ground forces before going in. the russians clearly don t have that capability, and now they re suffering losses. they re prepared to take losses. they ve lost aircraft. they ve lost armored personnel carriers. now they re moving into cities and will sustain even heavier casualties. but the geopolitical ramifications of this are the ones most interesting and the ones that will haunt vladimir putin to the end of his life. sweden and finland will join the nato the nato council and they ll participate in that discussion and potentially start to seriously consider participation in nato. germany has provided early signal ls of the fact that it s going to wake up from its deep slumber and start to rearm. it has a massive economic potential that will change the european security landscape. these are the things that are going to haunt vladimir putin in addition to significant russian casualties in addition to the
better part of the last eight decades have been asleep to some degree. and that is a moment that is jostling the west, europe in particular, out of perhaps that slumber and recognizing kind of the essential element that those bring to the table and underscoring that the unity that you ve seen from nato, from the eu, obviously the u.s. alliance that they put together with the sanctions that they applied is so critical right now given what we re seeing over the course of the last four, five, six, seven years, and that that even from a bigger picture perspective is incredibly important going forward, and something that i think the president has long thought was lacking based on in particular his predecessor, but also kind of the way the trajectory of the world has been going over the course of the last several years. just emphasizing that point. this is why we should care about upholding democratic values. and also, he talked about the pandemic and how we re two years into this. he is c
feels on the back foot, what could he do next? it feels on the back foot, what could he do next? feels on the back foot, what could he do next? , , ., ., , he do next? it seems as if poland is takin: the he do next? it seems as if poland is taking the pressure he do next? it seems as if poland is taking the pressure because - he do next? it seems as if poland is taking the pressure because we ve l taking the pressure because we ve seen so many images of ukrainians and other nationalities heading to the border to escape the violence, but from listening this evening, poland is also going to be the logistical hub for a lot of the weaponry and fuel and possibly the humanitarian aid as well. absolutely. poland has been kind of at the forefront and in fact the polish prime minister has been saying for months to brussels, but also to the west at large and also in an interview with me just before the winter holidays, he said, you have to wake up in the west, he said. vladimir putin wants to
in these dark cloud look at president zelensky. i felt that leaders are not born. they are made. they are made in a crisis. we are seeing president zelensky emerge as a 21st century leader facing vladimir putin. he mobilized the international crisis. now nato is joining ukraine and switzerland gave up its neutrality. all because of president s zelensky s appeal to the cause of fighting for democracy and freedom and liberty. everything enshrined in the constitution and the bill of rights. ukraine citizens areifying with everything they ve got. are fighting. he jolted the democracies which were in a slumber for a little
forget about the migs. nato has to agree we are sending them. remember that with they are on the belarusian border, ukrainian border. we didn t want to go because none of nato wanted to go. we will not unilaterally send migs at this point. biden is on pressure on the migs and am not so sure we won t send jets because now, democrats want to send weapons. once i think once it gets warmer in italy and germany might not need as much power, like not need as much heat and gas coming through these russian pipelines, they might get a little tougher. greg: that is a really good point, even though that is a strength point. [laughter] jesse: it is cold there right now. geraldo: germany is waking from a decade-long slumber. greg: we are also leaking from decade long war. geraldo: also true and we