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Alliance? >> we bring one of the best and strongest armies in europe. and we make the numbers as we spend more than 2% for the defense. we are increasing our investments. i think you dont even have to take my word, you can ask 234eu any real expert, they know finnish armed forces are capable. we would bring a lot of more capability and a lot of stability in europe. brian: this war with ukraine. you said the brutality does not surprise you. and you dont see vladimir putin giving up even though he...

Conflicts in europe. that also, michael, sends a signal to some of the other nations in nato, such as poland, estonia, latvia, lithuania, who all have russian speakers, and russia has said in the past that it is there to protect all russian speakers throughout europe. so, it sends a message there across the board, but getting back to your original question, does russia have the capability to do this -- you know, from a military perspective, not in your life. you know, even with the so-called 85 ...

One has to be very respectful of the russian armed forces capability they have not done so well so far that made lots of mistakes, but you have to remember that phrase quantity has a quality all of its own. they have got a lot of heavy equipment of tanks and things like that the battle in the east of ukraine. so far its not working all hes done is brought nato closer to russias own borders and he has united ukraine pretty has united ukraine against russia instead of having a cooperative neighbor...

Being conservative estimates the total losses of the russians at about 25%. that is significant because in the american doctrine once you lose a third of your force you become combat in effective. we dont say youre desupplied but you were no longer accomplished to mission that you were designed to do. they are not reconstituting a force because reconstituting is youre getting back to the capability that you had before. i dont think they have the capability to get back to even sort of the low-per...

Alliance? >> we bring one of the best and strongest armies in europe. and we make the numbers as we spend more than 2% for the defense. we are increasing our investments. i think you dont even have to take my word, you can ask 234eu any real expert, they know finnish armed forces are capable. we would bring a lot of more capability and a lot of stability in europe. brian: this war with ukraine. you said the brutality does not surprise you. and you dont see vladimir putin giving up even though he...

Reporting from the key independ, russias losses include 21,800 troops, 2200 armored personnel carriers, 873 tanks, 179 planes and the list goes on. this, of course, does not include russias battle chip and, of course, it does not account for all of the innocent ukrainian civilians killed by putins assault. general, can this war be won on the battlefield? >> i think very definitely the ukrainians are going to be -- they will have the capability but this will not be easy, it will not be quick to c...

Russian forces, everything from those staggering losses to losing their flagship in the black sea cannot be discounted. when you take a look at upcoming battles like the steel complex there, those are very trying on individual soldiers because its very tough urban fighting and if you have low morale, low cohesion and poor commander control, that is not going to be an easy fight for the russians. arthel: i want to end by asking you this, once the war ends, what lessons would have been learned and...

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Counter to what weve seen already, it runs counter to reality. the amount of force that russia has outside the boundaries of ukraine right now as well as the force inside, were talking about anywhere from 90,000 to 120,000 forces. with that amount of force, youre talking about ukraine, which almost has a 1-1 ratio in terms of fighting forces with russia. we have seen on the downside in the russian forces, poor leadership, poor supply opportunities. the generalship of their military has not been ...

Now theyre reamassing troops in the east. what does that tell you of where things stand? >> well, as an analyst you wake up and scratch your head saying they have so much capability, but they keep deploying it in a singular fashion and not synchronizing any of their fires or combat power. we keep expecting them to do this. i think the better world war ii analogy right now is trying to fight a two-front war and the fact they cant control the east. they dont control that area along the coastline j...