reinvigorated as ever. columnist for the washington post, david ignatius. also professor of history at new york youth, ruth. thank you for being with us. i was talking to richard haass earlier today and general twitty. we find ourselves in this difficult position, i think. i will say, perhaps i m being a bit too optimistic for the ukrainians, but just as they get russians got ran out of the kyiv area, i suspect they re going to have trouble because of their logistical problems, because of their morale problems, because of a military culture that is rotted to the core, and making great progress in the donbas. we have the sec def talking about it we re in it to drain the russians. we re in it to win it.