a month to regroup. those troops up there are decimated. those battalion tactical groups, 40 of the 130 they started with are combat in effective. so i want to remind that everybody in america, though, we spent $9 billion a month in the war in iraq. 15 years ago. $300 million a day. we spend $2.4 billion thus far in ukraine. that s eight days of combat in iraq. we need to flood the zone. we need to push the attack and get equipment into the ukrainians so they can fight the russians where they are. i want you to help me with your understanding. in kyiv, the ukrainians were effective at repelling russian troops. trying to take land here. the russians have a footfold. they have in these separate regions. they have taken some of these other areas you see in red. what offensive weapons does ukraine need to kick russians out as opposed to keeping them from taking? you re trying to push them out now. one of the weapons, i m going to play this video. this is one of the drones.
thing. 150 aircraft lost. 135 helicopters lost. more than 1,800 armored personnel vehicles lost. put this in context, professor, in terms of what russia s fighting capability is after that sort of loss. these are actually unprecedented in a post world war ii period and unprecedented in world war ii to lose so much of your equipment in such a short period of time puts an extraordinary strain on your supply system. soldiers need to be provided with a whole range of equipment if they re going to be able to do the job that they re going to be asked. we have some really interesting estimates. i don t want to be too boring about it. the russians fight in what are called battalion tactical groups. they went in with 130. each has about ten. what we heard today from the western intelligence briefing is that 39 of those became combat
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