that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it s been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don t do this. we don t want to see you do this, but they wouldn t exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president s aides try to walk this back saying he wasn t articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for him to come out and say explicitly they would do that. not just that they would provide arms to ukraine or arms to taiwan and weapons to taiwan like they are doing with ukraine, but saying they would go one step further, john. of course, it s a statement the president has come close to saying before. he articulated it very bluntly with no clarifications, no caveats. you can have aides walk it bac
middle of the war in ukraine. suzanne malveaux from lviv with more. it s a remarkable story with shame, guilt, if you will. this junior russian officer giving an exclusive behind the scenes of his experience. it was february 22nd. that massive buildup along the border with ukraine. he and his unit were a part of that. he says on that day he was ordered to give over his cell phone. he lost communication with the outside world. he was also ordered to paint a z, the zs on those military vehicles that later would come to symbolize russia s invasion of ukraine. the next day they went to crimea, the russian annexed territory. it was february 24th, that day a shocker for him. that is when they were ordered to go into ukraine. he says, we were hammered with ukrainian nazi rhetoric. many did not understand what this was all for and what we were doing here.