just going to walk in here and jump into this city with airborne forces or commandos, they re talking essentially a war that will go for years and turn into an insurgency. they ll never hold it. and ann, we have you on the phone now. let s talk about that. because it seems sort of almost like nationally suicidal for vladamir putin to think that he can pull off with ukraine what the old ussr couldn t do in afghanistan. it doesn t seem logical. but you write in your piece, you know, this idea that you have this cleptocrat in vladamir putin. if ukraine became what it wants to be, a normal, modern, prosperous european nation, it would put the lie that he s running at home, it could expos him for the crook that he really is. so what is the sort of likelihood that he takes the
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cleptocrat and needs to step down from power. all of these things will be hammered by the president to a supportive crowd. also, senator rubio went to columbia congressman diaz over the weekend. they were there at the border with venezuela and one of these bridges where venezuelans have been carrying all they can on their back and leaving the country. three million people have left venezuela in the last couple years. rubio and diaz were there with some humanitarian aid shipments, which they say are having difficulty getting into venezuela because venezuelan maduro regime and military are so far not letting it in. charles? phil, thank you very much. so with maduro digging in, are we at the tipping point? former state department official, christian whiteman joins us now.
so you know, there s a question if u.s. sanctions and u.s. pressures will hurd a freedom movement. if you talk about people, their cases go back to solidarity in poland, they always want outside attention. even if they don t love the united states, although many do, if they don t, they want us to do what we re doing, which is put the spotlight on the dictator. you mentioned the police and the military. i remember when chavez was in charge. he would raise the pay of the military. perhaps seeing one day where this moment would come where paying off the military and the police to a degree would be necessary. of course, maduro picked up on that practice. there s been many times when he s elevated their pay substantially where they lived very well. they have not lost 24 pounds in the last year. where is the breaking point for the military and the police? how do we negotiate that? it is part a signal that the
that being venezuela. the problems down there are immense. inflation going to reach 10 million percent this year. food is scarce to get. in fact, it s so hard to get food and supplies of food just for the people of venezuela to eat and feed their families. the average venezuelan has lost 24 pounds 6 when nicholas maduro took office. the two men targeted by president trump and he should be walking out to the stage here any minute now will be president nicholas maduro as well as opposition leader juan guaido. guaido is whom john bolton, the national security advisinger, just in a speech here earlier referred to him as the president of venezuela, this is who the white house recognizes as the legitimate president. they say maduro is a dictator, a