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as we saw Russia's military is making
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advances in Ukraine but has suffered
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significant casualties since invading
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two weeks ago for more I want to bring
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in Jason Beardsley Jason is a national
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security expert and national executive
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director at the association of the U.S
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Navy he's also a former Green Beret
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Jason it's great to have you as you know
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Russia's military is significantly
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larger than Ukraine's but still these
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casualties are staggering
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how might the impact morale of Russian
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troops
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uh thank you for having me it impacts
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the morale tremendously and I think
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David Martin laid out a great case in 20
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years in Iraq you know we we lost uh six
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seven thousand or so and here they are
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at about six and it's probably higher
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than that this is really ripped through
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the Russian army the morale there is low
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there's a lot of conscripts that were in
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this engagement without knowing they
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were going to war uh those are the
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reports on the ground they appear to be
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true in addition to that we can tell by
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the Readiness of the machines the
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equipment the vehicles they were not
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prepared for this they're they're
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finding themselves without gasoline
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without food without you know comfort
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and Aid and enemy territory and the
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ukrainians have been used to fighting
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bear in mind for since 2014 the
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ukrainians have rotated uh their
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soldiers back and forth to the Don boss
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region so they've got real world
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experience with the Russians this is
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making uh the Russians look like they
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gambled and the gamble looks like a loss
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Jason you know putting this into
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perspective then how much do you believe
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Vladimir Putin is willing to lose to
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ultimately win this war
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well that is a great question from
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Vladimir Putin's optic it looks like he
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was always interested in a shock and awe
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campaign that would scare zelinski and
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Company out of the country and then he
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could install a puppet regime what I
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think he's willing to do is kind of
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negotiate his way at the end of this
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back to control of the Don bass that's
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the Eastern Province region so he's got
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that land bridge connection to Crimea I
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think that's what his chief objective
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here is uh but I think he got a little
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bit uh in front of his skis on this one
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and now he's got to convince the Duma
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around him in the Kremlin uh that this
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is worth staying in the fight that's why
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you're seeing these desperation moves in
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cities like Mario bowl or down as
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they're headed towards mikalayev and
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kharkiv and places like that these are
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desperation attempts the Army has
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stalled out it's winter time the tanks
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are bogged down in the mud ukrainians
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have put up a fierce fight and uh look
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for that to continue speaking of
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strategy Russia has also been ramping up
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attacks on crucial Port City cities in
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Ukraine can you walk us through and
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elaborate more on the strategy by Russia
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there
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right yeah that's a great question so
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along the southern Rim there you've got
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a number of cities that control uh ports
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so bringing in supplies and material
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Goods Odessa is the next one caresan was
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on the uh the Water there they owned the
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Crimean uh Peninsula that sits out in
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the Black Sea so for them to split their
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forces now and to take out Odessa is
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going to actually reduce the number of
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combat forces that they can Flex to the
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north along the upper river headed
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towards zaparizia and kharkiv in other
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words they have a decision to make to
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split their forces and go left and right
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east and west or maintain their forces
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and try to take out Odessa with the
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hopes of choking off any of Ukraine
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Naval supplies but bear this in mind the
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ukrainians are not resupplying
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themselves from the water so this is not
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necessarily an effective move in a
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campaign that's relying on resupply
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lines from Poland while also relying on
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Battlefield recovery that's when the
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Russian equipment goes into the hands of
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ukrainians and the Ukraine unions turn
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that around on the Russian so the port
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it's somewhat important but the the
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ukrainians are not relying on that in
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this war right now
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as we heard Jason and David Martin's
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piece the ukrainians are making good use
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of anti-tank weapons they're also
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fighting on home turf what else is
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working well for them
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so those two are huge favors for them
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I've talked about the three to one ratio
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sometimes it's five to one if you're a
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Defender Defending Your Homeland and you
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have uh one to every third of theirs
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you're going to put up a great fight so
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their numbers are in their favor the
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terrain as you point out the weather but
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mostly what's happening in their favors
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the Russian army is not good at this and
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I want to point out something you don't
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hear a lot about Vladimir Putin is a KGB
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agent he's used to deception operations
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and clandestine operations and strike
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This Is War this is open War he is not a
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general he has no military experience
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the Russians the most experienced
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they've got is in places like Syria
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those are small War operations so they
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are not good at this and by the way
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nobody's been good at this since World
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War II taking a city is not easy and
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when we did it last Baghdad Kabul
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Mogadishu we ourselves the United States
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Americans found ourselves at the
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vulnerabilities of the insurgencies
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guerrilla warfare IED campaign sniper
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attacks so this means all the advantages
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go to the the folks in defense that's
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the ukrainians all right Jason Beardsley
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put it into perspective for us thank you
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so much for your time
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thanks
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