George Barros

Look, the Russians are currently saying we're going to take all this stuff in Ukraine, even though that we're advancing at 10 meters or less than 10 meters a day.

And it took us 20 months to move 20 miles.

We're going to keep doing this slog.

If you change that to you're going to spend 20 months to move 20 feet.

I think that becomes a much more difficult proposition.

And actually, you have a much more compelling case for a theory of victory.

By the way, the big problem with this is that Ukraine is entirely dependent on international backing.

I mean, there isn't a stable equilibrium right now because Putin's whole theory is, I just got to wait out this fickle alliance of Western countries.

um and in korea and japan and as soon as they lose the political will to keep doing this and see this as a sunk cost fallacy and i trick them into thinking that my victory is inevitable then i get to steve or i get to have everything um and and i think it's important that we do you think he's right do you think he's right

I think he is right.

I think he is right.

Because the center of gravity for the war is the international coalition.

I mean, Ukraine doesn't have a state budget.

They will have weapons.

They'll fight.

I mean, they're not going to collapse overnight.

But Ukraine is so reliant on everything that the international coalition provides them.

And that's not normal.

I mean, that's completely normal for states that are fighting an existential war.

The United States and the American Revolution wouldn't have won the Revolutionary War against Great Britain if it were not for France, right?