there. defense secretary lloyd austin got a lot of attention when we talked about weakening russia. he expanded and said this isn t about a fight between the u.s. and russia. but it s clear as we ve watched this war now entering the third month that it s been the ukrainian military that has weakened russia. first, through attrition. this war lasted longer than russia planned and through ukraine s successes in the battle field. it is also the u.s. goal to make sure that russia can t carry out this sort of aggression against its neighbors in the future, and that part of the u.s. strategy, the strategy we re seeing from the eu nato and the west is through sanctions, to essentially weaken and make sure that russia s economy isn t capable of supporting this type of war and that its defense industrial base isn t capable of carrying out or build organization manufacturing the sorts of weapons that we see russia using in ukraine. one of the other interesting points that austin announced in h