About a week into Ukraine's counteroffensive, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia spoke with military expert and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy Ian Brzezinski about what we should expect moving forward. While Brzezinski said whether or not Ukraine's recent success will be a turning point is "yet to be seen," it has displayed the Russian Armed Forces' lack of discipline, training, and commitment to the fight. Nevertheless, Brzezinski suggests the "fundamentals" of the war are still in Russia's favor. Not only is Ukraine's economy retracting by a much larger margin than is Russia's, but Zelenskyy is also selective in the way he directs Ukraine's military action. Putin, rather, has abided by a "terror to the max" strategy, wreaking as much havoc necessary to break the Ukrainian people. The co-hosts and Brzezinski ponder several courses of action the West can now take.