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So ukraine needs us to continue to do a number of things. to supply intelligence, particularly from the us surveillance assets in space. it needs us to look after the refugees and displaced people so the country can focus on the fight without worrying about the families that have left and it needs massive support of material and money in order to equip the military. and the challenge there in the time they have available is it s no good trying to introduce anything new and complicated, because they couldn t work it or maintain it. what we have to do is find supplies of stuff they re used to using and some of those stock piles in the west will now be getting depleted and industry won t replace it that quickly. the fear of escalation has been constraining nato, what is your view of that. that s right, this is a war between russia and ukraine and a confrontation between nato and russia. if the west were to act in a way that gave vladimir putin the excuse to expand the war to the rest of n
There are lobbyists and lawyers in washington. working pro bono. they weren t before and now they are. . that s exactly right. that is not usually what they are known for. but in this case helping to put together a war crimes kind of evidence in case the administration goes that way. . you mentioned one of the leading firms has actually filed basically a war crimes lawsuit on behalf of the ukrainian government. you also talk about the migs that possibly poland might supply. and there are some complications. this may or may not happen. but the question i have here is, if that is going to be supplied, at what point does vladimir putin say, hey, this makes you guys a co-combatant. and describe why that matters so much, the legal argument in how the u.s. versus russia sees that. . president biden s view has been we can supply arms, supply
Australia is a principal ally in the broadcast and has helped supply intelligence. they ve been allies in a couple of wars. there are going to be times when you need your allies and your allies aren t going to be your allies if you are constantly at odds with them. david, one of the things, as you know, that mr. trump as a candidate criticized obama for often, as did republicans, was the red line on syria. so the on notice for iran sort of begs the question of what kind of ultimatum is that and why are they using that when they thought president obama either shouldn t have said red line or should have followed it up with something? it would be interesting to know what secretary mattis thought about that statement. i agree, and it was sufficiently vague that it s not clear what they re talking about.