they didn t believe there was going to be long lasting even after new strands of the virus coming. don, i don t think there was ever a time when the administration s projections differed from the overwhelming number of forecasters and central banks and economists all over the world. i really don t know anyone who projected delta, then omicron then really almost unthinkable russian aggression to royal gas prices. what you do in an administration when you re governing is you adjust to the circumstances and they ve what we ve done. i think it is unfair to look back to a period before omicron, before delta and putin s unthinkable invasion and say why didn t you have a crystal ball? i think the president was always focused with more stable growth. i don t think people are saying that. i understand the war part. but we were in the middle of a global pandemic when it
for the virus, new strains coming. don, i don t ever think there was a time when the administration s projections differed from the overwhelming number of forecasters and central banks and economists all over the world, i do not know anyone, i really don t know anyone who projected delta, that omicron, then almost unthinkable russian aggression for gas prices. so you do in an administration when you are governing, is that you adjust to the circumstances and that is what we have done and so i think it is unfair to look back to a period before omicron, before delta, before putin s unthinkable invasion and say, why didn t you have a crystal ball, i think that the president was always focused. with all the, respect i don t think people are saying that i. understand the war part, but we were in the middle of a global pandemic, when it happened and pandemics are not predictable.
facilities are non-functional. this is indeed in putin s war part of the approach which is an attack on health facilities and civilians. general millie, chairman of the joint chiefs and others are now speaking of this war, not in weeks or months but years. and i just wonder, is the u.s. and other groups responding to the health care needs now, do they have the resources, the ability to stick it out for that long? well, there s a couple of things to understand. i think there s different zones now. we have the western areas where you have the least attacks and you have some degree of, you have people returning to homes, getting to work and health care facilities are up and running in the long way towards the quarter and then the areas newly liberated and lots of damage and rebuilding the recovery. and then you have the places