countries. that s what you heard president biden trying to explain. the pentagon is also extremely concerned about certain weapon systems falling in to the hands of the russians and chechen terrorists. that matters what kinds of weapons to send. in terms of those polish migs, they re not stopping poland from providing the migs. they just don t want to take possession of them in germany and transfer them to ukraine themselves. they don t think that that is the weapons systems that the ukrainians need. that senior defense official says ukrainian has 56 working fighter jets that are flying between five to ten sortees a day inside ukraine. the bottom line, for the most part, the war is not in the air and russian war planes are having a hard time flying over
as profits that haven t been made in reality. one thing biden apparentlyg didn t budget forbi was enough military aid to ukraine and now the pentagon says it will have to request additional money in the future. here with reaction , texasex senator ted cruz. senator , let s firstasas get yr take on ukraine. ai i think you and i are old reagan doctrine guys. no american boots on the ground provide the weaponryno like reagan provided the mujahideen the contra rebels let them fight w their own fight and the trump doctrine gave them the force that is needed to wine the war. yeah, that s exactly right. ought to be providingvi the weapons for the ukrainians to defend themselves. we ought to be providingdig the polish migs. we ought to be providing as three hundreds and javelins ,stingers and the biden administration is slow walking all of that and then number two. ,we ought to be going aftere putin s revenue and that meansn oil and gas. that means american r energy production. and biden is so
i mean it s certainly been part of american policy toward hostile countries before. you know, don, when i heard the president say that i immediately thought back to barack obama s statement about syrian president bashar al assad. 2010, 2011, something like that. president obama said a man like that doesn t deserve to be president. people thought, well, he s going to do something about this, but we didn t. it s what we need to do is not talk about regime change in russia. we need to give dwru crane the tools it needs to finish the fight against the russians on the ground in ukraine. that s the best antidote for vladimir putin s evil nature and the best protection for nato and the united states. we re holding back on that for some reason. those polish migs and other aircraft that could be brought in, most of us don t see the
calling on the president for weapons. the reality is, the sanctions running from all of february, march, beginning of april, yes, they re having an effect on the russian economy but that graphic there says it all. of course, china is not going to the only potential is italy and germany. not really, we re still in the winter season there, and they need that fuel. that is why there is a bipartisan support, and urging for the administration to do more on the weapons front. we ll see what more sanctions. the president is planning president biden, tomorrow and thursday, we ll see if that has an effect. and the nato foreign ministers gather tomorrow. is there any indication they re willing to do more? whether it s the polish migs, whether it s accelerating s-300s or the no-fly zone or the humanitarian corridor? i think there s a willingness to do more in the categories in which they ve been doing more but there is the skittishness of what could be escalatory to
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