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. yeah, it really is interesting what's going on now gripping faced with an impressive resistance from ukraine's military over the past four weeks, russia's combat power now reported to have fallen below 90% since launching its invasion. russia has exhausted a good portion of its bombs and missiles according to u.s. officials. tanks and other ground weapons clearly being destroyed while nearly 10,000 russian soldiers have been killed, according to some estimates with another 16000 wounded. they have over time built up a significant amount of combat capability to conduct this operation. this wa...

Of the forces. but really the thing is, anderson, right now we're in a logistics battle. the ukrainians had inferior combat capability to begin with. we gave them from our own stocks some key defensive systems, the javelins and the stingers, and they've been highly effective. but in the coming phases of the battle, that's not going to be enough. they're going to need heavy artillery. they're going to need the ammunition for it. they're going to need armored fighting vehicles and some tanks so that they can compete on a more equal basis with the russian forces that are going to be coming in the...

Kyiv. he's still going after kharkiv, and those forces are being recons reconstituted. they're being rearmed. some of them have been pulled back in belarus to reorganize. they'll be back. we've got a period of maybe two to four, five weeks before those forces are reorganized and back into the fight, and it's a critical period for ukraine. we've got to get them more combat capability. they need more weapons systems. >> what is your assessment of ukrainian forces' gains and losses in the last 24 hours or so? the mayor of mariupol said the city was in the hands of the occupiers, but the ukrainian...

Morale, you name it. they faced a much different ukrainian resistance than they anticipated doing. well-trained and well equipped and remains that way. they have had a lot of problems, we have noticed that, the world noticed that. but they have a lot of combat capability available. they vastly outnumber the ukrainian armed forces, lots of missiles, planes, tanks, lots of ways to wreak havoc and destruction on the ukrainian people. and even though they are stalled on the ground, every day they are conducting airstrikes, causing damage to civilian infrastructure, and killing innocent civilians. ...

Forces and the importance of afghanistan to western geostrategic interests, the afghans have convinced themselves that we will never go, that the international community, the americans, in particular would never leave, take their ground troops away, take their combat capability away. they convince themselves of that and they have had over 18 months since the trump administration signed the agreement with the taliban in february of 2020 saying that we will leave in may 2021, they have had over 18 months to stockpile food, to stockpile weapons and ammunition and to prepare themselves with the st...