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Joining me again, Admiral Mike Martin, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mike, so let me put it to you first. Can this counteroffensive really work? And more broadly, the Ukrainian army is still outnumbered, 10 to 1 by the Russian army. The Ukrainian Russians have much larger defense budget. Can Ukraine actually win this? Well, I think that the Ukrainian Russians have much larger defense

budget. Well, I think that our allies, NATO and the United States in particular, have to keep providing the kind of arms we have at a rate that will allow the Ukrainians to continue to oppose and sustain the kind of counteroffensive that you're talking about. That firms of willingness to suffer just think it's going to take a long, long time to do that. And then that gets

U.S. Navy do something to unlock Odessa? Well, I think it's a decision for President Biden. And honestly, I've been mystified that we haven't put U.S. Navy ships up into the Black Sea to create the kind of quarter that you're speaking of. And that has been mentioned before by other individuals who serve. It is doable. The worry that I have is the longer we delay that, the

harder it's going to be. Those who operate at sea, both on the Russian and the U.S. side, understand that environment and contract or different from the use of quote unquote potential use of nuclear weapons. There's nothing that's going to happen at sea that's going to turn this into World War III specifically. And you now see the human carnage associated with it. And I think the U.S.

and our allies quite frankly have to do a lot more to control the Black Sea and control that is in the Black Sea lane so that we can get that grain and those experts out to so many needy countries who were on the edge of food insecurity when this war started. And now are deeply into it, probably much more deeply than we really understand. Well, I

think that honestly I've been mystified.