just that everything is so bad here with such an assessment of the situation , american general wesley clarker commander of nato forces in europe, i’m afraid that the surroundings of bahnuta can turn into a fire bag for the apu if the russians manage to push back the position of ukraine before the arrival of reserves from kherson force kiev to ask for a ceasefire, then putin will defeat the ukrainian forces, digging and holding on, but not the essence of heavy losses, nor the meat grinder drone of the russian armed forces filmed a characteristic scene, four fighters. all three colleagues are brought into the forest and shot because they violated the order, and it obviously consists in not retreating, despite the catastrophic losses andrey grigoriev vladimir ozerov to lead. in the belgorod region of the border

joining us now is cnn military analyst and former nato ally commander, general wesley clark.of where the fighting is happening now. it's not decisive. this is a stalemated fight. they're preparing defenses. they don't have the combat power to go on the offense against ukrainian forces. and putin is desperately seeking a cease fire in place. and the visit to china, trying to bring chinese pressure to bear. trying to split up the united states from the european ally. let's just stop it here. we've seen this pattern before. so i think -- yeah . and it seems like this was really meant to terrorize people in ukraine. is that the purpose of an attack like this. >> well, yes. i mean, it does have that value to the russians. they think they can intimidate and basically frighten the ukrainians of the surrender but it also disrupts industrial production. it distracts the leadership of the government and it's depressing to the west to see that we don't have the air defense to really help ukraine. there's not enough air defense assets unless we gave up everything else we have to really p

army general, wesley clark, the former nato supreme ally.hat do you make of this attempt by vladimir putin and xi jinping to actually try to project strength? >> that's what they've been wanting to do all along. they signed a strategic alliance before the war began in 2022, but china hasn't been very forthcoming. they understand the power of the sanctions. they also look at russia as a losing ally and they're not so anxious to get into that. and finally, wolf, think of it from china's perspective. they like russian technology, they certainly want hydrocarbons, but the last thing xi jinping really wants is a super empowered rebuilt soviet union on china's border. so a weak russia that is coming to him for help, that's pretty satisfying for president xi. >> good point. walk us through what's happening right now on the battlefield, general, with this brutal trench warfare in the east, for example. >> yeah, we're in a strategic stalemate, and the reason is russia's lost its offensive capacity, but the ukrainians have not been -- they don't have

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. >>> joining us, the cnn military analyst, retired general wesley clark.thanks for joining us. if ukraine was indeed behind these strikes on these russian air bases inside russia, of course, what does it say that they struck so deep inside russian territory? >> well, it says ukraine is developing its own technologies to do what the united states really doesn't want it to do, which is to strike russia. and, wolf, you have to understand these people don't want to give russia a sanctuary from which they can be bombed and their country destroyed. so, yes, it's a natural thing, they're going to do this. this is a high-tech industrialized country. it has its own defense industry and it can produce weapons like this. so the cure on this is get them what the military assistance they need to push russia out as rapidly as possible. >> do you believe ukraine strikes within russian territory actually make western allies, and you're the former nato supreme allied commander, make western allies nervous? >> oh, sure. of course they're nervous. i mean the western allies a

cnn military analyst, retired general wesley clark, the former nato supreme commander is joining us.hank you so much for joining us. first of all, will the ukrainians be able to withstand this most recent very aggressive push by russia in the east? >> i think they can hold it, i think they can envelope it, i think they can cut off the logistics for it, and i think they can prevail in this eastern fight. however, it's going to take more and more resources from the west, and neither the united states nor our european allies are doing enough right now. they need more military, they need better drones, they need more artillery repairs, spare barrels, ammunition. they need tanks, m-1 tanks need to be put in there or german leopards. this is a make or break moment, wolf, because we know russia will be back in the spring with a rebuilt force. they've got the manpower for it, they will mobilize it. they may not have the highest technology missiles, but they'll have plenty of old stuff that's very destructive. if they come through belarus, he's a completely new front and that's what we have t

joining me now is cnn military analyst, retired army general, former nato supreme allied commander, wesley clark, and arizona democratic congressman ruben geico who serves on the house armed services committee, and recently led a bipartisan congressional delegation to kyiv. congressman, i have to say, when we first heard the news of zelenskyy coming here to the united states, i sat up straight. this is a big deal for a guy who hasn't stepped foot outside his country since the russian invasion. what's the significance, and your mind? >> the significance in my mind is that what he's trying to do is draw direct correlation between our support and the survival and support and victory of ukraine. we have been very, very tactical in how we provide weapons to ukraine. it's been extremely palpable. it clearly has been put to their advantage. they have put russia on its back heels. there needs to be more done. when i was there, just about a weekend a half ago, what i heard from ukraine military, ukraine civil government, is that, you know, they can defeat russia on the battlefield. russia knows that. now

