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It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. Yeah, so today we are talking about Ukraine and with two people who actually think that Ukraine could win, which right now is it's

sounding more and more like a minority view.

So Mike Ryan, Rose, Gutmiller, which one of you want to sort of just take us through the article?

As we're taking stock of where things stand with the war in Ukraine, the maps that have gone up on new shows all over the United States have shown that really the line hasn't moved, that the

much vaunted counter-offensive

that the Ukrainians undertook last summer

has failed to achieve much in the way of territorial gains.

And so there's no question that the war is stalemated. But to me, what people haven't

been paying attention to is the really significant success that the Ukrainians have achieved in places where they have had

some maneuverability at sea and in the air.

And they have essentially been able to deny the Russians the use of Sevastopol, the military

naval base on the peninsula of Crimea that that was the reason they invaded in 2014, right?

They wanted Crimea to be theirs

and so that they could use the naval base

without any regard for Ukraine or certainly

having to pay Ukraine any rent for it. So now they are actually denied use of bases all across Crimea by

the way the Ukrainians have been very clever using both their power at sea but also their air power

and indigenous missile capability and also missile capability that they're acquiring from

NATO allies.

So there's been the significant success in control of airspace and

control at sea, but people aren't taking account of that. So Mike and I started

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