georgia - they never faced western army with weapons. he was able to do that in aleppo and elsewhere because there were not enough. there were some very, very brave reporters who were there covering and photographers but the world was not watching closely day after day. the citizens did not have cell phone cameras they were uploading and we were not seeing these flood of i mages from thoe places. exactly, it was another restraining force on him and ukraine that didn t exist in these other theaters. he had a system basically that was up against a weak system in all of these wars of the last decade. he thought the same thing was going to happen in ukraine. instead he triggered a war with a strong system that s ukrainian highly motivated. trained for a decade now and that was some of the most sophisticated weapons but also training on those weapons and operated in small groups against