worse. as nato and the united states look at what can be done to help ukraine you have to look at that and where we have on the ground. tell us your sense of how the war is going and what we might see next. great question. the bottom line is that the war, the initiative has shifted from the russians with the invasion and the ukrainians primarily in the defense to where the ukrainians are taking limited offensive action to regain lost grounds and territory from the russian forces. if the initiative continues to go with the ukrainians i think what we are going to see and ine itible is russian forces will be in retreat. they won t be able to hold up against an increasing momentum from the ukrainians. and so the possibility is of course this can go on for weeks