Leader of measurable strength in europe, germany is beginning to wane. german government cites german law, we can t support lethal support to ukraine. obviously president biden will talk to scholz about it this afternoon. what general jack keane suggested biden should do today. i hope president biden takes out his wire brush today and deals with the chancellor on this. he has no intention of ever firing a shot at russia. think of that. that is what he has said to many of the people or his insiders. that would mean if russia plopped down in the baltics, it s unlikely germany would execute article 5, and attack russia as a result of that kind of provocation. john: what general keane was essentially saying, can germany be counted on to live up to its nato commitments? i think concerning russia it probably can t right now,
From similar circumstances. with the south vietnamese, ther are accounts and that he did no want to worry about getting those partners out then. he really felt it was an americ first moment in that he wasn t worried about getting our partners out in south vietnam and we saw what happened with the collapse they are. there is also the moment of the bin laden raid in the president the decision that was made president obama decided to be brave in bold in a very difficult moment, that s what leaders do. you wonder what president biden is thinking now. perhaps he s about to walk out there in announce that we are going to conduct a mission that we re going to walk down other areas. we re going to go outside the airport in make sure we get people home and do the right thing by them. i would also say with work guar to what general keane says, he going to say what a great job they re doing, and your going t hear that the temporary pause w sought up for eight hours of nobody getting out was beca
Reasons and we are all moved by this. but as senator risch pointed out, we saw these same films, the same videos in 2013. to the heart has its reasons but the head must control what happens. it seems to me, and i have been listening to fox all day, like a good student of fox, what general keane was saying, you could launch these tomahawk missiles from the eastern mediterranean, take down their air capacity, as senator mccain was adjusting, and that would give people relief. that wouldn t be regime change. but that would be stage one. and that, seems to be, is achievable and thought putting more boots on the ground for you martha: it seems that that is a two pronged approach, obviously. one to destabilize, to set assad back on his heels essentially and make it clear to him that there is a new game in town. what do you think the russians would do with that move? how much are the russians mixed in here with this flying