could Ukraine negotiate an end to the war with Russia and what does Crimea have to do with it and what do smart bombs have to do with that let's talk about that and more keep in mind link down below is a coupon code that expires tonight on the programs I'm building your wealth smart bombs going to Ukraine yes uh there this is a real thing the financial times just reported apparently the U.S is set to provide smart bombs uh to Ukraine now keep in mind what we are trying to do as much as possible is uh apparently this is the decision of the American leadership uh and NATO and and the European allies to basically provide more and more and more stuff and weapons to Ukraine to try to take down you Russia and force them into a settlement remember we started providing helmets uh and and initial money to Ukraine Germany for example it was helmets and bulletproof vests other parts of Europe were providing booths that then turned into rounds of ammunition to where Germany was down to a stockpile of ammunition of just 48 hours 48 hours that's all they had left was 48 Hours of uh ammunition uh and uh it and now we've moved on to providing armored personnel carriers uh and tanks which Joe Biden suggested there was no way we were going to send tanks because that would implicate World War III to Ukraine now tanks are being sent to Ukraine now it'll take a few weeks for uh troops to get trained on these both strategically and technically but takes about five to six weeks it'll probably take about three months for the first tanks to actually get to Ukraine but now the financial times is talking about the US the United States is set to provide longer range smart bombs uh to uh Ukraine these are small diameter bombs that would double Ukraine's current strike range as part of another nearly 2.2 billion dollar Aid package to be announced today the smart bombs have a range of 94 miles and we can be fired from several kinds of rocket launchers including High Mars missile defense systems and Ukraine's been asking for longer range missile defense systems however the United States is worried that they would use those to strike deeper into Russian targets although these missiles already allow people or ukrainians to strike deeper however not as deep as the Army tactical missile system which is something Ukraine's been asking for gets you about 185 miles of range now one of the reasons these these smart bombs and sort of this this spending on Ukraine is important is because there's an expectation of potentially Ukraine trying to take back Crimea now that would be a massive massive blow for Russia in fact there's a really good Financial Times piece on exactly this and it briefly talks about what Ukraine needs to liberate Crimea and in essence they've talked about not only is uh Ukraine going to need tanks to liberate Crimea but they're going to need Jets and now this is something that right now Schultz uh is the chancellor of Germany is sort of backpedaling on the idea of even wanting to talk about Jets suggesting hey let's just focus on tanks right now but listen everything Ukraine's been asking for so far they've gotten singers Patriot missile a bass uh javelins you want more weapons you want more money you want armored personnel carriers you want tanks they've gotten everything they've been asking for so it's just a matter of time before they get jets but if they do get the Gen 4 F-16 fighter jets it is potentially likely uh that Ukraine could actually launch a pretty strong offensive uh on on Crimea which uh Russia illegally annexed in 2014. now Russia of course uh was able to pull that off without a prolonged battle at all uh because of the location work uh Crimea is being relatively strategic for Russia to not only Supply materials but uh is that essentially more weapons and troops to continue the fight within actually uh Ukraine I think it's worth taking a brief look at the map just to sort of understand the Tactical Battlefield a little bit here Crimean Peninsula is over here if Ukraine were to take Crimea uh it would really potentially block Russia off uh of of the Seas Azad over here uh where where they're essentially supplying materials uh and weapons to Crimea to launch attacks from the southern regions of Ukraine and this would really allow Ukraine to not only seal Russia off of Crimea if they were able to take this and actually have a naval chance to to prevent uh Russia's uh as much Russian activity in the Black Sea because now you're cutting off the C as azov over here so you've got to go around uh but what you have is the potential to lock down Curson prevent the attacks on Curson on and really start moving Russia back and prevent the incursion that's happening here into the regions that are expected to potentially be negotiated away to Russia like danesque so Crimea would be pretty pretty strategic uh and the financial times or not the financial times Foreign Affairs magazine has been regularly talking about the the strength of a negotiating power that Ukraine would have if they took Ukraine if they took Crimea even to the point of taking uh Crimea and taking the uh massive massive Naval uh uh facility that Russia has over here at Sebastopol uh it would be such a huge blow to Russia that a lot of folks and Military experts think that Russia would actually be forced into a negotiated uh settlement if the Crimean Peninsula was actually taken over they say here without a land bridge or road or rail links to Crimea the Kremlin would be forced to revert to Maritime resupply of of their troops uh that uh that let's make that very clear an easy way to get troops and supplies into Ukraine right now is right here through Russia through Crimea and then into the Curson area but again if if this is held by Ukraine it's always Crimea that's blocked off now you want to resupply here you're either going through the front lines which is difficult or you're going over the sea but now Ukraine potentially has a a military a naval access uh to the Sea as well potentially limiting exactly that sort of resupply it's a great way to potentially choke off Russia's activity now uh the expectation is Ukrainian forces would need to carry out weeks of strikes uh onto targets including logistic hubs air bases command and Control Center and this Naval installation installations it would take a lot of work but the the uh foreign affairs magazine believes that it could actually be pulled off as long as uh more tanks and ultimately Jets get supplied to Ukraine so the Ford Affairs mag they're big fans of continuing this sort of supplying now the problem is the more and this is where they do suggest uh there are some risks the problem is if Ukraine takes Crimea there's a belief that it would take it would be such a huge blow in in fighting Russia that potentially Russia would be incentivized to maybe carry out its first nuclear its strategic and tactical strikes against Crimea because it's a peninsula it's it's almost an island you could say it's we're technically a peninsula because it's it's attached over here but it's not like a Florida Peninsula it looks like an island uh and and so there's a belief that this is so strategically important to Russia that if Russia loses this it could potentially be where uh the the first nuclear uh strategic strikes are attempted of course this would uh would would lead to a lot of uh potential talk about world war three and this is why there are a lot of people saying look no no just just stop stop supplying weapons stop supplying uh uh Ukraine stop funding Ukraine we don't we don't want to push Russia to the edge of considering nuclear strikes of course this is possibly also one of the strongest positions that Ukraine could end up having for negotiating a settlement uh with uh Russia so we'll see who knows but this is uh this is something to be be paying attention to so if you're watching the Ukraine war and the Takeover of the Crimean Peninsula could be uh strategically the the best uh move for Ukraine but they're going to need a lot more support and so far it looks like the EU NATO and the United States are willing to provide that especially since now we're talking about smart bombs uh being sent to Ukraine by the financial times reporting that 2.2 billion dollar Aid package expected to be announced today.