wesley clarke will lead to the loss of kiev's critical infrastructure and industrial potential, as clarkhington's approach leads to a dead end anna voronina together. marines from the pacific fleet congratulate the children on the new year, the soldiers arrived with gifts to volnovakh, a city that survived fierce battles, russian paratroopers asked the children in advance to write a letter to santa claus and gave them a real new year's surprise. thank you very much for providing joy to our children during such a difficult time, the gifts were super for everyone who ordered everything. everything came of the world got well-being. now footage from the government press office well what baby? here, in fact, not only a racket is a table for you and your whole family that you could play. he will not break all his weather rain. this is the racket of the chinese world champion frangindon. she is said to be very good. here, come on, what can try is ready. brother to see you all vladimirovich olga vladimirovna roma your name is mom more roma calls. yes, tyoma tyoma ivana and aga nastenka yes ivana

you also have general wesley clark and they are talking heads. but they fail to recognize the russian military doctrine of which is based in part or certainly analogous to that of the doctrine of warfare. a terry, what is about an enemy? and so when i see that even if you have a particular point to me, you should engage with the office. if you were mentioned that it took very difficult to sort through the various narratives, especially given that they are so polarized. i wonder how do you personally see through all these gas and bob here arrive at your own analysis? do you have any rules that you follow? you know that you arrive at, you know, your own opinions. you need to be aware of all the different views and you need to access those fields. so it doesn't help if r t. c and other russian outlets are bad because, you know, i, i was growing up, i was a child during the cold war. and for, quite frankly, you know, i would, you know, i love social radio with, you know, avoid the voice of moscow road rage and moscow, baby. and, you know, i could see

they’ll bang, yes, and this general wesley clark, by the way, who, uh, wanted to seize the airport inristina, yes. in 1999, yes, yes, he called what was happening in bakhmut a meat grinder for the ukrainian army, that is, not for the russian one. they are generally there, namely a meat grinder for the ukrainian army. capture. e cities will make a difference. yes, this territory of the dpr yes, the former now this territory of russia is being liberated. well, wait for us to grab a bang, and everything will fall down there. we will not do this, because in order to fall down you need to break fron here is a wwii classic. it is actually still breaking through the front, there are tank, wedges, tactical landings are being landed at some depth, destabilizing you, this is what it is, a decisive victory that allows you to capture a small territory and defeat the army and create some kind of turning point in the war banged. yes, we will be very pleased and, uh, what does it mean to liberate the city, that, many ukrainian soldiers will die there. well, no matter how it will be somehow. still mi

wesley clarke will lead to the loss of kiev, the most important infrastructure and industrial potential, as clarke noted , washington's approach leads anna voronina to a dead end together. romanian border guards found another ukrainian deserter frozen to death in the mountains, the search for six, the escaped military lasted almost a week, the deserters secretly crossed the romanian border in the mountains and they noticed they got lost, two fell off the cliff, received fractures, two more who escaped were soon found. and two more, only after 3 days , two ukrainians were alive, became victims of a snowstorm and frost. the soldiers were lightly dressed and did not have food supplies, according to the romanian media, the deserters were hiding, fearing to go to prison under the new ukrainian law, the fugitives were threatened with 12 years in prison to adopt this law caused mass protests in ukrainian society. now the news of the economy maria grigorieva masha is joining me kind morning. starting next year, the central bank introduces special limits on microbes. rum good morning. yes, the l

actions in washington are detrimental to kiev, the former head of the nato allied forces in europe, wesley clarkg to the general, the biden administration intends to drag out the conflict. we are in the process of fueling an impasse. they take losses. they are deprived of critical infrastructure. they lose their energy, they lose their industrial potential and they lose their financial basis as a state, and we bleed them in this with alarming forecasts from the locals. media shared and the former president of poland aleksander kwasniewski according to him according to him, because of the conflict in ukraine, there was a real threat of a third world war, and one of the key factors in global change. he called the election of joe biden president of the united states in turn the leader of the french movement. patriots, florian, telepu pointed out that helping ukraine, the west openly supports the regime that glorifies the nazis, he is even more surprised by the fact that the european public. doesn't even try. this is to condemn a simple frenchman. now all attention to the consequences of the energy

