you discussed skepticism about the russian reinforcements. is there a sense of the mercenaries, how many have come from syria and other places and what happened to the troops from belarus that were supposed to join the fight? that s a consistent thing. the russian people don t want this fight, the russian military don t want it. we are talking about 1,000, 2,000, maybe 3,000 mercenaries. that will not shift the balance here in terms of this battle. they re also not always equipped with russian armor, the most sophisticated weapons. you are talking about diss mounted forces. chechen units are doing some of the shock work in mariupol. these forces are not coming in and fighting the way russia really wants them to do. they don t really want to be here, they re doing it basically for money. compare it to the motivation of ukrainians, it is a different story. thank you so much, clint watts. willie, if it were a mop-up operation that would be one thing. if you are a syria, what do you