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Have are manpower and material and morale. on manpower, they are trying to get, you know, they have to go to wagner because their draft is struggling. they have had to draft russians into the army and the russian men are not interested in fighting this war. so they are fleeing the country. on the manpower side, they have to look to wagner. on material, yeah, they are going to where? north korea. they are going to iran because the rest of the world, even the chinese, are fearful of providing weap...

Defeats this fall alone in areas that they had the russian military under putin declared victory we saw a russian retreat. im referring to kharkiv and to kherson. these were big losses just a few months ago. so they need a bigger military, but whether they can have it, i think, is a really open question. rich: and this also goes to the question of can they quip more troops. -- e give more -- equip more troops. theyve had massive problems with that already, right? >> they have. and i failed to me...

Within morale of the force. as if somewhat didnt have enough morale problems, this is going to generate more. they dont know who to trust, and theyre not getting the right kind of recruit. mr. putin also said yesterday that hes made major mistakes in terms of recruiting forces. hes recruited married men, older men, men with health problems. well, gee whiz, thats -- that hits the big three. and when youre talking about getting a lot of forces to the battlefield, my guess is it is not going to wor...

Ukrainians have that significantly, but the russians do not. look it, this is an authoritarian regime that took no counsel for some of what they were doing. some thought they were going on a training exercise at the outset of this. and many of them, they put them right into the fight right out of basic training and a lot of them were clearly not prepared for anything on a scale for youve seen. theyve seen the tactical leaders and people saying go here, go there. theyve seen their tactical leader...

It very tentative to take part in more operations in the future. and finally, jim, what id say is as you well know, youve been with soldiers a lot, you know that war is mostly an issue of morale and will. the russian army has already been assessed to have terrible morale for a variety of reasons. their leaders have been killed, poor support for the troops, confusion as to the mission. so these attacks will further cause morale problems for the russian army while improving the ukrainian morale be...

Its ukraine offensive beyond its current form. i think theres an excellent chance that excellent chance that well see an increase in the number of cruise missiles and other high—technology missile attacks on soft targets in ukraine. that seemingly is something theyre very enamoured with, and sadly, i think we will continue to view that on a daily basis. but when you get to the real aspects of increasing your offensive capability — say, taking over air control in the skies of ukraine — they...

Missile attacks on soft targets in the ukraine. that seemingly something they are very enamoured with and sadly, i think they will continue to view that on a daily basis. but when you get it to the real aspects of increasing your offensive capability, say taking over air control and the skies of ukraine, they have failed so far. taking over the northern part of the black sea around 0desa, they failed miserably at that. their logistics issues seem to continue, the command control issues continue,...

Of cruise missiles and other high—technology missile attacks on soft targets in ukraine. that seemingly is something they are very enamoured with, and sadly i think will continue to view that on a daily basis. but when you get to the real aspects of increasing your offensive capability, say taking over air control in the skies of ukraine, they have failed so far. taking over the northern part of the black sea around odesa, they have failed miserably at that. their logistics issues seem to cont...

Than what had been the conventional wisdom is just cede that to russia and that will be enough. do ukrainian forces have the ability not just to hold off russian advances but to take back territory that had already been gained? >> were starting to see the ukrainians develop operational momentum, which means it is possible theyre going to be able to take the fight back into areas russians have seized and are attempting to annex. nothing is certain in this war and ukraine still needs a lot of west...

Those forces in along three lines of axis, and started killing innocent civilians and bombing cities and towns throughout ukraine, hes already declared war. some experts will say this might give him a little bit more flexibility in terms of calling up reserves, but frankly he can do that anyway. and he already has. there is a whole new batch of conscripts, young 17, 18-year-olds with very little training that hes now flung into the fight and were already seeing that many of them are having moral...