so this, maybe, everything is just so bad with us, the american general wesley clark, the former commander of nato forces in europe, agrees with such an assessment of the situation i’m afraid that the surroundings banged, they can turn into a fire bag for the apu, if the russians manage to push back the position of ukraine before the arrival of reserves from kherson and force kiev to ask for a ceasefire, then putin will defeat the ukrainian forces dug in and hold on, but suffer heavy losses the armed forces filmed a characteristic scene, four fighters lead a strip of three colleagues into the woods and shoot them because they violated the order, and it obviously consists in not retreating, despite catastrophic losses andrey grigoriev vladimir ozerov together. in the kherson region, new units of russian intelligence officers are preparing to carry out combat missions, and margarita semenik is training. at the training ground, the first platoon of the rifle group of a separate reconnaissance battalion, the final training of combat coordination in the ranks of military personnel, previously m

everything is so bad with such an assessment of the situation, i agree with the american general wesley clarker commander of nato forces in europe , i’m afraid that the surroundings of bahnuta can turn into a fire bag for the armed forces if the russians succeed to push back the position of ukraine before the arrival of the dosage from kherson to force kiev to ask for a ceasefire, then putin will defeat the ukrainian forces, digging and holding on, but not the essence of heavy losses, nor the meat grinder drone of the russian armed forces filmed a characteristic scene of four battles. ytsa is running into the forest with three colleagues and shot for violating the order, and it obviously consists in not retreating, despite the catastrophic losses andrey grigoriev vladimir ozerov to lead. well, here are the height losses only in november more than 8,000 soldiers and officers, russian units liberated several more settlements of the donetsk people's republic , sergei shoigu reported the situation at the front, denis alekseev, liberation. donbass by the forces of the russian troops everything con

. >>> joining me to talk more about russia's war on ukraine is general wesley clark.ommander. good to see you. so what do you make of russia's ongoing strategy? we have been talking about this for a while. they are only upping the ante on targeting civilian infrastructure, making it more miserable, taking out the power grid. talk us to about this strategy. i mean, russia thinks it's working. >> well, russia needed this strategy to keep the pressure on ukraine. so it's an anti-humanitarian strategy. but, fredricka, let's be clear. it's making it much more complicated for ukraine to modify its industrial complex and produce the weapons and ammunition that ukraine needs to continue the war. so it also puts much more burden on the west. we've got to supply the artillery rounds and other equipment that ukraine would like to be able to produce but is having trouble producing for this very reason. and our correspondent said that the people in ukraine are angry. well, the people in america should be angry about this. this is an assault on humanity, and yet our own people, our

when i asked this of wesley clark.eneral clark years ago when he was running for president, perhaps he was an he was taken back a little bit because he didn't feel that there was any politics in the military. now can i just that's the persona he wanted me think about but of course is politics. first of all, humans are political animals. oh, my lord, no, no, no. it's it's absolutely. that's that's what with all respect to general clark. yes, that's that's that's particularly in the 19th century. right. which was highly which is much more political civil war was. oh, my god. so no, no, i'll i'll stand by mine in my answer over the generals on this one. i agree with you there as well. let me take or revise this one remark. yes. i said about the growth and exception, which i should note is i do think his capacity to see the world in terms in philosophy, terms did rise within it. that's growth it's there was a deepening philosophy ethical consciousness. i think he was a more philosophical theologically attuned man when he w

everything is just so bad in our country with such an assessment of the situation , american general wesley clarkto forces in europe, agrees, i’m afraid that the surroundings of bahnuta can turn into a fire bag for the armed forces if the russians manage to push back the position of ukraine before the arrival of reserves from khersons force kiev to ask for a ceasefire, then putin will defeat the ukrainian forces dug in and hold out, but suffer heavy casualties, not a felling drone of the russian armed forces filmed a characteristic scene of four battles. ytsa vsu lead three colleagues in the forest and shoot them because they violated the order, and it obviously consists in not retreating, despite the catastrophic losses andrey grigoriev vladimir ozerov together. today , 60 of our servicemen returned to their homeland from ukrainian captivity. we hope that everything will be fine for everyone and that our guys are still there. they will still be at home. immediately after the release, everyone was given warm clothes, hot meals and an opportunity to talk with loved ones. yes, okay okay. if necessa

