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today ukraine battles its way into a second year of war defying russian expectations and denying moscow the swift victory it expected. this was the view one year ago yesterday as russian tanks rolled into ukraine launching its unprovoked war. to mark the anniversary, western allies bathed their landmarks in the colors of ukraine's flag and more importantly pledging more financial support. the u.s. has announced a $2 billion package. 8 million ukrainians have fled their country. of those who remain, 18 million are in dire need of assistance. that's nearly 40% of the population. let's ...

Take that country and move it from a semi-free communist state to a more ironclad member of the wa warsaw pact back in those days. that was history. the fact of the matter is the ukrainians have a very different fighting ethos. they learned a lot from the 2014 russian invasion of crimea in the donbas region. >> absolutely. >> completely different command structure and that makes a big, big difference. >> absolutely. all right. colonel leighton, thank you so much. appreciate the insights as always. good talking to you. >> you bet, jim. good to be with you. >> good to be with you. from the day...

Every time we bring a recruit to the military, we expect them to conform to military culture, culture formed over two centuries of combat experience. we never expect our culture has to change to ark comidate the individual. that is military service. >> todd: i understand that is your main point, cohesiveness argument. i will push back slightly. do you feel the military is under prepared because of focus on what i will call a distraction? >> i continuing is distraction, if i send two million people to training, four or six million manhours, can we just teach grit again, fighting ethos, instead ...