ammunition and artillery that would go again to russia in this fight against ukraine, coming from china. we heard a little bit more from the u.n. ambassador to the united states, thomas-greenfield earlier this morning, on the sunday show as well. she was very clear that when the chinese do decide to go in that direction, she said there would be severe consequences. and that is something that she indicated, that secretary blinken made very clear in his meeting last night in munich. monica alba flores, thank, you also, secretary blinken made an official visit to southeastern turkey today, to tour the earthquake damage, and discuss how the u.s. can further aid the country. blinken did announce an additional $100 million and help for both turkey and syria, on top of the $85 million just announced last week. the death toll there now announcing topping 44,000 from the devastating earthquake, more than two weeks ago. blinken is scheduled to hold further bilateral talks on monday. let s ta
country. for him, it s to wait us out. he is convinced ukrainian will and western support will break before his does. and thus, there is still a point in this really ridiculous pointless war that he s fighting. it seems as though from what we are hearing, the west has committed to continue to provide aid to ukraine on a unified front. they see what he s putting out there. it s also interesting the way in which he continues to justify this war. we played some of which he said 20 days ago or so. he glorifies the russian victory of stalingrad as the financial times reports, he s become somewhat obsessed with military history. saying, putin has tried to convince his own populace with apparent success that his actions are not only essential but justified historically.
fighting us in ukraine again, as if he did not invade ukraine and require armaments to be sent to ukraine. he s built this information net within which his decisions are being made within which he is presenting his war to his own people. he s quite comfortable. it s been built over a number of years, and a quite detailed fashion. what do you make of this idea that putin is losing his grip on his inner circle, his grip of power on this inner circle? we learned of just this week a senior military official fell to her death in moscow. earlier this year, we know, of course, a complete overhaul of his military leadership as well. what do you make of that? how much strain does that put on the russian president? there s a couple different things happening. yes, certainly, if you are a senior russian official right now, just don t go off the first floor or near any windows is a pretty good rule. there is been a lot of micro analysis of who s, up who s
for years now on the air, a combatants generally don t wear uniform. you re talking about rebel groups, fighting against other rebel groups, for a variety of different reasons. here you have a militarized population. where the women and children were either sent to shelters or sent out of the country. the men were called to national service, in a state of emergency, martial law being in effect here, since the beginning of the conflict, and are sent out to trenches along the front lines. so, now i have not covered a war just like. this is not anything close to it. richard, as you call, it this naked aggression, which is such a brilliant way to put it from russian president vladimir putin, and his war on ukraine, and then this overestimation from the international community of russian military capabilities, which many admit now, it was the will and the determination of the ukrainian people that have kept the
is this notion of surprises. what surprised me is how slow u.s. support has been to ukraine. not recognizing the long term risks. i think there s multiple points in this past year, that putin kept absorbing, blows his military kept losing territory, quickly, high margins arrived early here. planes arrived and we were given to ukraine. we can see him already kind of negotiation phase of this war. he not yet there. eventually, he s going to lose enough ground, enough personnel, that he gets. there is going to take quite some, time and he could get accustomed to this idea of losing territory. losing personnel. and feeding in this country of 140 million people. additional resources. that is what concerns, me the longer this, goes the harder it is going to be, to convince them to accept that it has lost, in order to preserve the regime, and seem skin withdraw from