calculation on how he ace approaches things and an opportunity for us to push back along with others. think about the timing, the berlin wall just fell a couple years before that, there was this sense that democracy was winning, and so, yeah, we should really get in the way of this. boy, we are in a different pertain globally. it distill feel like every country is we talk about america first, it feels like every country themselves is first now. no other country wants to be invade. you mentioned china and taiwan. we still think nominally is under chinese sovereignty, even though de facto, but it s not a member of the united states. there are plenty other countries who feel pressure from china. they have territory that china disputes, and the south china seas, you know, japan, vietnam, south korea, there s a lot of
in wider ukraine but around the world this morning for the young woman. the worst possible way, the consequences of putin s actions, there are consequences in relation to the suffering, that we re seeing within ukraine, 2.4 million ukrainians have fled ukraine, many not able to, and we re seeing the consequences of putin s aggression. that s why it is so important for the rest of the world to be united in relation to our condemnation in war terms of what putin is doing. some of evidence we ve heard, in relation to allegations of what was used, the weapons used, some of the targets, the targets, civilian targets, according to the definition, is a war crime. the russian embassy in the u.k. here, in your city, said that was fake news. it is pretty important for us to push back in relation to what the russian embassy is saying,
logistics. perhaps the greatest logistic power in the world. we need to leverage that power to enable nato to push supplies as quickly as we possibly can and help the poor ukrainian people and ensure that their will to fight continues. you mentioned the importance, whether it is military supply lines or food supply lines or the like. if you come back to look at this, yes, the russian assault on kyiv has been plotting. where russia has had some success is here in the southern part. you see russian troops coming out of crimea. there have been russian troops in the disputed areas for a long time. here, russia controlling most of the southern coast. odesa remains. what would be the significance, whether it is food, military supplies, psychologically, if the russians take the entire southern strip? well, that would be a significant loss. odesa is a major port to the black sea. warm water port. obviously, russians wanted to take that away from the ukrainians. a lot of their wheat and iro
they re doing, which has been phenomenal, and hope that mr. putin comes to his senses. president biden has made clear he has no intention of sending u.s. troops to fight for ukraine, but the biden administration is talking with some european allies, slovakia, poland, romania about sending systems and other weaponry into the war. nothing yet. russia s deputy prime minister has warned the u.s. that any convoys carrying foreign weapons into ukraine would be, quote, legitimate targets. when you hear that, what does that say to you? well, again, i think that they re grasping at straws. i think that s absolutely what we need to do. we need to enable our nato allies and partners to push troops supplies in. the american army and the american the incredible logistics capability of our nation, which is a great element of our national power, needs to be brought to bear here. and to the extent we can help our nato partners to push
with about 70 ngos, who are delivering aid on the ground. we want to be sure that people can get food and medicine. try to stem this humanitarian crisis. and on the military side, everyone wants to win. your prior guests alluded to this. the resilience, the determination, the patriotism of the ukrainian people, how they feel about their democracy. they want to fight, they want to win, and they want to rebuild. so we need to give them every tool we have to win this war, now. not just sustain themselves. to push putin back, continue to isolate him. move him off the world stage, stop this brutality. i know that you have advocated for fighter jets to be given to ukraine. zelenskyy has asked for this repeatedly. the u.s. is not necessarily onboard, as of yet. we ve been giving them weapons. we ve been giving them humanitarian aid. why not the fighter jets? have you got an reason? well, the fighter jets, it s