Yeah

... which is of course a disaster.

And we're so dependent on, you know, these aircraft to deliver things, we don't have long range strike missiles.

You know, it's not like the, uh, old Soviet force structure or even now Russia's force structure where they have literally, uh, they used to call them rocket artillery brigades, rocket artillery groups.

Uh, they, they do now have TBM groups with rocket artillery, all the, the mixes of all the various, uh, theater and tactical ballistic missiles, so forth.

We don't have anything like that.

Now, I guess we put the, uh, PRS, uh, the Precision Rocket System, which is new, into the old HIMARS delivery system, but it's a pin prick.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Now, what was the outcome? Well, it was failure.

Was it a failure because of anything that Wehrmacht did? No, absolutely not.No one could have fought harder and more effectively than the average German soldier or the people commanding them.

Now, there were mistakes, but I'm just saying on the whole, you couldn't have asked for better.

Well, what about us? What are we doing in the Indian Ocean in the Persian Gulf? We're not designed to crack open the Persian Gulf any more than the British Army was designed and the British Navy to crack open the Dardanelles in 1915.

They tried for nine months with over a half a million troops.

It failed.

Yeah.

If you're negotiating with two other world leaders and this side tries to kill this side's leader while you're the guy in the middle negotiating peace, shouldn't he know that?

Yeah, well, I think so.

Then there's one last point that everybody seems to miss.

And that is that we are not an objective bystander.

We're a co-belligerent.

We started the war in Ukraine.

We're the ones that installed through a coup an anti-Moscow, anti-Russian government in Kiev in 2014.

right? They scare us that way.

Because a great trip starts with peace of mind.

No, I think that's a good idea.

I think President Trump has really had his hands full with Ukrainians.

You'll recall that horrible demonstration in the Oval Office, which should never have happened, with this little man who comes in in costume and then tries to upstage the president.

Then the president restored aid to Ukraine, which I don't think was a good idea, but he did it.

And then subsequently he talked personally to President Putin despite that aid and said that he would like a ceasefire.

And the two of them came to agreement on a ceasefire that would spare energy infrastructure, which is very important for the Ukrainians at this stage.

Your assessment?