I'm John Batscher with Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution.

Two wars, one, a third war threatened in East Asia, Ukraine war. The word stalemate was used by the general

commanding the Ukrainian forces. Mr. Zelenski refuted it within 24 hours saying we're not

stalemated. It's a definition and not a determination here but it does appear that the third winter of war ahead

of us and Ukraine needs everything and needs support it needs membership in the EU it needs to be rebuilt. It certainly needs American assistance on the front line.

And there are voices in America right now reluctant to go forward.

Victor, what do you see is the worst possible outcome if Ukraine collapses?

And that is credible.

Well, I think it would be the absorption into the Russian Federation,

lock, stock, and barrel. I think they made a critical misjudgment probably under pressure

by the United States and Europe. In the spring and summer, we were told that there was going to be this massive counter-offensive

and that it was going to burst through this sort of marginal line that was four or five hundred miles long

That the Russians had created and the Russians got smart.

They realized on the offensive they're inept, but along the border with Mother

Russia is the calling card right near the border that a country that has a quarter of the population

would not have the manpower power wherewithal to blast through fortified lines that are almost

a mile fix some places.

And of course Ukraine's problem was always not equipment so much as manpower.

They lost a quarter of their population as refugees.

They've got problems with corruption that involves recruitment, selectivity, etc.

So they should have been sparing of their manpower and double down and then negotiated on the

fate of Crimea, the domedias and see if they could get Putin back to the February

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