alex. wonder what that is all about. very interesting news alert. okay, raf sanchez, thank you for that. we re going to continue this conversation as we bring in admiral james devee dees, and former supreme alied commander at nato. any clue on that last nugget? no definitive indications of his position, but let s face it. it s a long running dictatorship, kazakhstan, ever since it left the soviet union, it s been a dictatorship, kind of a stalin-esque. as a result, peoples fortunates fortunes rise and fall. you mentioned kazakhstan s departure that happened in 1991 from the soviet union, so russia at this point, does it take
the kind of terms, ambassador, that scare the hell out of people and make you wonder the sanctions and all this other punishment are only creating more of this reaction, a crazy reaction. neil, you re absolutely right. it s both stalin-esque and hitler-esque. this cleansing notion is, as you say, chilling. and it is chilling for the russians. the russians are also now already, since that speech, feeling this crackdown, feeling this oppression. and, neil, there are a lot of russians leaving are russia. in particular young, smart, educated, capable russians, they re leaving. they know the problem, they see what s coming. they ve seen it before. and when putin declares war on them, he says they are traitors, they are fifth column, they are opposing him, they got the message. they re leaving. neil: lull.. absolutely. ambassador, thank you very much.
i know you will. everyone assumes there are a lot of people in the movie who are running around with their heads cut off. not her. under tremendous stress. the way she handles it is with such good humor and poise it s a nice contrast. she s great. i think everyone looks forward to seeing it. it is an interesting point that you make about the president being more obsessed with the new york times than any of his predecessors. i think that s true. maggie haberman. the seeking of approval. it was his hometown newspaper, the elite newspaper. the thing he s different than any other president who complained about press coverage, he takes a sort of stalin-esque of the press. there is an old expression. when a con man tells you a con, believe him. the reason i demean the press is when you write negative stories about me, people won t believe
during vietnam. in my day, we re afraid to speak around the water cooler. because of all the political plants inside the pentagon who keep their ear to the ground, and almost in a i don t know, almost like in a stalin esque atmosphere where you re expected to speak and to think according to a certain world view. well, not every person who wears a uniform adheres to that world view. and so they re muzzled, their bosses are muzzled. their ability to send a plan to the president with a plan b is jefrb generated because the white house said gentlemen, if it s boots on the ground, a plan b, it won t happen. you re not even allowed to plan it. that s totally shocking. colonel hunt, the next president is going to inherit this military. how long will it take to get it up to strength to fight the war you describe? after 14 years of continuous combat, we have the greatest military maybe in our history. this is a fphenomenal military.
the difference between that and deleing facts, the reality of your career, alan west and you know, some of these other people, the irony for alan west, he was accusing people of being communist. somebody needs to acquaint him communist. someone needs to acquaint him with the term stalin esque. pleasing around with your wikipedia page is nothing comparing to global warming is a massive hoax, or obama s mandate to buy health insurance is the largest tax increase ever in america. if you can say those things, editing your wikipedia is small. this is like the wikipedia version of defriending. harry reid s office had his section about jack abramoff and