of attrition or a grinding stalemate prevails and zelenskyy knows he is going to have to push hard to get even more weapons and even more support if he wants to be able to kind of push this over the edge so to speak, and he also knows that s going to be a challenge, that there are changes happening next month in congress, and so that s why he s there, to deliver that message not just to president biden, not just to the house and the senate, but also, i think, to the american people to make that appeal on a personal level, and in doing so by the way, he is also sending a very bold message to the west in terms of, look. we are united. we are staying the course here, and also to president putin who just earlier this week left the country to visit belarus, and what a stark contrast that is, victor, to see president putin sitting there in freezing cold