and that s exactly what putin and his associates in the kremlin want to see. that s right. which is why the west needs to accelerate the delivery of air and missile defence capabilities to help ukraine stop russia from what it s doing. we ll get to future weapons supplies in a moment. butjust to think about the battlefield, and with your experience commanding the us army in europe, key officer in nato for years, you see the battlefield, and i m just surprised that you are so optimistic that it can change radically within the next, say, six months. first, we ve got winter, and, second, we ve got russia mobilising hundreds of thousands of new fighters. surely that is going to be a factor. it is a factor. but we know from history that war is a test of will and it s a test of logistics. the ukrainians have demonstrated for the whole world to see they have superior will, both soldiers as well as their population.
to destroy the power grid, the energy infrastructure, it makes ukraine s cities uninhabitable during the wintertime. then you re going to see millions of ukrainians heading back into europe again during the winter. and that s exactly what putin and his associates in the kremlin want to see. that s right. which is why the west needs to accelerate the delivery of air and missile defence capabilities to help ukraine stop russia from what it s doing. we ll get to future weapons supplies in a moment. butjust to think about the battlefield, and with your experience commanding the us army in europe, key officer in nato for years, you see the battlefield, and i m just surprised that you are so optimistic that it can change radically within the next, say, six months. first, we ve got winter, and, second, we ve got russia mobilising hundreds of thousands of new fighters. surely that is going to be a factor. it is a factor. but we know from history that war is a test of will and it s
the kremlin want to see. that s right. which is why the west needs to accelerate the delivery of air and missile defence capabilities to help ukraine stop russia from what it s doing. we ll get to future weapons supplies in a moment. butjust to think about the battlefield, and with your experience commanding the us army in europe, key officer in nato for years, you see the battlefield, and i m just surprised that you are so optimistic that it can change radically within the next, say, six months. first, we ve got winter, and, second, we ve got russia mobilising hundreds of thousands of new fighters. surely that is going to be a factor. it is a factor. but we know from history that war is a test of will and it s a test of logistics. the ukrainians have demonstrated for the whole world to see they have superior will, both soldiers as well as their population. the russians have no will for this fight. otherwise half a million men, military age males, would not have left russia to avoid be