ukrainians at the russian air force bases inside russia, and they re not feeling any pain from the ukrainian counter offensive against the strategic air fleet. so the situation is dire it s not just electric grid, the water grid, it s also the death of civilians throughout the country, from these cruise missile attacks. they may get worse, because the iranians are on the verge of providing essentially ballistic missiles which can strike deeper and faster but it is a tough situation. i think the end of the day, there s no question, putin has lost the strategic war already and will never be able to regain it but in an operational sense, we need to upgrade ukrainian offensive weapon systems, the missiles, the m-1 tanks, armed drones and hopefully let them
dollar going to this, what offensive measures do they need? well, of course, what president biden and his team, defense secretary austin and secretary blinken are trying to balance, they don t want to, quote, provoke putin. they don t want him to feel he has to go nuclear to preserve his own skin. all of which is pretty unlikely. he s thrown everything in the balance now. i think it s time to reassess the whole notion of allowing the ukrainians to survive as opposed to turning this into some kind of a tactical military victory. missiles, 300-kilometer range, ground to ground missiles to strike these targets, and tanks, i worship the m-1 tank and i think finally armed drones. we just got to give these people offensive technology. they can t just be subject to
you can prevent disaster. so right now, ukraine is in a situation where they put the russian army in check, not checkmate. they re being destroyed from the air over time and by artillery fired by the russians. we have got to provide a tool for the ukrainians to break out of it. one battery of patriot missiles is not it. they simply must have long distance surface to surface missiles, and the m-1 tank to try and give them the ability to unravel the russian army. putin is going to try for a spring offensive. he is getting belarus to join the war. i don t think they will buy into this. ukraine still has immense casualties and is in great danger. we need to change the game on the ground. we re not, because we are
six months, i think what putin is doing now is he is trying to organize belarus, this poorman lukashenko with his third rate army and impoverished nation, trying to organize them to participate in the next russian offensive. and we got to get m-1 tanks on the ground, lethal drones, and possibly f-16 fighters. and these are all issues to absorb into a foreign military that may take months. let me just, in case our audience zont doesn t know what a patriot air defense system does, it is capable of bringing down cruise missiles, short range ballistic missiles and aircraft at a significantly higher ceiling than previously provided air defense systems to ukraine. . it s one of our marquee weapons systems or defense systems and general mccaffrey, it is not infallible. you can still get missiles
they need more military, they need better drones, they need more artillery repairs, spare barrels, ammunition. they need tanks, m-1 tanks need to be put in there or german leopards. this is a make or break moment, wolf, because we know russia will be back in the spring with a rebuilt force. they ve got the manpower for it, they will mobilize it. they may not have the highest technology missiles, but they ll have plenty of old stuff that s very destructive. if they come through belarus, he s a completely new front and that s what we have to expect. so this is the time that the allies should be really pushing the support into ukraine to get russia out of ukraine. that s the best way to finish this. the pentagon today did announce, general, another $275 million in u.s. military assistance to ukraine.