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The ukrainian air force is putting up a great fight as well. they are doing a much better job than i anticipated, and i'll summarize, you know, the way i see this. i thought ukraine -- the ukraine army and their territorial forces were going to do very well. they've done much better than i anticipated they would. i thought the russians were going to suck. they suck even more than i anticipated. they are not doing well at all. they just had another commander killed today, a two-star general, the head of the 29th combined armed army. that tells me they're trying to get their leadership to the fr...

Desertion rates. you saw the crowds yesterday, many of the soldiers have loved ones in those crowds. they go home to wives, mothers, fathers, siblings, who during the day are protesting. they're not getting special benefits. they're in the military because it gives them a job and protects them at some level but the chain of command is deeply compromised. they're the people, the mid-level officers, that we should be focused on. they're sworn to uphold the constitution of venezuela and under that constitution, the interim president is the president of the national assembly. >> should we consider...

This army's morale began to systemically break down for the last three years because of ineffective leaders. he puts his cronies and hacks in there. and quite alarming, they have 14 divisions. they number somewhere around 200,000. they outnumber these guys 25 to 1. >> but it's hollow now. >> it's hollowed out. it's kind of like a house with termites that have been at it for years. you look at the house and it looks good, but the fact of the matter is, if you push on it hard it collapses. ed the troop levels, when the isis approached them, the levels were around 50% because of the high desertio...