very early days, that the ukrainians might feel confident right now because we are still only on day five, but that russia has a lot more power that it can send into this fight. about a third of all of the russian troops that they had positioned around ukrainian are still in a position to be put into battle. they haven t yet been sent to the front lines, they haven t been sent into this country. there is that massive convoy outside of kyiv that could be heading this way if it receives the order to, and there is this psychological factor. how is vladimir putin going to react? u.s. officials are worried that since he has experienced early setbacks that he could escalate by using heavier munitions, that he could fire artillery or unguided kinds of weapons against this city or other cities and increase the level of assault and make it a much more punishing assault against the
this is not going to be over in days or weeks. this is going to take years to unfold with all the consequences and the repercussions we re going to see in the world order. it does seem and i wonder what you think of this, even as americans support economic sanctions, most of them are not supportive of there being military intervention, and at least in that explicit sense, that s not something that the u.s. is proposing. but i wonder, you know, what he can sell on that front for doing more? well, the united states and its partners are doing a lot. and military means something more than bombs and missiles. the satellite information, that means the ukrainians can see in the dark. they know everything. even if they can t always act, they know everything that is going on in their country. the ability to interfere, we hope, with russian satellites so that russians do not see. the power of the social media war that is mobilizing world opinion and is going to have an echo effect back in
and supported the ukrainians and what we have been doing now is standing by. there is more to do, we could do it and we should be doing it. steve: let s just be clear what you mean. limited time it can be an exhausting answer. you re not talking about american troops, everyone agreed about that. how can we help specifically. we have indirect fires, and direct capabilities, so does nato and all kinds of things that we could be helping with without having to put ground troops in their. that is what he s asking for. we have to get more stuff in there and we have to get more combat help in their. we can do that. i know we can do that. it s been done before. what is combat help just so everyone is clear.
it is 1975. he doesn t understand how the landscape has changed so radically. speak to the importance of getting information out the way you have. not only americans, but people across the world were electrified by president zelenskyy when he gave that speech with his cabinet ministers in the streets of kyiv the first night, saying, we re still here and we re not leaving. how important is it, what you are doing getting the information out not only to fellow ukrainians but also allies across the world? yeah, this is really extremely important. i believe that well, the actual matrix the minister of digital transformation has the fight, the fight from russia side. they spread fake news, they
the way around? we keep hearing about the europeans and nato nations sending in weapons and arms to help the ukrainians, but how do you get them into kyiv if it s surrounded by russian troops. there are covert means to get some of that equipment into europe, john, excuse me into ukraine. what i would be most concerned with truthfully is not so much the expansion of the red areas we have been watching for such a long time because that s where russian troops are. what i would be most concerned with is the long-range systems. what i m talking about is the missiles, the artillery that can shoot from 17 miles away, the cruise missiles which we saw just hit the middle of kharkiv that can shoot from hundreds of miles away. those are the things we re going to see a lot of next because the ground forces of the russian army are not moving very well. they are bogged down, in my humble opinion. so we re going to have to watch at what mr. putin and his army does next. is he going to use a lot of