. >> when i asked this of wesley clark, he was running for president four -- he was taken aback a bit because he didn't feel like there was any politics in the military. [laughter] he said the persona -- and think about that. first of all, humans are political animals. >> oh, my lord. absolutely. with all respect to general clark, particularly in the 19th century, right, which was much more political. >> the world war vase. >> i stand by my answer -- >> i agree with you as well. >> one remark. about the growth and inception, which i should note, is i do think is, his capacity to see the world in theological terms, in philosophical terms, did rise. there was a deepening philosophical consciousness. i think he was a more philosophical, theologically attuned man when he went to the ford's theater on that day then when he was hustled into the city from baltimore. >> i think he is a product of the war and -- did he really begin that early on, actually, even in -- when he was reading theology? and i book some theology he was reading early on as well. does that factor into his morality as we

at this point, a guy by the name of general wesley clark was leading in the polls, and so careful withink trump has a strong hold on the base vote of the republican party. >> i think this is a key thing that cornell is talking about here. it doesn't matter if donald trump is the head of the ticket or the leader of the party. as long as trumpism is still a motivating factor in pennsylvania, in wisconsin, in georgia, and in arizona. trumpism is still going to lead to crazy, nutty candidates that the national party can't stop. so is moving away from him really doing something if your local voters are thirsting for that kind of candidate? >> well, my fear, i think you're right, but my fear is moving away from him, is not going to go towards something better, but something worse because of how the party has evolved. as i always have said, and others have said this, if trump didn't change the republican party, he reflected the republican party. in 2016, give him credit. he understood the republican party as it existed then, better than any of the other republicans who held office, including

so this, maybe everything is just so bad with us, american general wesley agrees with such an assessment of the situation clark former commander of nato forces in europe i'm afraid that the surrounding area has gone crazy, it can turn into a fire bag for the armed forces, if the russians manage to push back the positions of ukraine before the arrival of reserves from kherson and force kiev to ask for a ceasefire, then putin will defeat the ukrainian forces dug in and hold on, but suffer heavy losses meat grinder drone of the russian armed forces filmed a characteristic scene, four fighters all lead three colleagues into the forest belt and shoot them because they violated the order, and he obviously is not to retreat, despite the catastrophic losses andrey grigoriev vladimir ozerov lead. in the kherson region,

i'm going back to the way back machine to wesley clark, right?re democrats think i know who the answer is. look -- look at all of the things they check off on a piece of paper. and then they see them in person and think, whoa. that is not a person who could be elected. we don't know if that's happening with desantis. >> and also legal fallout, how it will play. indictment comes, send republicans scurry away from him or electrify him and have them rally around? >>> ahead, digging further into some items on trump's horrific week, month, year. nbc's ken dilanian joins us about the trump organization convictions and what they could mean for the former president and his family. named a lot in this. >>> also ahead, police officers who fought to protect the capitol on january 6th are honored during a congressional ceremony. while gop leaders, mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy get snubbed during this ceremony. we'll be right back. ♪limu emu & doug♪ it's nice to unwind after a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance s

wesley clark, howard schultz, mike bloomberg, they are like paper tigers.the dating apps in iowa and new hampshire. >> it's harder than it looks. >> it's much harder. >> barack obama used to say, you know, when you campaign, they lift the hood, they kick the tires. when they do that, they discover things about candidates, do they have charisma, are they fighting for me, are they weird, do they have a glass jaw. >> are they weird. >> people close to trump believe that he can take on desantis and do what he has done to the republicans who tried to oppose him. desantis has never been against trump. >> is there going to be a real kind of duel between the two of them, and maybe they both destroy each other, and open the door? >> unless there's a viable third option, i don't know. >> what is that? >> i don't know. larry hogan or somebody else who might run. i don't see a larry hogan or liz cheney getting the nomination. >> mike pompeo, are you serious? >> he sure wants it, and he's positioning himself to be the less crazy, you know, slightly less -- >> mike pence

wesley clark that 90 days is the maximum that ukraine can count on, and in a clash with russia, despitest ammunition already depleted at all european production sites that there is no way to reproduce them, and the united states of america today. the only thing they can say is that quite large human resources in ukraine and they are practically inexhaustible. here in cnn, such a phrase was once said. she really surprised me. you don’t say, don’t worry, ukraine at best or at worst has another 7 million people who can be thrown into the flames of war. this means, so read between the lines they are ready to burn 7 million people out of nothingness, because he absolutely does not care. who doesn't create? and what are they going to teach now, right? do n't forget one more simple thing. this is a very good scheme for making money, not only centralized, and management is not only in the centralized decision-making, but also do not forget one simple thing, training, one fighter. now the pentagon is taking about $90,600, which is money that americans and europeans really don't care about. how m