kids who ve been orphaned by these attacks. can you tell us about what you re seeing and what people need? make no mistake. vladimir putin has joined the ranks of joseph stalin. i m sure he s very excited about this. i m sure it s not meant to be a negative in his eyes. keeps wreaking havoc. targeting women and children. i remember walking across the border and you see this in its women and children and older men and there s no ongoing end and there s lines coming out. the conditions. talking about kids being kidnapped. people are taking advantage of the situation. it is sickening. for we have any aid, for our government decided to take action, because they waited for weeks. you don t have that time. we did not have that luxury. special operations guys.
well as the defense secretary that the u.s. role is limited to training in ukraine, at last count, 150 in their training. do we need to ramp that up? are we doing enough on that front, if we are limited indeed to that role at this point. yeah, i think we missed an opportunity when putin put tens of thousands of troops on the border of ukraine back in the spring. i think it was 70, 80, 90,000, something along that, clearly a provocation and intimidation of ukraine, intimidation of nato, and i thought we should have reacted rather strongly to that at the time so he does not repeat that activity. and what am i talking about? yes, increase to trainers to assist the ukraine military. we have national guard there, special operations guys that have been in there. we could have doubled or tripled that kind of capability, and i ve always felt that we are underarming ukraine in terms of what the real shopping list is.
relative certitude that the russians are are going to attack kyiv the ukrainian capital a city of about 3 million people. that s like the population of chicago. so, how will the russians go about doing that? don t know, john. but what i will say is it could happen in a series of ways. it could be just a massive artillery barrage on the city and that could kill a lot of civilians, which would be horrific. and it would be a war crime. it could be a limited assault and i will give you another keyword tonight to start thinking about the russian special operations guys that come in just like our delta force. um, it could be a maneuver a small maneuver toward kyiv to continue to focus the attention on a faint in the north, while putin does more action in the donbas region. i just don t know. when when you are talking about an operation with this many troops around, you how yourself, as a commander, or president putin as the commander in chief, to have a variety of options and h
massoud, and general zia who i will be on the phone with when you and i finish. rapidly building a significant force of resistance fighters, most of them, special operations guys were delivering their own humvees and aircraft next-door and in the northern area, and what they are looking for is everybody pay attention to this. humanitarian assistance. humanitarian assistance in the form of food, fuel and medical supplies. they are asking desperately for his covid vaccine or at least some prophylaxis of some kind to help those who are testing positive. we did this before, operation provide comfort in the 1990s for the kurds. i know a little bit about the resistance organization but the bottom line is we ought to be helping right now with humanitarian help and i hope we will have some of that set up in the next 24 to 48 hours.
will be on the phone with again when you and i finish. rapidly building a significant force of resistance fighters, most of them, special operations guys delivering their own humvees and aircraft next-door and in the northern area, and humanitarian assistance. humanitarian assistance in the form of food, fuel and medical supplies. they are asking desperately for covid vaccine or at least some prophylaxis of some kind to help those who are testing positive. we did this before, operation comfort in the 1990s for the kurds. i know a little bit about the resistance organization but the bottom line is we ought to be helping right now with humanitarian help and i hope we will have some of that set up in the next 24 to 48 hours.