here's frank ludwig, a former military intelligence officer. well, terry, the 1st thing they said is, this is in a traditional battle where russia may make small gains and indeed we're seeing mac and nibbling away your credit lines in one or 2 of the more vulnerable areas. are you currently in the credit position that they're going to, to lose this battle? they have started this operation to early, no competent military force would have taken 2 weeks to try and research from a major defeated or the russians did. which indicates 2 things. first going to political pressure, and secondly, the trying to out race, nato supplies to ukraine, the heavy weapons helene, that was talking about russia faced huge problems and 30 percent casualty. so for not enough mass. they really haven't experienced this kind of operation. so my assessment is they remain in serious trouble. so you doubt that russia will ultimately take down barracks, despite russia's military superiority, because it does have more firepower than ukraine. does it? not? that's all it. there