and major spencer, i want to bring you in here. i want you to get into more detail. in the case of iraq, by the time the united states tried to get into fallujah, the people there had had time to plan what they were going to do, to plan how they would repel. they understood what our forces were capable of and willing to do and they had time to plan a response. in this case, we were much better prepared, far superior to russia and it was 46 days of hell. what this theory would these russian forces looking at if they do enter the capital? to be honest, joy, it would be night and day to what we experienced in fallujah and i experience in baghdad. they will face a nightmare on every street. just to be clear, the world s best military, we penetrated fallujah on night one we sat in the middle of it. russia will hit a concrete wall
rights to defend the interest of the people in my hometown. and tonight, the city of kyiv announced since the beginning of the war, 222 people have died there including four children. meanwhile in odesa, russian warships on the black sea are visible from the coast. 80 years ago during the war against the actual nazis, the city part of the soviet union could see german warships approaching. they prepare for the german s arrival fortifying the city and lining it with sandbags and today doing the exact same thing but it s their neighbor attacking this time. yeah, we re quite safe because odesa has a brave history. here it was during the war there was a civil counter force, not military but civilian citizens ofodesa so we re not afraid.
about body which no one can get away or bury and dogs are eating them. it s terrible. people most of the time must stay in the ceiling because of bombing from the planes and because of the non-stop shelling. putin destroyed mariupol today. putin terrorist troops seem to be saying to all the world, look, this will happen to everybody that doesn t submit to us. so as we can see putin s russia only like anyone aggressive. they only understand the one rules, if we don t get him, he goes further. and it s not about only ukraine. he goes for the europe, not any chances he stops.
i was there and seen 60% of the city was destroyed and there were so many civilian casualties at that time. kyiv is an extremely beautiful city. it s got an amazing opera house and amazing central square and all these beautiful churches around the city. definitely, look, people are preparing for this on every street here you re seeing a fort check points, sandbags, trucks and metros and subway trains blocking pathways for potential russian entry. at many of these places you re seeing anti tank guns, anti tank rockets and yes, they have extremely sophisticated weapons like missiles and anti tank missiles so yes, they re extremely prepared and also, the people about one of third of the population have already fled the
the united states government is already assessed that they are our biggest threat, slash competitor, and in a sense, would russia benefit from the end of russia s top tier status? there used to be a moment in u.s. diplomacy, especially post-world war ii, and they were building up their alliances. around the clinton administration, fast forward through obama, you start hearing about a reset, or a pivot, in asia. whether or not that is successful, is another debate. there was a recognition that china is looming large on the world stage. they are the ones who have built straight with southeast asia, and there is the constant threat of their military in the south china sea. if they can play both sides right, if they can pull away from russia just enough to keep the united states happy, you have a hermetically sealed, soviet era type russia, which never had the economic power china did.