him from ukraine. putin will go as far in ukraine as he wants to. if he wants to take the country, ukrainians can t stop him militarily, if he happened to take ukraine and topple the government, he ll have one incredible insurgency that will make him remember afghanistan and how russians left there like we did without being able to control the country. right now he knows he can take the country, if he wants the breakaway provinces, he can keep those. this may be a bargaining chip. carley: tweet from mayorkis on the cyber warfare front. he says, we have no information to predict cyber threat against u.s. homeland issue but it is our responsibility to be prepared and that is what we do at dhs. hashtag, shields up.
on petro, worldwide with donations from ukrainians and supporters of ukraine from abroad. we are super prepared. day before ukrainian government issued brochure, named how to deal in time of crisis and war, which is explaining online, in telegram check boards, how to deal and be prepared and what to do under all the circumstances. we are not fighting n ly, we ar them on information ground. to pararkphrase, we will fight them in the land and on the air and on twitter because it is 2022. carley: pretty famous british politician one winston churchilwell, they didn t have twitter back then, if they did, it would a ply. everybody fighting, we have seen
bombings in kyiv, the taking over of the other strategic infrastructure, indirect missile fire coming into place now and it is just a matter of overwhelming force from russia coming in. i think the best plan for the ukrainians is to put up some resistance, but to really focus on making his stay in ukraine as difficult as possible and making him pay a severe price. that is where president biden needs to be focusing right now. carley: yeah, you know, i wonder if you saw this video, it got attention in recent days. it is russian lawmaker making a speech, the speak took place on december 27, of last year. he laid out exactly what was going to happen. he said on february 22, two days ago, he said, you will feel our new policy, this will be the
todd: we heard steve harrigan s report saying up until 48 hours ago, people of kyiv were not prepared for this, they had a sense this was going to pass and now that is turning out to not be true s. there a fear that could be the same in lviv? a sense of we should be good here, to your point, we haven t heard air-raid siren in 50 years, maybe a sense of complacency taking hold there? todd, very similar story there. three weeks in this country, pretty much all ukrainians have shrugged when you talk about are the russians going to come. they thought it was talk, politics, financial, they thought it was putin squeezing this country and cutting off the ports and the economy and that is how it would go, maybe fighting in the east. you saw putin claiming two separatist region, they thought that is where the action was.
warnings, very important this morning. todd: putin aggression creating ripple effect felt in markets worldwide. dow plunging and stock exchange is markets drop, crude oil surging to $100 per barrel for the first time since 2014. carley: lawmakers strongly condemning putin overnight. todd: brooke singman joins us live with the details 6789 brooke. brooke: that is right, lawmakers in the nation s capitol condemning the attack on ukraine and calling for range of swift, severe and crippling sanctions. congressman dan dan crenshaw, i hope president putin suffers immense losses this is barbaric, praying ukrainians fight like hell, may the people be with ukraine.