One of the hardest jobs i had as a 26-year-old lieutenant commanding a platoon of marines to explain to them why they had to risk their lives for a conflict they didn t believe in. a lot of them had questions. you have to imagine that these young russian troops have a lot of questions about what s going on here. at least my marines knew what they were doing. many of these russian troopsdy lutded to think they were going on a training mission and then in a brutal war against people, ukrainian people, in many cases they know, they share relatives and friends with. morale is going to be a big factor here and russian troops will have the morale further hit by seeing a russian warship, a flagship no less, sunk in the black sea. it is a very powerful moment in