is at the pentagon tonight. jan griffin. this is escalated over the weekend as putin made an announcement with the nuclear forces on readiness. what does that mean and how is the pentagon thinking about that. is a very serious situation today putin announced he was putting his and clear forces in the heightened state of alert. this got attention washington and nato capitals. nobody wants to overreact to what he s doing. clearly putin is trying to get attention. i have to respond that your previous guest what general said. he was way off the mark in terms of talking about what the u.s. could do on the ground. with the backdrop of what you just said in terms of putin has nuclear weapons. that is why the u.s. military and nato do not have troops on the ground inside ukraine. the ukrainians are very good
is new is the u.s. president. it s been reported that the previous president the one accused of being a russian asset told putin to his face, if he invaded ukraine he destroyed moscow. the current president like awoke george soros given a green light to crime, convey nothing but weakness vladimir putin on day one fastening putin s hand by attacking her own industry lifting trump sanctions on putin s nord stream pipeline. cutting our military, then of course the big one biden s catastrophic surrender for the taliban exit from afghanistan. all of it sending a message to putin, now is your chance and boy did he take it. the biden regime talked in the silly about sanctions to stop at ovation to ukraine. at the same time they were issuing briefings that definitely would ve happened proving that the threats were empty. after the invasion they said the
unleashed anything because he knows the ukrainians are using up their resources. they re going to fold before too long. to assist where things stand militarily don, the frequent guest on the show sadly because there s so many things going on that require your expertise. we wish it wasn t the case but here we are again. where do you think things stand momentarily? i think putin is in trouble militarily. we heard reports that russians have dropped their weapons in refusing to fight. we heard there has been some command-and-control issues. this is not moved as quickly as he wanted to move. he only committed a small portion of his force at the beginning, perhaps he thought that was enough. i think the credit goes to the ukrainian military freestanding hard and strong in the resistance that we see. most importantly i think it s a leadership, the strong
masking a far larger armored force and get. an aerial of ukraine cities that we ve yet seen. i m hugely impressed by the ukrainian president vladimir zelensky s courage. i never really anticipated that he would rise to the occasion in this way. i m deeply moved by the heroes of the young ukrainians, the soldiers and the volunteers who are risking their lives to defend their country. every american should relate to what they re doing because they re fighting for freedom and their fighting for democracy in their risking their lives for an ideal. it is deeply moving but let s not kid ourselves. there likely to be overwhelmed if russia deploys the kind of brute force that we see in the russians deploy, for example in syria after 2015. if you go back even further, they are capable of destroying cities and killing civilians in very large numbers. the key point putin is in a
leadership that is rallying ukrainians. it is a resistant is the fact that we have not gone all in on this already. diplomatically, militarily, and economically. this is not a time for pause read we need to get in there and help them on the ground. we have columns of his troops lined up ready to be interdicted. we need to give that help to the ukrainians but we are sitting back and were not doing anything and were saying everything is on the table. putin is a global threat. he is an enemy to the world and that s what we have to start telling people who he is. we cannot take pressure off china either. we have to go after china, they are in it and we don t want them going into taiwan. this is huge, we ve got to come together. we had to lead the world in supporting president zelensky