doug london is a retired cia operations officer and author. he joins us now. you say what we re seeing are global powers using intelligence as an instrument of power. tell me more, please. absolutely. if you turn the clock back to november, had russia invaded then, i m not so certain that ukraine would be seeing the type of international support that it s received. poland and germany, they had been fairly problematic nato partners, i m not sure if they would have adopted the position they have today. exposing putin s true designs, if you consider that eight years of training and support that the
legally, it s not allowed. i know there are skeptics, but they re not allowed to use it. how dangerous is that? i think it s dangerous when he s been making plans on the type of intelligence which would lead him to make serious mistakes. clearly, his judgment has been flawed. we see the blame game starting, and with the arrest of senior officers. so i think an insecure putin is obviously a dangerous putin. but i also think that his escalation has been tempered by the exposure of his plans, by keeping him on the defensive and keeping him reactive. i think we see some of that today in russian actions on the battlefield. and it s being said that
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fred fred pleitgen was in belgarad. you saw the rocket launching launching from sanctuary, i.e. in russia. nobody shooting at them. shooting mitchells in the direction of ukraine. you have to imagine it s highly protected. and fred indicated it s highly protected. and so from the ukrainians to conduct the operation, number one speaks to the professionalism of the ukrainians if they did. be deep planning, deep strike operations. you have to evade air defenses. you have to jam radaring, et cetera. there is a lot of planning in that. then you have to fly the aircraft at yap of earth following the folds of terrain. blackout conditions. they demonstrated professionalism and competence to for the russians to think they ve been in sanctuary. that s broken. you re no longer safe. yeah, yeah.
forces multireports of low morale among russian troops, sabotaging their vehicles. putin is self-isolating possibly firing advisers. not a lot going russia s way. how do you see this? not a lot going russia s way, don. but that worries me. because what worries me is that the russian do not still seem serious about negotiating. zelenskyy, to his credit, has been incredibly brave. he has been incredibly courageous. he has embodied the fighting spirit of the ukrainians while at the same time constantly continually holding out the olive branch for peace. he talked about now he is willing to meet with putin. if you recall when he was on my program, he talked about how he would meet with putin, make painful kwon sessions. he has even outlet outlined the nature of some contestings. willing to be neutral, right?