they feel like putin may have backfired here, that he read the afghanistan withdrawal last summer and drew the wrong conclusion, that he thought that was a sign of american weakness, when really, that was simply president biden honoring a campaign commitment, one he had for a decade where he felt like it was time for the u.s. to come home, and certainly the withdrawal itself, especially in those early days, would have gone better, administration officials concede, but that wasn t a sign of american reluctance to be strong across the globe, and putin may have misread that is what the administration officials feel. and they think that the nato allies now are tighter than ever, even as though, of course, it s open question whether ukraine itself will ever gain membership, and that is putin s primary concern. he can t let that happen. tired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, julia ioffe and jonathan lemire, thank you so much for starting us off. when we come back, the house ove
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