Philip breedlove said ukraines defenses can have a major effect on this floor if the us and nato provide ukraine with what it needs to counter russian aggression. He spoke during a virtual discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council about ukraines military strategy. This runs about an hour. Good evening, my name is melinda herring and i am decorated director of the Atlantic Council, thank you for joining us. Today were going to avail the counteroffensive in ukraine. We have five phenomenal experts and were excited about this. Thank you for joining us as well. We have an hour to the other and were going to have a conversation and at the tail and we invite you to put your questions into the chat or tog send us questions on twitter and ill be glad to read them and direct them to the right person. Without further ado welcome max boot who is the Jean Kirkpatrick fellow International Security studies at the council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to the Washington Post. We have general