can use deadly physical force to prevent that woman from engaging in deadly physical force towards another person and did it in a way where he didn t kill her. this is an example of excellence police work. may have saved her life and no telling who else s, i have never been to this town in minnesota. i can imagine there s not a huge defund the police movement there politically speaking. as you point out, it s the ripple effect when you have that movement elsewhere and cops are leaving and then you wind up drawing them from small towns. it doesn t matter what, you know, you might have the right, you know, politics about things but still suffering the consequences of these sort of big city democrat utopia ideas. jessica: i think it s fair to say there s a national police morale problem. that they are nationally underpaid, that they are nationally mistreated in some circumstances, and we ve covered a lot of stories like this. it it always sticks in my mind. remember the police officer
legitimate issue, and it s a real question. 80-year-olds, he ll be 86 the end of the second term. i think that you i would embrace it to some degree, and they are starting to do this more. he is doing it through humor some, but more so to say, you know, remember when george washington, the moment the revolutionary war, and there s a big morale problem on the u.s. side, and he gave a speech to the troops and had to put the speck spectacles on. he was like, i m sorry, my eyes have grown weak in service to my country. everybody was like, we need to back him up. fdr, the most feeble president saying, i am old but i m wise, and this is the leadership we need. you have to show that he can do the job. but i think, you know, molly, what you did really well in this piece, to lay out, is sort of the litany of the issues that
used to talk about the expectation that when the ukrainians really punched through, the russians would collapse. that hasn t happened so far, has it? it hasn t happened, because they haven t been able to punch through. i mean, i think there is a morale problem in the russian lines. there s no question about it. a lot of them, a lot of the russian soldiers, don t want to be there. remember that, you know, this whole thing was supposed to be over in a matter of days. they re not particularly well fed or commanded or led. they re in a relatively good position, the russians, in that where they re dug in in these lines, they ve got a lot of overhead cover, they ve got artillery protection, they ve got helicopters backing up behind that, they ve in some cases got air superiority. so then quite a strong position. but you re absolutely right, if the ukrainians were able to find a way through the minefields and drive a wedge through those lines, i think it s perfectly possible we could see mass
and criminality, but the answer some experts in france are saying, lies in better policing. while france has been burning, the war in ukraine has been grinding on and the russians do seem to be giving a little ground. there is a morale problem in the russian line. a lot of the russian soldiers don t want to be there. they re not particularly well fed or commanded or led. another darker side of ukraine s war, the deserters who pay off ukrainian officials and escape to romania. there will be, i think, a reckoning who did what, who made money out of it, who fled, who fought, who gave their lives? and what will really happen to the looted objects in european museums? as these countries try to become the countries they want, they really
and criminality, but the answer some experts in france are saying, lies in better policing. while france has been burning, the war in ukraine has been grinding on and the russians do seem to be giving a little ground. there is a morale problem in the russian line. a lot of the russian soldiers don t want to be there. they re not particularly well fed or commanded or led. another darker side of ukraine s war, the deserters who pay off ukrainian officials and escape to romania. there will be, i think, a reckoning who did what, who made money out of it, who fled, who fought, who gave their lives? and what will really happen to the looted objects in european museums? as these countries try to become the countries they want, they really want to be in the 21st century,