George Barros

Yeah, it's good.

It's a good, broad place to start.

So, look, let's start with the facts.

The facts for 2025 is that the Russians seized not more than 1% of Ukraine's territory.

They've actually seized less than 1% of Ukraine's territory.

I suppose the crowning operational achievement of the Russians on the battlefield in the theater for all of this year was the seizure of Poprovsk, or the near seizure of Poprovsk.

There's still some tactical fighting happening on its outskirts.

But this is not something that the Russians achieved in the last six months or nine months.

They had been working on seizing Pokrovsk since April of 2024.

So this was, you know, the 20-month campaign to advance literally 20 miles to seize Pokrovsk.

Ukraine's 74th most populous town, a town of formally of 60,000 people.

And that was sort of the crowning Russian achievement.

And it was the basis of that seizure that the Russians tried to convince the White House and the whole world that the front lines are collapsing, that Ukraine is on the edge of military catastrophe.

And because the Russians are advancing at this very slow rate, we have to cajole them to this sort of...

the ceasefire and conflict termination agreement.

And then there was attached to it the deadline for, hey, sign this Ukraine by Thanksgiving or you're screwed.

We successfully evaded that.

And now it's sort of a sign this by Christmas or sign this by New Year's or you're screwed sort of thing.

So hopefully we can avoid that.

But the good news is, is that