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The images I can't shake, one I think of what's going on in Ukraine right now, come out of

Mary Ubal. Mary Ubal is a port city in Ukraine's south. It's been fighting off Russian aggression

since the war first broke out here in 2014. But the combat there now is different, more brutal,

more complete. The Associated Press had video journalists embedded there until recently.

They captured these images of pregnant mothers being carted out of a maternity ward after

it got bombed. The reporters kept filming as one mom who just lost some of her toes

had an emergency C-section. The baby survived. The doctors cried out with joy. And then minutes

later, vomit started up again. Now, Mary Ubal has been described as 90% destroyed. And

the last EU diplomat to leave this city said Mary Ubal is no more.

William Wexler, a scholar who's been following this conflict. He says, what's happening

here? It makes a grim kind of sense.

Crushing an opponent into submission has worked since the beginning of time.

Will is actually an expert on the Middle East. He directs the Atlantic Council's Refique

Career Center. But he says he's paying attention to what's going on in Ukraine because

what happens here is likely to reset the global order for at least a decade. Also, because

what he's seeing in the city of Mary Ubal and elsewhere, it's familiar to him. It reminds

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