Explosions, and it sunk. how big of a blow to russia? good afternoon, john. this is a major blow at many levels. one, it is their flagship. usually if any ship is highly protected, you protect the flagship. second of all, what it did is it provided command and control for that area of operations and if they were amphibious operations and the rest of the ships in the black sea, so they have the ability to conduct command and control, and air defense umbrella, so now they are exposed and you can see the results of that, the russians have had to pull the remaining ships away from the shore because they block the umbrella of protection. john: according to general keith kellogg may give the ukrainian forces outside of mykolaiv the chance to push the forces back toward crimea.
But not to fight the big fights and they are at a distinct disadvantage. dana: that s good to know. bill: if it s true that russia is moving troops to belarus with resupply wouldn t it be a good time to have fresh migs if you fight for ukraine? wouldn t they be a prime target, general? this is insane that we haven t given them the migs. 29, give or take one or two but a lot of things we should have done. we re waiting for the s-300 air defense umbrella to put over the west. we should have gone to the nato countries and bulgaria, slovakia and greece and said give it to them and we ll backfill them and we didn t do that. the list of equipment we gave to the ukrainians. 100 drones and called the switch blade drones which are good. 100? we should give them thousands.
This potential escalation? there is an air defense umbrella over both japan and south korea right now, anderson, that would prevent any kind of ballistic missiles, for the most part, getting in. that s not 100% insurance, that s sort of hike what goesli goes on during israel. they can get most of them, but every once in a while one falls through. going back to what secretary mattis and general clapper said, it is dangerous in seoul, south korea. it s a packed city of 10.5 million people with over 100,000 americans, as well. any kind of disaster of an explosion in that city would cause an unbelievable human trauma and also cause medical issues across the board and it would be very tough to fight it. so yeah, they re prepared for this kind of thing. they ve been prepared for a very long time. but that doesn t make it easier, and it s not something they want
yeah. i m not sure that president trump is ready to act. want to bring back our military panel now. general hertling if you re south korea or japan tonight, what steps are you taking in this potential escalation? there is as air defense umbrella over both japan and south korea right now, anderson that would prevent any kind of ballistic missiles for the most part getting in. that s not 100% insurance. that s sort of like what goes on. israel during the strikes that they ve received. they can get most of them but every once in awhile there s one that is going to fall through. going back to what secretary mattis and general clapper said, it is dangerous in seoul, south korea. it s a packed city of 10.5 million people with over 100,000 americans, as well. and any kind of disaster of an exploelgs o motion in that city would cause an unbelievable human trauma but it would also
Heard about and the changes in the special operation forces should be able to bring more good and discrete targets to the table for our bombers to hit. so, yes, we will need additional capacity. all right. so he is talking about what the u.s. is doing, and what is nato doing to fight isis in syria? well, nato is composed of the member country, and so nato is relying on intelligence from the united states and other nato members, and then it is standing behind the scenes, and nato is concerned about air defense umbrella throughout nato, including the the air defense umbrella over turkey, but nato does not have any independent force, and so phil breedlove is expressing the frustration of all of us in air campaign, you run out of targets. it is very hard to get the targets. when we were striking kosovo and serbia ya in 1999, the biggest problem was actually what are we