From foreign minister lavrov in a second. if you talk about weakening russia in terms of the conventional force that essentially means that russia is going to become more, not less reliant on use of nuclear weapons. it s interesting during the cold war, think about it, we had conventional inferiority on our part. we adopted a document, we would use arms first use of them, in order to competence tate for our conventional military inferiority. if we have an expressed policy of weakening russia in terms of military forces overall, that is simply going to mean, in order to remain a great power, russia has to put more, not less reliance on nuclear weapons. we just need to think that through. again, i m sitting back here watching all of this, and i m surprised at what seems to be the extension of our aim, expansion of our aims, both in ukraine, what we re prepared to do militarily and more broadly. i m just saying, let s take,
Very quickly. the second is to put real, really powerful aircraft in places like poland and the balkan states. remember, in many ways, the russian army, the russian military is a joke. they don t have a single stealth fighter plane. their army is a bunch of ill-disciplined conscripts. their navy has only one operational ship in the black sea, but nobody knows that because no one yet, at least in natoo or the united states, has put real military power in the face of russia to force putin to come to grips with his own military inferiority and tell the rest of the world it s a hollow shell. all we have done so far is to do a head fake, if you will, with conventional aircraft. we could do more, short of going to war with the ukraine, before putin restarts his campaign of imperial aggression. general, let me follow up
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