kind of weapons that the pentagon says that the russians are amassing, like kirby just said. i want to share and un pretty interesting take from former u.s. ambassador mcfaul, he wrote this for the washington post. his threat of escalation, however, is cheap top. putin is bluffing. he is deliberately allowing the u.s. intelligence community to discover data about escalation in order to scare us away from helping ukrainians win. is he right? especially when you think about putin pledging to pursue this conflict to the end. he says peace talks are dead. well, it should be on our s interests as the united states and europe and the foreign nato alliance to make sure ukraine winds. what putin is doing is he is deterring the united states, which you, know is an absurd thing to say. the u.s. out matches together with nato russian capabilities exponentially. and putin knows that, of
membership? if they were to join nato, what would putin do? good question. the russians have already warned their neighbors specifically thought there would be consequences. who knows? who can blame them for wanting to jump right and after seeing what is happening to ukraine. they don t want to be the next ukraine. it is clear that putin does not want to challenge any of the nato countries directly. that has never been his goal, it is not what ukraine is about, he may have talked a lot about nato s defense, all the more important thing is that it allows nato to deploy under the guise of nato, more forces and more firepower, more defenses into sweden and finland that they are already. there is already plenty of that in the north. but it just adds a bit more, and does more of what putin does not want. to unify europe. someone tweeted today, how badly of a decision have you
night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. ukraine s fighter and russians invasion is now entering day 50, with heightened alarm over russia s renewed offensive in the, east and a promise of even more military aid from the u.s.. president biden spoke to ukrainian president zelenskyy by phone today. he said he has signed off on an 800 million dollar security package which includes more weapons and ammunition. that follows zelenskyy s latest twitter post, which is pleading for more help. we have been defending ourselves against russia much longer than they invade planned. we have destroyed more russian weapons and military equipment than some armies in europe have currently possessed. but this is not enough. freedom must be armed better than tyranny. western countries have never seem to make it happen. the final weeks are over the tierney, and the number of people say depends on them.
good question. the russians have already warned their neighbors specifically thought there would be consequences. who knows? who can blame them for wanting to jump right and after seeing what is happening to ukraine. they don t want to be the next ukraine. it is clear that putin does not want to challenge any of the nato countries directly. that has never been his goal, it is not what ukraine is about, he may have talked a lot about nato s defense, all the more important thing is that it allows nato to deploy under the guise of nato, more forces and more firepower, more defenses into sweden and finland that they are already. there is already plenty of that in the north. but it just adds a bit more, and does more of what putin does not want. to unify europe. someone tweeted today, how badly of a decision have you ever made that it cost sweden and finland to join nato. that is how significant this is. this is something
fighter and russians invasion is now entering day 50, with heightened alarm over russia s renewed offensive in the, east and a promise of even more military aid from the u. s.. president biden spoke to ukrainian president zelenskyy by phone today. he said he has signed off on an 800 million dollar security package which includes more weapons and ammunition. that follows zelenskyy s latest twitter post, which is pleading for more help. we have been defending ourselves against russia much longer than they invade planned. we have destroyed more russian weapons and military equipment than some armies in europe have currently possessed. but this is not enough. freedom must be armed better than tyranny. western countries have never seem to make it happen. the final weeks are over the tierney, and the number of people say depends on them. arm ukraine now to defend freedom.