remote roads around the country, the laying of mines in key shipping lanes, the preparation of land defenses such as blowing up bridges. he says, quote, all armed forces headquarters are located in hillsides under 30 to 40 meters of granite. so they are ready. and here we have russia failing in ukraine. they thought they would run roughshod over ukraine, they thought they would take kyiv within days. they thought they would decapitate the ukrainian government and take over the country in less than a week. it is now 47 thing days after this, there continue to pound away having failed in all of their efforts thus far. their new efforts or that they are trying to kill as many civilians as possible, trying to destroy as much civilian infrastructure in the country as they can while trying to salvage something that they can tell their own people was them. at one level, this is all supposedly because putin is so sensitive about having nato get so close to russia s borders. in the next few wee
salvage something that they can tell their own people was them. at one level, this is all supposedly because putin is so sensitive about having nato get so close to russia s borders. in the next few weeks, it is very likely that russia is about to get a new country in nato with which it shares an 830 mile long border. finland is a country that humiliated the soviet union. in wartime before. finland spent the subsequent 80 plus years making themselves phenomenally resilient for any future russian threat and preparing to repulse the next russian attack, which they fully fully expect. how is that going to work out? and again, this is gonna come to fruition, this is all gonna come to a head within the next few weeks. united states is the leading military force in nato. how should the united states be preparing for these eventuality?
congressman. getting arrested is like a right of passage for new york state politicians at this point. but today, we have a new one. today, the lieutenant governor of new york, democrat brian benjamin resigned as governor which is a job he s only been in for seven months. his resignation came hours after he appeared in federal court pleaded not guilty to a five count felony corruption indictment. prosecutors are accusing him of pressuring a donor to give thousands of dollars to his campaign and exchange for him hooking the donor up with a state grand. he s also accused of lying to cover it all up. here s how the new york times describes the sort of medias of the allegations. quote, prosecutors said that mr. benjamin first approach the donor for help in march 2019, months before mr. benjamin announced a campaign for state comptroller. prosecutors say the donor told mr. benjamin he was wary of pressuring his network of donors to give me on what they had already contributed to his charity
and it is going to pass soon, apparently. a former prime minister of finland tells the afp this week that it is a foregone conclusion that finland will request nato membership, and the requests will happen within the next few weeks. it will happen in time for the next nato summit in june. now, russia has responded by threatening that there s going to be consequences of that happens. consequences, including military consequences, if tunisians join nato. but these aren t just two countries. particularly finland. since the winter war in 1940, finland has been getting ready for those kinds of threats from this country that invaded them before. and at least now is implicitly threatening that they might do it again. finland is actually remarkably ready for those threats. in finland, the country maintain secure stockpiles of at least a six month supply of all major food grains, things like oats, and wheat, they also maintain a six month stockpile
that s as far as it went. you hear that kind of facile cliché about what the news used to be. here too. you hear very smart people this are that that was true, that the media and the good old days, can we just go back to that? the problem with that is that if you actually go back and listen to what the news was like, in the good old days, it blows that thesis out of the water almost instantly. take for example the dripping sarcasm in this news reel from the a four mentioned good old days. peaceful finland, that just a northern country of lakes and fjords, of sailing ships and summer bathing beaches, has been invaded and bombed. long crisis of apparently if you re telling negotiation with