with more of this, we joined now by philip breedlove, who is a former nato supreme allied combined to europe and come on to all of us european command. it joins us from santa rosa beach, florida in the united states. thank you very much for joining us here. one l just 0 . so you're probably one of the best place people in the world to answer this question. uh, how much impact will this pulls in intelligent sharing by the united states actually have when it comes to the battlefield. you crime or well, 1st of all, thanks for having me on and it will have a severe impact. what the result of this will be is that more ukrainian soldiers and more ukranian civilians will die. the ukraine needs to be able to defend itself . it needs to be able to strike back at the nation that as in may, did it, and struck it for over 11 years now. and so these, these limitations couldn't be more poorly time. here we are about to enter into negotiations. and what we're going to do is give russia advantage to try to change the facts on the grounds, approaching the negotiation. what do you make a bed? obviously

we also have with us philip breedlove, senior commander in europe and is now distinguished prof. at the affairs at georgia tech. and next i have with me fiona hill who is our senior fellow , former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for european and russian security affairs . she's also cfo and we have with us alina polyakova with the center for european policy analysis. let me start straightahead with a couple of questions to you speaking on the record and we will have enough comments also from the audience. we ask have a big set of issues ahead so we will start with you only because you published a piece in foreign affairs december 31, just in time for the new year where you argued the trump administration should pursue a maximum pressure strategy towards russia and does this seem to some extent in the first week of the administration that your advice was heard. the maximum strategy pressure continues but there are also this applies to ukraine to come to the negotiation table so what has changed from your perspective and how do you read the current strategy.