but what cannot be counted in those kinds of statistics is any possible asymmetric advantage the ukrainians would have. russians would be fighting on their own territory in the ukrainians' own territory so that gives ukrainians some advantage in that sense. plus there's really this idea that the ukrainians will want to fight for their freedom. and i think in this particular case after they saw what happened in 2014, they know that the stakes are much higher now and i think the result would be a bit different for the russians. the russians could still prevail but there's historical precedent for a small force to actually become a larger force. you're right, david versus goliath scenario could definitely occur here. >> we know the u.s. is sending more tanks to poland, a regional ally. and one of the goals of putin all along has been to weaken the european nations in the area, to