Solid conservative and just plain right hey copper go
ahead and double check and make sure you got
clipped three good to go I know it's been
a while since I asked you so if you could
specially ready that one you got it you're good
to go OK so here's a deal let's talk
about latest developments so you heard me unpack earlier
as sort of the history the lay of the
land why how we got here what we're looking
at I mean I'm looking right now it's the
nonstop news cycle right now on on Fox here
on the big screen in the studio studio and
they're tiling it right now show down over Ukraine
8 5 00 troops by the way I'm looking
at the article just to make sure and there's
8 5 00 personnel stateside so we're not looking
at something different like a deployment to Europe for
preposition Ing this is separate so 8 5 00
personnel placed on a deployment height and state of
alert which basically is a pre- deployment warning order
it's it's a get ready to go order do
all the things you gotta do that's basically what
they do if they start canceling leaves they start
calling people in they start getting the logistics established
they start swearing away issues for the railhead and
and getting the everybody you know up on the
green ramp at Fort Bragg or wherever they're gonna
do this from and suppose yeah it's it's a
it's a big doings but they're not moving yet
they're not moving but still this is this is
a posture it's a forward leaning posture for the
US forces there's a lot of things happening in the world
that surround this and so copper let's do this
Greg Palco from Fox News gave one of the best
short summaries this morning that I've heard and so
I grabbed that sound clip copper let's go ahead
and play clip three continues now live from Kia
Ukrainian capital city are seeing four senior foreign affairs
correspondent Greg Palco back on the ground today and
Greg where are we there hello Bill we're watching
and waiting that people watching very carefully the Russian
troops masking on the other sides of their borders
if the latest move that we're seeing Bill is
in neighboring Belarus that country is literally 15 miles
from where we are right now what called record
number to Russian soldiers along with tanks artillery and
other hardware is flowing in there total figures now
well over 1 2 5, 000 soldiers on most
sides of Ukraine this is the Ukraine government is
still assessing the news over the weekend from the
UK that it has information that Russia is plotting
to install that puppet government air that's in line
with some things that the US is saying analyst
here say I could really only happen if Russia
decides to invade and if it succeeds and not
trying to help fend off that yes shipments of
US military aid arriving here over the weekend a
total of 1 80 tons so far of what
they call lethal aid like ammunition destined for Ukrainian
troops battling Russian back separates already in eastern Ukraine
as the US axon several fronts with ramifications take
a look evacuation of US diplomats families and non-
essential workers from here in Kyiv begins as early
as today experts tell us the move says something
about what the US is thinking about a possible
Russian invasion all right so so what you heard there
was a series of things happening a copper grab
the mic so that was clipped three go ahead
I think we're gonna need to hear a clip
two in a minute and I did grab the
mic there because I wanted to make sure I
was still alive by the way because when the
sound went off I thought for a second there
I had lost my mind my feed all right thanks
God go ahead and get clip too ready if
you don't mind and so you heard several things
from Greg Palk out there I want I want
to refresh those for you the hill .com reporting
that as of two days ago the hill .com
reporting that what he just said yes the US
is surprising some what we called lethal aids lethal
and non- lethal version of aid you can send
food stuff and medical supplies and all that kind
of stuff non- lethal does that help you stop
an invasion force well it might help you sustain
it doesn't help you necessarily to stop or to
deter well right now we have sent some form
of lethal aid which sounds like it's mostly in
the form of small arms and an ammunition for
a small arms that's great but that's not that's
not the big doings the big doings is gonna
wind up being can they get something heavier in
there something that can stop the basically the overwhelming
force that the the Russians can bring the bear
on air and armor and and so no we
don't see stingers and javelin is coming from US
right now however separate story off of breaking defense
.com breaking defense .com reports that as of this
weekend the defense ministers of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania
announced that they have received approval from DC to
send US made any tank weaponry to Ukraine and
any air stinger missiles so you got javelin and
armor you got stingers and aircraft and the adjacent
equipment that goes along with them being sent from
what I would call proxy suppliers so how's that
work well we sold because of a NATO alliance
we sold perhaps Lithuania X number of stingers and
then we said wink wink Lithuania we're not a
send them ourselves but we don't mind if you
sell some and so next thing you know the
surplus that maybe got more than what Lithuania asked
for from the US they can now sell the
surplus over to with our permission because they're probably
probably gonna be what they call a a sofa
agreement a status of forces agreement that the governance
how the US military in the US or the
Lithuanian military interact there was gonna also be on
being international compact on the sales and truthfully contracts
and they probably had some restrictions so you had
to have a modification of the contract perhaps even a
modification of the sofa if there's gonna be some
kind of training involved with it and now the
boom they're going out so all said and done
small arms stingers javelin's in route to Ukraine that's a
big doings now you heard the thing about Russia
reported to plan to report had a plan to
install a proclaim Kremlin leadership part of what started
all the crime media situation not just the fact that
there was unrest in the crime and in Russia
wanted it it was precipitated by the fact that
they had a former president who was very Russian
leaning and protest threw him out when he refused
to join the European Union and most of the people
of the of the nation of Ukraine wanted to
join the EU they overthrow his government and and
so now what we're hearing is Russia wants to
reinstall they've already picked out who they want now
granted that won't happen unless there's an invasion I
would dare say but the statements being given by
British intelligence are that former Ukrainian member of Parliament
is being considered a potential candidate he has nausea
a small pro Russian political party and they don't
even have any representation right now in Ukraine's parliament
but he's been hand selected by Putin to be
potentially ready to to take office should they have to
install a government there's there's lots of I mean
I don't know that I even get to all
the stories but I think one of the ones
that that that calls me the most is what
I heard last night and it's it's still up
right now let me go find that story and
see if I can pull it back down again
but but literally what we're seeing right now is
that the state department in a call said that
there was no ability for the US state department
to be prepared to evacuate Americans from Ukraine if
Russia invades they literally said that on a call
last night Jennifer Griffin Fox News is Pentagon correspondent said last
night in a tweet that she was on the
call and she quoted it directly that they had
no ability to to be able to rescue Americans
I got a call or I'll tell you what
I'm going to finish up this hour with a
bob from Athens hey Bob I got about a
minute here on right side how are you doing
today did we lose copper we got Bob yeah
hey Bob hey Bob Phil Williams right side I
got about a minute before we go to the
break what what's on your mind OK I'm a
veteran I'm not afraid of Joe Biden are you
afraid of Joe Biden if you were Putin would
you be afraid of Joe Biden no I don't
I don't think my neighbors house cats afraid of
Joe Biden right now I think the outcome is
inevitable Russia will go military well I think right
now they're certainly posting that way and I'm not
sure that we're ever gonna see and we shouldn't
we should not guarantee to Putin that we will
not expand NATO beyond what anybody wants to have
it because that would be Putin dictating things to
us but right now Bob I'll be honest with
you and by the way I served through the
Cold War too it's it's it's it was it was
an unusual time everything was geared towards you know
the fold of gap in the Soviets coming through
and and then it pivoted after 9 11 but
but you're right not most of fear there right
now it appears all right hey Bob thanks for the
call man I appreciate you being in the audience
thanks for your service we appreciate you very much
folks I've spent two hours on number one of
the triple dipper and I could keep going I
have not even gotten to all of the material
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and gotten ready for you but we're gonna shift
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