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
may not sound very serious. but if russia gets into the kind of protracted fight against the insurgency that the progress was talking about, if russia gets into a battle with 150,000 troops against 45 million ukrainians the real issue is going to be who s motivated? who is mobilizing? who has moment them with them? in that case, winning the social media war, winning the communications war, that is going to really make a big difference. putin is terrible at. that because he lives in a closed society. and he doesn t allow dissent. zelenskyy is great of a. that is what he s trying to. do so, i think that putin picked the wrong country. and he s picked the wrong president to pick on. the white house press secretary, said this sunday, that the president is certainly going to bring up what he is
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russia s defence ministry says forces will stop firing this morning to allow humanitarian corridors and the evacuation of civilians out of the evacuation of civilians out of the southern ukrainian cities of maria paul. it has not yet been confirmed by ukrainian authorities. more and more refugees are fleeing the country as fighting intensifies 1.2 million people have now left. ukraine s president criticises the west for ruling out a no fly zone over his country while russian attacks continue. the social media war: russia has banned facebook, and there are reports it s also blocked access to twitter and youtube. a state funeral is planned in australia for cricket s greatest showman, shane warne, after the death of one of the most famous and successful players, in the history of the game. and in weather, some southern and eastern parts of england may be grey and damp today but plenty of sunshine developing the most this weekend, though it will be chilli by
pro-russia propaganda actors. joining us now is the wall street journal, let s start with social media, how crucial is it right now in terms of showing what s going on inside ukraine? i think it is extremely important and even if you don t think it is important you are still going to be bombarded by this content. tiktok as you mentioned in your introduction has been huge for letting other generations, the younger generation really get a glimpse into this war and i have been saying this is not the first connected war. it is not the first social media war, it is the first tiktok war as new yorkers said. there is a big difference in the way tiktok is designed that allows people to get closer to this content. one, the people in ukraine are the citizens have this tool ta makes it so easy, four steps to get your video up on tiktok. on the opposite side those who are consuming it, it is seconds,