joining me to talk about potential next steps is democratic congressman and chief deputy whip schakowsky. thank you for joining us on this sunday afternoon and taking the time. we appreciate it. i want to put up a list of the asks from the ukrainian president. when it comes to more aid for ukraine. no-fly zone, which we will known. surface to air missile systems. more severe sanctions, closing u.s. ports to russia and also military aircrafts. what is feasible here in this list? so i m going to answer your question, but i want to say thank you first for the journalists that are on the ground in ukraine and in the surrounding countries. you know, i know they are sacrificing, potentially sacrificing their lives or at least risking their lives. they must be exhausted, and the coverage is just so personal
people were attacked from air, our country experienced the same every day. we are asking for air flight, for an answer to this terror from the whole world. is this a lot to ask for, to create a no-fly zone to save people? zelenskyy did present lawmakers and the white house to provide ukraine with surface-to-air missile systems and fighter jets to combat the russian aggression. aircraft that can help ukraine help europe. and you know, that exist and you have them but they are on earth, not the ukrainian sky. president zelenskyy also playing this heartbreaking video. the terror his people are
maybe perhaps kyiv, something where you could stay a distance from the russian borders and those ground attack radars, still an escalation, not likely to happen now, but ways to shave it back. looks like it s not going to happen, and we have hit analysts, if you really want to have a no-fly zone you have to take out all the ground-based surface to air missile systems and that means attacking the russians anyway, they don t want to do. a couple of other things zelenskyy asked for, the mig-29, poland has offered to send them to the air base and then the u.s. would send them on, and longer range than the man pad, the stinger missiles. so he s not going to get the migs. should he get the migs? absolutely. he s asked for them, they have pilots trained for them, they would put them to good use. i don t see a reason why we would say yes to stinger missiles and no to migs. what about the idea that the
but everything else, there s lots of weapon systems, lots of weapon systems, surface-to-air missile systems, some of them post-soviet systems, by the way, that when i talked to president zelenskyy he is pretty crystal clear about what the menu is. rather than talking about it and deliberating and say, well, the pols can do it if they want, i think it is a very weak move. we are the nato alliance should be moving together offensively in my view, that is proactively and quietly. well, and one other thing is while we re on syria, you are so right. i think the frustrating thing is we are always on the defensive against putin. he is always a disrupter. we are always playing catch-up. i wish joe biden, i wish we would get the message to him. you know, donald trump retreated from syria. we had 2,500 troops there that were doing an extraordinary job protecting people. you know what? we re seeing what you are doing
refuses to provide military aid, does not allow the russian companies to use china s financial systems to get around some of these western sanctions, then i think that it will be really impactful on russia because russia in many ways was looking to china to soften the blow of these sanctions. selling its oil and natural gas to china, selling some of its agricultural output to china, using china s financial system in order to get payments into russia for products and services it delivers to entities and companies around the world. and so if china refuses to participate and refuses to really help russia in a significant way, then that is increasing the stranglehold and the severity and impact of western sanctions on russia. i think that you will see china really trying to position itself as a dloglobal player, still