package. but we saw in his conversations with president zelenskyy that there are still things that ukraine wants and needs for their fight agait russia that the u.s. has not yet been willing to give, namely longer range missiles and fighter jets. ukrainians saying thank you so much for all of your support, we need your continued support but we need more. they would have wanted a little bit more, i think, from biden in terms of the commitment of those more sophisticated systems for this second year of this war against russia. it seems to be a cyclical response that we keep hearing and see playing out, the united states and the west offers aid and the ukrainians say thank you and we want more. we do deliver more but they need it right now. thank you. let s bring in william cohen who served as defense secretary under president clinton. mr. secretary, good to see you
message to the kremlin that there s no way for any cease-fire or peace talks except for the accountability that will follow after that. we heard a less than inspiring speech today from russian president vladimir putin that seemed to repeat his common phrases that he has been using in the past few years in that russia is the one being on the defense here, and depressed and that the west instigated this and all that he is saying is russia is trying to liberate ukraine. i want to get your response to how he described the current ukrainian government. he called your government a western hostage and you were working in the interest of western governments, in particular the united states, as opposed to the interest of ukrainians. can you address that and respond? in ukraine for many months if not years, what has been said
its support of ukraine, in the significant speech he made one day after the surprise visit to kyiv? it was, indeed, a very inspiring speech, historic. it s a huge impetus and support for all the ukrainian defenders, and all ukrainians inside or outside ukraine. but most importantly, for the rest of the world, f our allies as well, that the united states is with ukraine, and it will stay with ukraine until the end. also, one important comment that he made is the war crimes, the acknowledgment of the war crimes that russia is committing. we heard that also from vice president kamala harris during the security conference. why this is significant is that probably it gives a very clear
point, but if the north korea s continue to fire icbm s over their territory, they might at some future time decide to go nuclear on their own. what would that pose to china or russia at this point? that certainly would upset the geopolitical calculations. i think the most dangerous point in our world history today, we need to find ways to lower the temperature and the rhetoric as far as what we are going to do and how we are going to do it. that s going to take diplomacy, and i am hoping if president biden and president xi meet, if at all possible, they would try and lower the temperature between our two countries. the gratitude from the ukrainians with this additional half billion in assistance including military hardware, they, of course, want the f-16s and fighter jets and longer