I'm not going to say how long it's going to take for Ukraine to win.
But Ukraine is going to win. It might be months, it might be up until next
year. But the truth of the matter is, is that the Russians are weak on every front.
Putin misread Ukraine, misread his own strengths and the strengths of the Russian army,
misread the world's situation in terms of what he would be able to bully Western Europe to do,
misread the resolve of the United States and misread the quality over
quantity question. Putin as a general has turned out to be a total flop.
Now that Western Arms are being delivered to Ukraine, both artillery and multiple rocket
launchers like the HIMARS, the truth is that Ukraine is able to do things with smaller numbers
than Russia has not been able to do with its numerical superiority. That's going to be the main
lesson of this war. And it's also going to be the way in which Ukraine is going to ultimately win.
And what we've really learned is how important quality is over quantity.
We've certainly learned from the Ukraine war that David can prevail over Goliath. I mean,
this is really an example that will be extrapolated for countries like Taiwan.
The reality is that territorial defense works.
We credit Russia, with being this vast cyber power, with all sorts of ability
to influence and manipulate, the reality is that they really haven't made much headway
in terms of influencing the West. Ukraine has been mounting its own
propaganda effort in this war. And though it might be for good, we are still being manipulated into
thinking that Ukraine is always on the brink of disaster, that Russia is always about to
win. But the truth of the matter is, it is a propaganda effort. And we're not seeing the clear,
big picture of the battlefield as a result of Zelensky's magnificent performance in this war.
NATO at this point is talking about beefing up its ground forces, obviously spending lots
more money on defense. But really, we haven't examined what that money should go for yet.
Maybe the reality of Ukraine war is that long range precision weapons are ultimately what is
going to defend a piece of ground that ultimately weapons like HIMARS and long
range artillery and missiles are going to be more valuable than boots on the ground.
The nuclear option is merely a shock, or a demonstration of some sort of political will,
or it's merely a deterrent. But even as a deterrent, we have to ask ourselves in the future,
whether nuclear weapons are relevant, NATO's nuclear weapons didn't stop
Russia from invading Western Europe, Russia's nuclear weapons didn't help it to win this
war. The fact of the matter is, is that they are so unusable, Even in the hands of Putin.
If we should learn one lesson of the Ukraine war is that war, it's
really hard. That even with numerical superiority, Russia has not been able to take over Ukraine.
This is going to persist for months, if not even years before we see a final resolution.