hold this emergency meeting. tomorrow we know they re going to announce new sanctions. we know they ll announce new hume an teargen and military aid. how far will they go? based on reporting overnight, we anticipate the president may announce that there will be a permanent increase to u.s. troop levels innato countries. he wants the polish migs and you have the threat of the use of chemical weapons and the president still won t call that a red line. baltic leaders say it needs to be a red line. there needs to be a plan in place in case that hans. we saw what happened when president obama did not enforce the red line he had taken in syria when of course russia helped president assad use chemicals against his own people. and there s been i i think a perceived hesitation to draw red lines. this could be a coming together
those polish migs to be moved across to ukraine. these are all things that could have been done and should have been done. but, you know, they have sent a terrific amount to the ukrainians. according to a us official quoted on cnn television last week, nato and the us have sent a total of 17,000 anti tank weapons and 2,000 stinger missiles so far to the ukrainians. i mean, they are pulling their weight. no doubt about it. as i say, this is a steep learning curve. each day, each week, we are sending more and more weapon systems, but we need to be horizon scanning and say, what do they require? there s been a 40 mile tank column sitting outside kyiv for how long? why haven t we been able to take that out? that requires a different sort of weapon system, longer range than the anti tank weapons that we ve actually sent in. we ve been speaking about the potential for a chemical warfare strike. what have we been doing to provide gas masks, protective equipment and so forth to the ukrainian
that and supply the ukrainian air force with more of those polish migs will eventually happen. talks are under way trying to do it. jon: let s hope it happens sooner than later. jonathan hund in ukraine. christian whiten and retired air force brigadier general duane holt. a form representative to nato. the fact that nato is not going to enforce this no-fly zone that president zelensky wanted, i guess nobody is surprised by that. nobody wants to see this war spreading beyonded the borders of beyond the borders of ukraine.
be able to crush russian power if we did enforce a no fly zone and put all of nato s assets towards it would be a real fight even. well, obviously anything we would say would be speculative in nature because we we we don t really know. here s here s why i would be very optimistic about nato s fortunes in enforcing a no fly zone. the ukrainian air force as minimally equipped as it is, has absolutely slaughtered the russian air force and kept it largely out of its skies through intimidation and by shooting down multitudes of airplanes. if you add it in the best the best from nato into a no fly zone environment, russia air is simply stopped. it just doesn t exist. brigadier general, i m intrigued by this whole question. the polish migs, the polish government is willing to
nawauh. always a pleasure to see you. the u.s. is not supporting a no-fly zone. they say they don t want to be the intermediary between those polish migs and ukraine. what can we expect from these nato summits? jose, it s always good to be with you. man, what a stark split screen difference we see with those crowds, supporting putin on the ground there in russia, and the brutal scenes we have seen unfolding in ukraine, getting worse week by week. look, the timing of the president s visit here to brussels really couldn t be more crucial, and probably couldn t come fast enough, according to the folks on the ground in ukraine. we know those meetings he s going to have with nato member partners and nato member nations is going to focus largely on what an additional military response could be. we know the goal has been to give the ukrainians everything they need to continue to be effective defensively, and so far, white house officials tell