and there s hard times inevitably reduce men who are tough, men who are resourceful, men who are strong enough to survive and then they go on to re-establish order and so the cycle begins again. thank you for that. the flexing at the end. that s real. i want to be clear. you could drop that into the top of snl and people would think it was parity. you ve been writing about this. you ve been writing specifically about tucker now. that s the original for people who get their 5 hours of tucker s programming and want the original stuff. want more. that s what you re going to get. what do you see here as the threat? and then if we can open our hearts, i think your book talks about that, i say this earnestly, where does this fit into a conversation with people
that were adopted in the wake of world war ii. so this shouldn t be a surprise, what is, i think, a surprise to the russians, perhaps, because their own forces have not done a great deal of combat in cities without just blowing up the city, as they did in grozny or in aleppo or some of these other situations, is just how hard it is to root out an enemy who is determined, resourceful, capable and just not going to surrender. and, again, combat, we validated in battles such as ramadi, fallujah, parts of baghdad, baqubah, all in that one and a half year period of the surge, it is incredibly intense in terms of using soldiers to avoid just blowing up things and to root out the bad guys. and that s what they re finding. and this has become the alamo for ukraine. the defenders just fighting
stepped-up attacks on civilians in the south and new strikes on cities in the west. ukraine is bracing for what might be the bloodiest part of the war so far, a brutal offensive to take the eastern part of the country. the government has warned it could resem bble some of the wot battles since world war ii. general anderson, an ultimatum has been issued in mariupol. it has expired. what do we expect to happen there? i think the ukrainians are going to continue to fight. and i don t see them surrendering. i know that s what the russians want to play this as. i don t see it happening. they re too tough, to resourceful. they realize it would be a psychological and political victory for vladimir putin if they did surrender. urban warfare is incredibly difficult. it s going to take, i think, more time to root them out there. they ve been there for six weeks
we are in hard times. those hard times inevitably produce men who are tough, men who are resourceful, men who are strong enough to survive. the cycle begins again. tucker: there is nothing more unfortunate to the president of the united states on camera then soft chubby, fat children. that is where the jfk legacy they don t tell you about. that was a common view up until recently paired now it is completely different and the fall of testosterone levels is a big reason why. andrew mcgovern is thought about this. his obsession is how do you reverse the effects? we think it s a big deal, and so
and that is where those brutal bombing of peaceful cities like mariupol and kharkiv are happening. what s your reaction to that? and we were just you were just discussing the coming potential battle for kyiv. what s the significance of the fact that ukrainians seem to feel very confident that they have a lot of control over their air space right now? well, again, this is astonishing. if you remember in the invasion of iraq, we basically took the iraqi air force out of the picture in the first couple of hours by cratering every one of their runways so they couldn t even get off the ground. that s still obviously not happened in ukraine in part because the ukrainian air defenses have been so surprisingly resolute and, again, resourceful. and they are reportedly receiving some resupply of the kinds of air defense that they have. i m not just talking about the stinger missiles which are good up to about 10,000 or so feet, but old russian systems that are actually accurate, well above