brian: china is fully militarizing three of the islands they made in the south china sea. the move coming as communist country leaders fail to condemn russia s war in ukraine. it never occurred to them. why can t you condemn this as an invasion? um-huh, well, let s don t be naive. condemnation. it sounds naive to say that s not an invasion. it doesn t solve the problem. brian: don t be naive. we are not naive that s a scary part. they think we are. former commander of the u.s. naval europe and africa admiral. great to see you. what was your reaction to that response? well, what i think we have in the form of the ambassador is another one of the wolf warriors, brian used to be i met
the battle feeding is clearly weakened and all the while ukrainians are getting stronger and more effective on the field. ainsley: the president says they are using those missiles because it s the only thing they can get through. what if vladimir putin does escalate this to the next weapon and uses chemical weapons. i assume you have a contingency plan. what would that be? nobody wants to see that kind of rhetoric coming out of vladimir putin is biological call and chemical weapons and all of that is unhelpful and not the way a responsible power would communicate. i don t want to get into hypotheticals, ainsley, but the president has been very clear that there would be consequences. there would be there would be consequences from the international community from the united states should vladimir putin decide to use weapons of mass destruction. ainsley: lindsey graham said that would be an opportunity for a no-fly zone. he said that would be an opportunity for nato to get involv
preparing this. and earning huge amounts on export of gas and oil. their goal is not just ukraine it s europe. control over your life, over your politics, over your values. not just ours. democracy, human rights, equality, freedom. these are the same values we have. ukraine [inaudible] russia is the europe, ukraine, one of the first you know, you need to help during pandemic. when you needed it. we sent our doctors. italians were one of the first people who came to our to help us. you supported us. sincerely.
the fuel depots are being destroyed. we don t know if we will be able to export when our ports are blocked. our corn we plant oil, wheat, and many other goods. needed goods, including for your neighbors the price is already increasing a lot of people will need help. italian people, you know ukrainians very well. ukrainians never wanted to fight. it s as european as you are. you know who gives orders to fight. you know who propagates it.
you could see the anger and lack of preparedness to actually deal with the actual issues for pretending by saying that they have no influence over russia. so, when you look at what china is happy about, they are happy focused on ukraine and not on them. meanwhile, every day that goes by, the islands that they created about 10 years ago have become more and more militarize militarized. former commanders of naval forces for europe on china, he was on with us. and he talked about this build up, this boiling frog theory that they have to slowly take over the south china sea. we will not let them do it. but he pointed out how close they are to executing their plan. watch. i think this is part of a broader strategy that allows china to project power and become a global power. and also to threaten taiwan. you know, you have heard that