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A couple of interesting points as I open the program here.

I want to reiterate something because it's becoming more and more apparent that our government, that our defense department, that our state department, that our commander-in-chief

are afraid that if Ukraine is able to stalemate Russia or even defeat Russia in any effective way, then Putin might use nukes.

Therefore, the thinking goes, we can provide minimum support to Ukraine, minimal support, just enough to make it clear that we're supporting our allies in Ukraine, but not enough where they can effectively really take out the Russian army.

And so the Ukrainians are going to have to continue to suffer. They're going to have to continue to die. The Russians are free to commit atrocities and war crimes, which they are doing as I speak.

They hit a maternity ward today. Maternity ward. Because Putin doesn't give a damn. He didn't give a damn when his surrogates and Syria used mustard gas against the people there.

He didn't care about that in the least. He didn't give a damn when they blew out the Chechnyans under another pretext that he manufactured, slaughtering the civilians. He could care less.

And yet, it's a very strange situation. Many of the people now who have come to the position that he's unstable, that he's a monster, that he's a war criminal, some of them were once, Putinites, claiming that we were instigating Putin, that we were provoking Putin.

Of course, Biden left him open. He left the door wide open for Putin to attack, given what he did in Afghanistan and all the signals he sent Putin about his weakness and all the things he wouldn't do.

But now we're having to listen to arguments or analysis on radio, on TV and the media generally, by retired Lieutenant Colonel's, among others, that we cannot allow Ukrainians to win.

We cannot allow the Ukrainians to effectively defend themselves, even though there are strong of raid people. I heard Petraeus effectively say this today, because you don't know what Putin might do in response. He's so angry.

U.S. spy chief say Putin may escalate despite Ukraine. This is Reuters. Leaders of U.S. spy HD said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin may intensify the assault on Ukraine despite military setbacks and economic hardships, revolting from international sanctions, setting up an ugly next few weeks.

Our analysts assess that Putin is unlikely to be deterred by such setbacks, and instead may escalate Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, told the annual House of Reps Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, where she testified whether intelligence agency directors.

She said with tension, so high there's always the potential for unintended escalation.

Unintended escalation means providing the Ukrainians with the ability to defend themselves. Apparently that's what it means.

Haines said Putin's announcement that he was elevating his nuclear forces readiness was unusual, but intelligence analysts had no observed changes in Russia's nuclear posture beyond what was detected during previous international crises.

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