some point in the future based on what the russians have been saying across these lines, it does appear they are openly and knowingly targeting civilian infrastructure. that s the kind of thing which investigators will be looking very closely at when it comes to future war crimes tribunals. katty kay, jump in. william, i wanted to ask you more about the generals and what you think that means in terms of morale of the troops, how that message may be getting back to putin. because one of the questions i think as we go forward and we look at the russian strategy going forward is how much reliable information is vladimir putin himself actually getting ? do we know he sees the war as we are seeing the war? do we know whether he is seeing the losses? do we know if he is seeing the loss of some of these generals? what is your understanding from the reporting on whether the deaths of these generals may be getting through to the kremlin and what it might mean?
let s talk about, though, your reaction to it and how you believe that joe biden finally did divide the world again against democracy against the forces of autocracy. joe biden has been speaking since the campaign about a world divided between the forces of democracy and the forces of autocracy, and, of course, what we ve seen in ukraine is a flare-up in that conflict. i think it was extremely important that he went right up to the edge of the dividing line that now sits across europe and he said, we re going to stand up to this, we are going to fight for this, we have going to support ukraine, we are not going to be cowed. you know, past administrations have been hesitant to stand up to putin. he was not hesitant to stand up to putin. i think the message of the speech from beginning to end was of strength, and i also think
to collectively put the tools that president zelenskyy and his brave fighters need in their hands. ed luce, as a historian, i want your takeaway on the president s speech and the words that are so controversial. i feel like spending an afternoon with those refugees and with the troops would steel him for every word that he said in that speech. yeah, i would agree with the consensus. this has the makings potentially of an historic speech, depending, as mike mcfaul says, whether it is upheld in practice in the coming weeks. you know, i think the comment about wishing putin would go is a little bit of a storm in a teacup. it is clearly what biden wishes. it is what we all wish. it is what macron wishes. it is what all western counterparts to biden wish. some confusion as to whether that would become nato s
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to let the other side know you re not scared of them. the fact that joe biden didn t play by marques of queensbury rules, the fact he gave a scripted state of the union speech and as he turned to give the speech to nancy pelosi and others he said, let s go get him, he did it on purpose. people who are saying it is a mistake are fools. after the speech, near the end of the speech he says this as well. joe biden has been doing this longer than most people criticizing him have been alive. it is psy ops, he is letting vladimir putin know we re not playing in between the lines. i think most americans agree with him, putin is a butcher and putin shouldn t stay in power later on. the state department did their job cleaning it up, we understand, but we have to be grown up enough to have a little bit of creative ambiguity and that s exactly where biden has putin right now, guessing, finally. well, you know, joe, richard