approach is to take a war of grinding attrition, where it essentially bombards ukrainian forces for extended periods of time as well as ukrainian cities, and wears the ukrainians down. the ukrainians up until recently haven t been able to answer that sort of attack, but with the delivery of long-range weapons including himars from the united states, suddenly the ukrainians can deliver precision long-range firepower against key russian targets such as logistics facilities, command control, troop concentrations, that sort of thing. so it s actually shattering the russians ability to undertake a battle of attrition, and it s turn k the war into a battle of maneuver again, which then favors the ukrainians. so you know, i think that it s very interesting that essentially as a result of these weapons deliveries from the west including himars in particular
and side streets and larger troop concentrations as well. so, if indeed the russian advance is slowing down, it is certainly from our perspective appears to be that they have the capacity to really severely escalate if that is what vladimir putin chooses to do, jim. and fred, tell us about this, because we saw some disturbing images of russia sending in the so-called heavy flame throwers capable of sending thermobarric rockets, and that is something that the viewers may not know what it is. this is a ts-1 and it is using thermobarrick warheads to set the air on fire, and sucks the ox ygen out of people s lungs, and so it is a severe
don t always go as planned as people think, right? the president may not may be saying, you know, we don t want to go. he doesn t want to go to war with russia. but the possibility of being dragged into a war that, is a real possibility. no? it is absolutely, don. that s why we have to be so careful about the next steps and how everything is managed both on the military side and, of course, on the diplomatic side. and so every time you have troop concentrations anywhere, the risk is increased that there might be an unintended incident and those have unintended consequences. it is a very real risk a lot of con affliction of forces. we don t want to go to war with russia. but the events might draw us in. frankly, the pictures that we may see from ukraine the next days or weeks or whenever this happens could spur further action and could spur further military action. that is something the pentagon and its counterparts and other
lot here, john, is military warplanes overhead. jet fighters going overhead that obviously are also heading in the direction of ukraine as well. bolgorod has been an area of troop concentrations for the russiansment the u.s. said a lot of concentrations have been up here in belgorod or down towards donetsk. this is where a lot of heavy rockets, artillery and heavy armor is as well, john. again, the explosions have been going on at least four hours i should say. fred, if you immediate to protect yourself in any way, please let me know. in the meantime, i will keep on asking you questions. this is so important what you are saying. you are witnessing the aerial attack from russia. you are witnessing the ground assault, the physical incursion over the border from russia into ukraine. there was a question from sam
saying, you know, we don t want to go. he doesn t want to go to war with russia. but the possibility of being dragged into a war that, is a real possibility. no? it is absolutely, don. that s why we have to be so careful about the next steps and how everything is managed both on the military side and, of course, on the diplomatic side. and so every time you have troop concentrations anywhere, the risk is increased that there might be an unintended incident and those have unintended consequences. it is a very real risk a lot of forces. we don t want to go to war with russia. but the events may zrau us in. frankly, the nakts pictures tha may see from ukraine the next couple weeks could spur further action and could spur military action. that is something the pentagon and its counterparts and other nato countries will have to be prepared for.