you look at the people around him, he had his oligarchs, he had his intel people that he has jailed. he realizes his military people have been stealing billions of dollars, they re a third-rate military. oligarchs aren t going to be pleased. i will say this. again, people it is kind of like talking about dick cheney, it is a different dick cheney than i knew before the heart attack. no, it wasn t! he had 9/11 after the heart attack, and dick cheney said i m not going to let this happen again. it wasn t a heart attack that changed dick cheney. it was 9/11 that changed dick cheney. here vladimir putin wasn t if you look at his decisionmaking process, to him in a cold blooded way he s very rational. you get to go into georgia. you don t really pay consequences. you get to go into crimea. you don t pay consequences. you go in ukraine, you shoot down a commercial airliner, no
military that is disgraceful. it is hard to imagine that vladimir putin is not seeing this. mika, i think you are right that he is not being fully informed by his defense mind tremendous and military commanders of everything that s going on the feel and how badly they are performing, but he is aware of the fact they didn t make it into kyiv. he s aware of the fact that the fight in mariupol, he s aware of the fact that instead of being able to take these cities they ve tried to take, they ve been forced to reduce them to trouble by airstrikes. he is aware of the fact his convoy sat there for weeks, unable to move to resupply or anything like that. so it has been a dismal and i think you touched on something that s quite that was quite evidence fairly early on in this
conflict, which is that the only thing right now remaining that scares people about russia is the about the russian military is the fact that they have very scary weapons of mass destruction. but as a battlefield military, this has to give russia s enemies they have to feel much more emboldened after seeing the performance that they ve seen on the ground over the past five weeks. yeah, when you have balkan states going, we re good. you know they ve underperformed. final thoughts, richard? and let s make sure they re really deep thoughts. no pressure. or not. deep thoughts, richard haass. two or three things. one is that all of these atrocities are further evidence putin is not a military man. it is interesting, you know, how many of the retired generals are offended by this. this is not what professional
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