Few people are better qualified than General Philip Breedlove (US) and General Sir Richard Shirreff (UK) to assess the military and geopolitical situation in the Russo-Ukrainian War. At the time of Putin’s last incursion in 2014, resulting in the illegal seizure and occupation of Crimea, and of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine – Breedlove and Shirreff held, respectively, the Supreme and Deputy Supreme allied command of Nato in Europe.