Own, but listening to general hurtling analyze it, i think the ukrainians have a quality of their own that the russians don t have. we have seen what the russians are capable of, the barbarism, the plunder, the absolute horror they can inflict, but even so the ukrainians are still there, still fighting and they re going to be more capable of fighting. i think there s reason to be hopeful even though there s going to be a lot of war damage, killing of people and personnel, innocent civilians as well as the soldiers involved. so war is not a happy occasion for anyone, and long wars certainly don t benefit anyone, and the longer this goes on, however, i think the ukrainians have a better chance of prevailing. barbarism was the right word that you said, i heard that. a senior defense official tells cnn that russian forces are having significant morale issues, this official says that they have been disillusioned by the war, weren t properly
Informed or trained, weren t ready physically or mentally. what kind of an impact do you think that s going to have in the next phase of this fight? you mentioned it in your answer a moment ago, but, i mean, they re dealing with a lot, and they re bringing in new people who don t seem to even be as enthused about this war as the people that were there before? well, what s happening is they re seeing the truth. they have been lied to, the russian people have been lied to. putin has been main lighting lies and disinformation directly into the arteries and the minds of the russian people including the russian military personnel. and what they re doing now is seeing the truth, and our hope is going to be ultimately that the russian people see the truth of what putin calls this noble effort. show the pictures of all of that carnage, show the pictures of those mothers grieving over their dead sons. and then put the word noble up next to putin s picture. that tells you why it s really
Important for all of us to go back and read orr orwell s innovate 1984 where you have the creation of a truth ministry, and that s what s happening here, and that s why the morale has been impacted. the soldiers redeployed, those who have survived, we ll see what happens when they jump in their personnel carriers and they see some of these switchblade drone aircraft and killing them at will. i think that s going to have an even bigger impact, plus the fact when the word gets out that one of their major flagships has been sunk in an attack by a missile fired by the ukrainians, i think that the morale problem is going to increase. it doesn t leave much of an off ramp for president putin. i don t think he thought he would have to have one. there are some that want to give him one at this point. and i think at this point president zelenskyy has said on multiple occasions from the very