does have the capacity to knock out ukraine s, most of ukraine s high tech defense. he ll have to fight people on the ground, but the ground is frozen there, he can move the tanks through the swamps north of kyiv, he could have forces outside kyiv and if they weren t actively resisted in a day. yeah, look, another option for him would be to weaponize energy, which he s done in the past as well. raises a big question as to why nato in european countries there are not more energy independent. this is something you raised in the past as well. we ll have to leave the conversation there. we ll continue to cover it and would love to have you join us again in the future. general wesley clark, thank you. thank you very much. well, up next, the partying prime minister, details emerging this morning of yet another party that boris johnson attended while he was enforcing a covid lockdown for the rest of t
ago now relatively empty. joining us now, glen goustell counsel for national security agency in both obama and trump administrations. hi, glen, can you tell anything from these satellite images? what do they tell you? it s pretty clear that this is part of putin s pattern of ratcheting up the pressure to the maximum degree possible. we ve seen a steady drip by drip effort on the part of the kremlin to increase troop presence, to engage in new exercises in belarus, showing off their missile capacity, fomenting further trouble in eastern ukraine, all part of it, coupled with cyberactivity to ratchet up the pressure to the maximum degree possible. putin is well-aware, of course, that issatellite images reveal this, all part of his plan to increase pressure, only he knows
but i ve been saying from the beginning this is going to be a slog for the russians. so the ukrainian air forces are still reportedly able to fly. i m not sure how many, you know, jets they still have. u.s. intelligence said today that nearly the entire airspace of ukraine north and south is under some umbrella of russian missile capacity, so given what you re saying ability, you know, the status of russian forces, is that what it s just going to now be, missile attacks, air attacks? well, what i think the cia director was talking about today was an air defense zone. they had multiple layers of air defense. that s the stuff from the ground up that allows their planes to fly and enemy planes not to fly. but we ve seen ukrainian planes flying pretty well. they ve had some pretty good contact. what we ve also seen, the same thing i can say about the russian ground troops, the troops that are maneuvering on the ground we can say for the
country has been most affected by a weakening economy, has it president himself doesn t know york times would write this what his next steps are going to not? it has. be. doesn t know where to stand, piece without that information there s no question about that where to go. he obviously as you re pointing and that s why you need to be contained in it. out on the saudi attack, they re are you surprised 24 hours is focused on kind of all the inputs that go into it as well. fumbling around trying to figure you know, what i mentioned out who to blame for this even it 24 hours went by before they earlier was that the skills gap is important. we re not training folks the way though it is a time he should be clarified that fact? and let me just ask also our qui and the wait for more information to come out. but the president obviously producers just put in there that doesn t want to engage in any we need to make sure they can attacks. he can t look soft on iran. this max steyer may be ta