states were from on the let's cross live now to form a pentagon security policy analyst, michael mal of michael. welcome to the international now versus presidents has claimed that western weapons applied to ukraine will only drive out the conflicts. the western union says it wants to push a button and give you clean a stronger position at the negotiating table. what are your thoughts? well i think generally 20 is absolutely correct the as this war continues on it's, it's turning into a, into a slug fest m m m in which the ukrainians are losing dramatically even though the russians are 2. but the ukrainians have far fewer troops. and as it and as this said progresses the, it's going to work more and more to the advantage of the russians because of the fire power that they can bring bring in with from tanks artillery. and this means that the ukrainians over time are gonna be diminishing in, in terms of their capability that they, the problem is a said zalinski as stated that he is, he wants to take back all the territory that was taken by the russians. well, they don't have the ability to do tha