I Am Blunt Sometimes; I Am Diplomatic

We Know That Weapons, Heavy Weapons Continue To Flow Across The Border From Russia Into Ukraine. And We Have Now, In Recent Days, Indications That Russians - Russian Military Units Themselves Have, On Occasion, Fired Into Ukraine.

There Are No Cookie-cutter Solutions That You Can Apply From One Circumstance To Another. They're Different. Our Interests, As Implicated, Are Different. The Tools We Have At Our Disposal Are Different.

We Are Safer If There Are Not Nuclear Arsenals Around The Planet That Can Be Utilized, Stolen, Sold To Terrorists And Others Who Would Do Harm.

We Also Have Begun To Assess With The Ukrainians The Scope Of Their Larger Security Assistance Requirements. We Have Had Teams Out Making That Assessment With The Ukrainians. And We Have Already Provided Various Forms Of Equipment And Support To Ukraine.

Well, I Think By Any Expectation South Africa Has Come A Tremendously Long Way. We've Seen A Society That Many People Thought Couldn't Withstand A Peaceful Transition To Democracy Without A Great Deal Of Violence, In Fact, Make That Transition And Do It In Relative Peace And Security.