that difference inside of an urban setting. thank you very much. stay safe in your reporting. welcome back to you as the news warrants this hour. it s dark where you are now and the war is on. general jack keane is with us today. i have a question for you. just in terms of looking at the map now, what happens if and when russia territory gets bigger? what happens for putin? well putin, as we all know, this is about his personal legacy. that s why he wants to bring this land, ukraine, back under the orbit of russia. something he believes was a historic mistake to ever become an independent state. certainly he was aghast in 2014 when the very people we are talking about here, the ukrainian people, ran his
air force. we can provide aircraft to the ukrainians to fight with. we can provide aid, as we are, and there is a very, very big package now in the u.s., perhaps the ten billion dollar package being considered. so i think we have to explore all those options. you know, there s another two things that are really critical here. one is nato has said we are moving forward, and these are lines that russia cannot cross. and it is very important with a guy like vladimir putin to recognize that while we will not go into a no fly zone over ukraine, if he sets an inch and of to the baltics, at that point, we re gonna undertake the risk. the final thing that i would say is, you re right. joe biden has lived through this throughout his entire life. and one of the things that is remarkable is that, well putin s rhetoric is inflammatory and actually insane, it actually puts all of us on the planet at
back to then the ussr. i looked at the size of this former country. if you were to take an outline from 1989 and compared to the early like 1982 when they started to break up. you re literally cutting off all of the stands down here. azerbaijan, armenia into ukraine as well. over belarus, over the baltic countries. so much of this area sorry, i just want to be a little bit more accurate. all of this area now has been considered to leave the ussr. it s prudent whole thing was that was the worst day of his life. now you look at nato, not every country listed here you see the land border here with russia. over here to eastern turkey. well putin has been saying this is my problem. this is my problem. if ukraine joins nato. ask yourself this question, emily, why have all of these
center. period all destinations for what the russian military is trying to target. if you would see on the map right here, that is the location for the chernobyl nuclear power plant. just south of the border with belarus. heavy fighting reported here as well get the russian military tried to make an incursion through the chernobyl nuclear plant and ukraine military now is standing up to them. how long that lasts, we do not know. there is one report suggesting several bridges are out in that area. all of that it s happening in real time as we speak. also, night has fallen in ukraine in ukraine. thank you so much for that. as putin has pursued, a vicious, complicated campaign. what s his perspective on all of that? i will take you back to remember putin was living in east berlin when everything changed in the communist world and he left in 1989 and headed
the iranians who are about to get a windfall in sanction relief money in terms of what they are going to do. he s tearing it on privately because this contributes to the narrative, this is an example of the united states in decline, the west is weak. it s an incentive for him and his regime, depending on how this turns out, to take advantage of the united states in the west again. not in the near term. he s going to be enshrined come the fall of this year, but a year or two down the road, he is going to be incentivized if this turns out to be very favorable for putin in the long run. did you have a follow-up, martha? i m thinking about the olympics and i m thinking about president xi and president putin standing next to each other saying they don t want anyone to interfere with what they re doing about a region. if something were watching