in their life. our our childrenays in america this is you and i can argue allu day and i look at you and i think you believe in thisie country in your way. i believe in mine and i think it s at risk because a great dream of it, the aspiration of it with all its diversity because ukrainians put all their unity, they got a lot of diverse thought over there toto i think we re really ato. risk r we let the greatest, most historic in our lifetime fight for democracy against a a gigantic superpower. i mean military intimidation amazingly well and what they ve had outmanned . ou outgunned. yeah. sotg that s what i felt from my time there going back to the trip, which i was going principally with the documentary team but principallyocum driven by the we with corps because we have two hundred staff in and out of ukraine, poland, romania
and which i will make a call for help. we need we ve got incredible both refugee ukrainians workingi with us in that two hundred we ve got ukrainian citizens of poland and romania and othersf but half of them half half of our staff there are now hired s up. just t since this time ukrainias what so that trip was targeted on how to get supplies into and by the way, just for your audience, there s been there s been a little shift here in the humanitarian world, which isn that up to level for this body armor that is approved for humanitarian organizations and i will say countries that poland has been the mostie impressive country of all to me in this they ve been the bravest and they ve also absorbede the most population.
when we when we came out ofut where we met with him, there bos a blackout in the city because of concerns aboututut rockets. we were encouraged not to use our automobile to drive back because the lights would draw rocket fire . we walked and because of the experience of what of about ts fight was and seeing it in the faces of leadership and not the only thing we talked about, the only thing we felt was the deepest sense of heartbreak. first for the ukrainians who were going to fight, be maimed, be injured. the war of attrition. but very quickly i thought this one this one my children are going to feel if this thingt is not one , they re going to feel it in tangible ways
nuclear weapons can c remain intimidated to use them. and we reha seeing that now with our own country..ns and i fear what that legacy is going to be. we don t want no one wants to see a nuclear i don t want to see one nobody at the same time if only one bully is going to be able to use those weapons as a threat, we got to rethink what we re doing. see, i think the west made r a mistake in this buildupet that putin as he brought in tenu thousand troops and twentynd thousand and we get up to one hundred thousand and it became very clear, transparent and obvious that he was going to go in and all the military equipmentng with it. ht at that point i thought nato countries and western european countries and the us should have anticipatedri what was pretty obvious and then arming the ukrainians a for that moment and i don t thinkn they were prepared either. am i wrongd? well, look, this could happen tomorrow also we can get at 15 , 16 and they can fly those with three weeks of training. th
. he is the face of something that you see in all ukrainians we saw u and talked to whether they were in uniform out of uniform schoolteacher s evenun children, this extraordinary courage that s come up and it was in his eyes and it is clear to me t that the ukrainians will win this . the question is at what cost did they have in those early hours? i know the trump gave them javelins. i know that they had some defenses. back to thehe h budapest agreement, they wereey at the time the third largest nuclear power in the world and they they made an agreement that they give those weapons to the to russia to be destroyed in exchange for protection from russia, great britain and the us lesson to be learned here. l don t give up your nuclear weapons if you have them because you can t believe people like vladimir putin or even countries that have