expenditure of munitions and other material, which both sides are doing at the moment, if the resupply line is interdicted, then the conflict cannot be sustained. so, it will bring russia from a hold in the donbas and i think we re beginning to see that s already happening, because progress is very, very slow. and we re in a war of attrition and the side which is best supplied and can best continue supplying itself is likely to prevail. and at the moment, it looks like the russians are having great difficulty in that particular sphere. they do seem, though, stuart, to have a lot of weaponry in mariupol. we re looking at some footage from mariupol. it s been relentless in that city, in particular the situation inside the azovstal steel plant. we ve heard from russian forces from inside that they ve broken
their entire strategy is the principle of mass. they have faced to mass at the right places. vladimir putin has a math problem in that he s fighting 44 million ukrainians. now, we ve heard from the pentagon their forces have been degraded and already 25%. they re down to about 140,000 soldiers. if you do the math, 140,000 soldiers, they re outnumbered 280:1. they continue to attack on this front of 250 miles. they would be much better off if they picked a spot and attacked hard. i think perhaps the area of donetsk would be good. number one, they have secure supply lines, which has plagued them from the very beginning. number two, they have friendly people there. the russian separatists who would be supporting them. so their supply lines would be interdicted. these efforts require at least
leadership that is rallying ukrainians. it is a resistant is the fact that we have not gone all in on this already. diplomatically, militarily, and economically. this is not a time for pause read we need to get in there and help them on the ground. we have columns of his troops lined up ready to be interdicted. we need to give that help to the ukrainians but we are sitting back and were not doing anything and were saying everything is on the table. putin is a global threat. he is an enemy to the world and that s what we have to start telling people who he is. we cannot take pressure off china either. we have to go after china, they are in it and we don t want them going into taiwan. this is huge, we ve got to come together. we had to lead the world in supporting president zelensky
area all the way up to the board errs and all the way around the country, nato aircraft would have to enforce that. any military aircraft that could be used to essentially attack civilians would be interdicted. that means any russian aircraft that entered but what would also likely happen and that s why you re hearing so much father unless they can electronically jam, for example, all the air defense systems along here and along this border area, well, they might have to interdict them because they would essentially have anti-aircraft pointing our aiming or lasing targets at them or possibly shooting at them so it would almost always provoke a war in a situation like that. so you might remember in iraq we did have that, but that s a place where we could control the airspace. yeah. clint, i mean, are there variables, differences maybe that could be carried out? so you don t take out the radar stations, you don t go into russian territory at all but you announced, for example, that the