let's speak now to michael maloof, former senior security policy analyst at the us defense department, and michael, what impact would halting us military or aid to crane have on their battlefield capabilities? i figure, i think it would be almost immediate. uh the, uh, the problem. the problem for ukraine is that they just don't. uh, they, they've relied on the united states or so long. europeans are having a hard time in getting it up. it's gonna take them, it will take the considerable waste of time to rev up to get all of the i get get the industry underway and i just think that they just couldn't make it without us assistance. and then that, as of course, looks like it's not for me happens, right. you said that the impact will be immediate, but there are some reports suggesting to ukrainian military could keep fighting for months without further u. s. military aid. where are those projections coming from? as well, they have, they have some residuals left over. they have uh, probably have stores and uh its storage. and uh, i think that uh, it wouldn't last very long as a, they woul

we spoke to former defend security policy analyst, michael maloof, who says the ukrainian armies, capabilities are miserable without washington or their ability to uh, to uh they they to, to try and hold onto their equipment is, is very, very difficult. they go through their equipment like crazy. i would say the, i'm ours, have been very effective. and certainly the tanks have not been resist the wrong. the equipment artillery 155 millimeter artillery shells. that's the smaller stuff is. and the immunization those that, that has allowed into and, and, and, and the, the, the, the various imbeciles that they, that they're able to use the drawings that they've been able to use. there's also the question whether they're star links will also be a will also be yes stuff. and that has allowed for very effective communication. so they've gotten communication capabilities and intelligence that they wouldn't have had otherwise. and the europeans been supplied. but the united states did so all of that could go away and then that will really bring the war to a to a grinding halt. very, very rapidly. i thi