This is John Batchel. I welcome my colleague, Lieutenant Colonel Tim Wilson, United Kingdom

Military, retired. To comment on, is the UK ready to send troops to Ukraine to guarantee the peace?

Tim's answer is both complex and straightforward and simple to understand.

No, but there are details.

Here's Tim to comment on cut to the bone.

More of this tonight.

Yes, but it will be a very small number.

They have cut back so far and cut back on training and what have you that they're going to have to do some very rapid very intense training with those troops and that will cost money and they're

going to have to replenish stocks including weapons and ammunition and to do that they're going to

have to rob other units that have other

jobs. And I guess the one way they can find the funding for this will be to cut back further on

training for most of the units and the reserves. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, time, time and again throughout my military career and since.

And how many times can you cut to the bone before somebody falls over?