strangers rides. they say they want to help because they feel they know what it is like to experience something like this. they also feel and we hear this a lot that they could be next. and they are very afraid that poland could be the next place that poland putin comes to. and they want to help ukrainian neighbors. and it is amazing, because you do see all these displays of regular people bringing food, setting up fire, setting up tents. and literally opening up their homes because they want to help. stephanie? it is a proud, proud moment for poland. so many polish people coming to the aid of ukrainian neighbors. alison, thank you. meanwhile, in ukraine, people there are bracing for yet another day of violent attacks. with us now is alexei sorkin, political editor for the kyiv independent. you re reporting has been extremely important. you have put yourself in harm s way and have done a real public service. help us understand.
come together, because even in the last few days, the gop continues to go after president biden. specifically on his response to ukraine. it s amazing. a week ago, you and i would not a forecast that there would be this kind of unity behind the view that putin is a bad man, and that he s done a very bad thing. it ll make it very difficult for trumpist republicans, who, for the last five years, i have been excused and putin, and enabling putin. for those who have been questioning whether democracy is a great idea, or necessary, in the united states and around the world, compared to seven days ago, a lot of people will rethink that. republicans in democrats may not be coming together, but when we look back on this, historically, what will you think about all of these countries from the west, really in the last week, two weeks, really coming together. especially as it relates to the
that is what he is trying to fund and encourage. the country to get behind. all right, before we go, we have reviewed where we are at, let us talk about where we are going. general mcafee, which is the ukrainian military need most right now? i do not think there is going to be any substantial change to material inferiority to the russians. we are not going to get air defense in the, we are not going to declare a no fly zone. we are not going to put a land sanctuary in place as we had done in the balkans. we simply cannot make up for the 11 to 1 disparity in the military budgets of ukraine and russia. so, i think they are on their own basically. putin does have about 200 lines of influence on right now. saying that he made a dreadful mistake. some of them will not buy in for 30 days, a year. some of them are immediate. i think he has been humiliated.
coming next. and particularly with president zelenskyy, i was just in touch with somebody who is very close to him a few hours ago. and we are strategizing about exactly the answer to your question. what happens next. and talking about a particular, would it be better or worse for the resistance if he was alive in lviv. or if he was captured or dead in kyiv. and we had a kind of abstract conversation about pluses and minuses of those two things. and at the end of our conversation, he said mike, does not matter, because he is not leaving. they are going to stay, they are going to fight i think peter makes a very good point about poland by the way. 1939, they talked and fought valiantly. ultimately they were all matched by two armies on the same side. the good news, it s just one army. it s not hitler and stolen. it s putin. and this army is not well equipped as we have seen and general mccaffrey has been telling us for days and days.