peaceful transition of power, then the idea of democracy would be an absurdity. what is democracy defined as? it s when people can vote for their leaders. unless you can trust that vote is fairly counted and people accept a loss, this is what happened in the civil war. i m not saying we re there yet. the important thing to understand is the 1850s built up little by little by little to 1861, and we re still in that state where we can write the next chapter of our story. so there s a dramatic moment that s chaptured in the documentary, a historical moment when lincoln is told in 1864 he s going to lose the election in november unless he s willing to compromise on emancipation, the people are exhausted, they just want this war over, and they know that the people won t come to the peace table from the south unless he s willing to compromise on emancipation. he said i ll be damned in time and eternity if i went back on my word. it s that kind of understanding of right and wrong, being willi
warning. i think johnson s decision was one of the results of a new hampshire primary. lyndon johnson was not a quitter. i think he had counted his votes and he didn t see it as a winning proposition. a substantial amount of the support for the war in vietnam had diminished. there are many who saw lbj s opting not to run again as quitting on the war in vietnam. lbj believed that by making this tacit gesture, ho chi minh would agree to come to the peace table. he really thought that he could resolve the war and settle the war in vietnam if he didn t run. he said nobody can say that what i m doing is political. i m doing it because i want to settle that war. i want to get the boys home. and the other factor was still his health issues. he had a phrase that i bet i
to the peace table, and that is inevitable. the only question is how many more lives must be lost? how many more bombs must fall? how many mariupols must be destroyed? how many more ukrainians and russians will be killed before everyone realises that this war has no winners, only losers? how many more people left to die in ukraine? and how many people around the world will have to face hunger for this to stop? continuing the war in ukraine is morally unacceptable, politically indefensible and militarily nonsensical. our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, is in kyiv. she gave us her reaction to ukraine s president saying the country is on the brink of surviving .
later it will have to move from the battlefield to the peace table, and thatis battlefield to the peace table, and that is inevitable. the only question is how many more lives must be lysed? how many more bombs must fall? how many mariupol s must be destroyed? how many more ukrainians and russians will be killed before everyone realises that this war has no winners, on the losers. the people left to die in ukraine and the many people around the world who will have to face hunger for this to stop. meanwhile, president biden has warned that vladimir putin could use chemical and biological weapons in ukraine. a former british defence intelligence officer gave this assessment on that warning: vladimir putin has used chemical weapons vladimir putin has used chemical weapons in the past, 2017 in salisbury weapons in the past, 2017 in salisbury with another chalk, but also in salisbury with another chalk, but also in syria. so it s part of his playbook also in syria. so it s part of his
cut ukraine off the scene. they could try to consolidate their control of a very significant chunk of ukrainian territory to be the basis of the negotiated settlement that putin wants, which is essentially a de facto partition where russia consumes a big chunk of the eastern part of ukraine and cuts them off from the sea. that is something the ukrainians will never accept at the peace table. never. so we still have a long way to go here before there is a possible outcome here that can be agreed to by all sides. i agree with the general in the sense that the russians pull back a little bit from her on, kyiv they will be trying to re-fortify their own positions. it is important that we do not let up on the and fortune of sanctions. we have seen the little given the sanctions regime over the course of the last couple of weeks. that is natural it would happen. it means you have to really get after reinforcement, and henry supplying the ukrainians themselves, who have gone on the offense ar