accountable if it invades and it depends on what it does. it s one thing if it s a minor incursion and we end up fighting about what to do and not do ect. maria: joining me right now is arkansas senator tom cotton who sits on the senate judiciary and armed services committee. good to see you. good morning to you. thank you, maria. good to be on with you. maria: are you expecting russia to invade ukraine? maria, vladimir putin is set to invade. this is the most dangerous time in eastern europe in years years, maybe decades to have a major war between two nationstates. i think we should take a step back and ask how we got here and why it matters. vladimir putin hasn t said that he can t tolerate ukraine joining nato and that s a pretax. there is no plan for ukraine to join nato or large numbers of american combat troops
invades and it depends on what it does. it s one thing if it s a minor incursion and we end up fighting about what to do and not do ect. maria: joining me right now is arkansas senator tom cotton who sits on the senate judiciary and armed services committee. good to see you. good morning to you. thank you, maria. good to be on with you. maria: are you expecting russia to invade ukraine? maria, vladimir putin is set to invade. this is the most dangerous time in eastern europe in years years, maybe decades to have a major war between two nationstates. i think we should take a step back and ask how we got here and why it matters. vladimir putin hasn t said that he can t tolerate ukraine joining nato and that s a pretax. there is no plan for ukraine to join nato or large numbers of american combat troops
not gonna work. and look, if i may, i would like to take this opportunity to essentially, argue with the rest that i m hearing about world war iii. i do not think that even if the u.s., or nato members from the you crane, within ukraine, will be the pretax of world war iii. i want to argue that in the 20th century, during the world war, there was a green war, the soviets against the u.s. army. there were certain elements to the vietnam war and so on and so forth. none of that will lead to world war iii. but what i think is going to happen, if ukraine falls, and, without major help from the west. we are gonna fight to the very end but this is difficult. there is also the likelihood that we will fall.