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Donbas has lasted eight years, maybe milley is right, this thing goes on for years as well. what do you think? >> general milley said it could take years. it doesn't have to take years. thank god during the entire trump administration we were giving the javelin missiles and training ukrainians how to use them. that's what has given them the fighting chance they've had to keep this conflict alive. i'll be honest. most of us on capitol hill never thought ukraine would still be standing on its feet like they are five and six weeks later after the invasion. we have to continue to provide them the ...

>> well, the big concern again is the encirclement of kyiv. keep in mind that kyiv is larger in square miles than new york city. it's 1,020 square miles, new york is 300. again, this very, very impressive mix of conventional forces, partisan brigades and the resistance is making life very, very difficult. they've even taken the road signs down or they've painted them over and said welcome to hell or something like that. and you see the terrible logistic support of the russians. the bottom line is we're seeing how underresourced in terms of logistical force structure the russians are once they ...

We don't have the force capacity and certainly without many months of build up to have a chance in a conventional fight much less potential for nuclear. the same is true in the east with china and taiwan. because we say a lot of we want to defend them and we want to help them out to make them independent country, but we don't have the force structure to even come close to competing tactically with china who is 10. and if xi wants to come he could probably move at the same time. we can't handle one of these can really pay we certainly couldn't handle both at the same time. that's a concern i do...