Hearts we werent going to kill them. That was training. That kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. John mccain was tortured. What they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other Prisoner Of War Sites in North Vietnam was torture. Weve never done that kind of thing. Never condoned it. Some of our allies may have done it but we department. The bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, theyre going to stay illegal until Congress Changes it. Neil when i hear the president said as he did today in this Press Conference and that he would defer i hope i have the right wording there to his Defense Secretary, what did you make of that . Well, i make of it donald trump became famous for saying year youre fired. If he doesnt like that the
secretary of defense wont do it i know these mean well. I know jim mattis very well. He was not going to issue that kind of order and he has the authority to issue though orders. Hes not going to do it. Into if the pre
troops may be left behind. there may be suggestions that hundreds are taken as prisoners. the ministry of defense setting off a series of dominos for russia s presence in the areas, that have been declared russian territory by pvladimir putin. we saw how ferocious the ukrainian advance has been and the destruction left from the fighting there. and how much territory has been taken back. it s been unstoppable. ukraine has not bragged much about its march south toward the heart of donetsk. but every rooftop or tree line suggests they ve been too busy advancing. day-by-day, reducing how much of
certainty will be reported to putin, which is why they re afraid of talking about the failures of putin s policy. they are afraid to talk one on one about that. this is an important factor that constraints all the moves that can potentially counterhis policies. in your op-ed, you wrote that putin s days are numbered. the events since february 24th have made an end to putin s regime as we know it. of course if he truly believes his days in power are over, that raises very serious questions about what he might do in the final days or hours or what he could do. how do you see this, vladimir? and how much longer do you think he will remain in power? he still maintains strong power. he can hang on for some time. but few weeks, months down the road, many more people inside
he deliberately built a system where he banished people for bad news and he really only heard what he wanted to hear. so this is the reality that we re facing right now. so these advisers you talk about that are devastated by the consequences and know the reality, are they communicating with each other, are they do they pose a threat to putin? is there any sort of conversation or organization to any of this? or no? this is a very important to understand. because communications between government officials are intercepted by security services. so they are surveilled to a bigger extent than the opposition is. if anything, two people, three people or more will start to discuss that putin has taken the country in the wrong direction, this is to with large
officials currently in power now are currently devastated by the consequences of putin s invasion. that that s true. they want to openly, and everybody understands that that s a unique situation. for the most time ever, we are moving in a backwards direction. we had a lot of difficulties in the 70s and 80s and 90s and we are some what open to the world and the direction is very different. right now, russia is disconnected from global markets, logistics and so on. this has never happened before, and the people in power fully realized that. when i say devastated, i mean it. president biden was asked this week specifically about reports that putin is misinformed by some of his advisers. these people in the upper