analysis is russia military is not winning this war to be blunt. they under estimated the va lose eracity of the resistance so they re attempting to demoralize at this point ukrain civilians and people trying to flee and flatten the country if they can t get ukraine to surrender. is that the sense you have? this is not a precision military exercise, it s just an attempt to level as much of ukraine as they can and demoralize the people? well, that s their plan because on the ground they don t have the morality to advance. i mean, the ukrainians are putting up a fight they didn t expect. they expected they would be welcomed with butter and salt like crimea. ukraine is a different country. for the past eight years, which we are in a war with russia, the people understand that russia
at the time, the ad symbolized russia s embrace of capitalism and had finally joined the global economy. fast forward to today and russia is quickly backsliding thanks to vladimir putin. his invasion of ukraine prompted a mass exit of businesses from russia incluing visa, master card and american express seizing card holder transactions in that country as well as netflix, which suspended services. they ve joined a growing list of companies that have effectively pulled out isolating russia from the world economy and putin is turning back the clock on the information age with crackdowns on journalism and social media and blacked access to facebook and the bbc among others and signed a law banning so-called fake news including a ban on calling the invasion of ukraine what it is an invasion or war which is punishable by 15 years in prison and arresting more
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states intervening militarily in yemen in a bid to fight iran back to t rebels. it triggered one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. due to widespread hunger, disease and attacks on civilians. 4 million you have many s have been forced to flee their homes. we re seeing ukraine is absolutely the worst humanitarian crisis that europe has seen in decades, but we haven t witnessed the same type of solidarity for the enmities as we do for the ukrainians. we don t see global campaigns, corporations like airbnb and netflix taking a stand. it s not say we shouldn t care this much for ukraine. far from it. the point is, we should almost carrot also care as much for asia, africa and middle east too. the coverage shows radical disparity and how human ukrainians look and feel to western media compared to the brown juror and black or counterparts. with some reporters using very telling comparisons in their analyses of the war.
joining me is the former director for european affairs at the national security counsel and senior advisor after vote vets and the author of here right matters and intelligence analyst and author of the upcoming book they want to kill americans. thank you for being here. lieutenant colonel vindman, you said you believe that short of doing a no fly zone, if that s not tenable, there are ways that we could make a something like it possible. this is what you wrote, establishing a no fly zone may be too provocative but if they don t strange that intervention, they ought to supply ukraine with the tools that would allow ukraine to strike russian warehouses or staging areas holding aircraft ballistic air missiles. if the west and poland are saying we re not even going to supply you the fighter jets, how would the west then help? well, there is an idea for