you ve seen not only the russian military perform horribly on the field, you have seen a united west. you ve seen nato and our allies in asia, all stand up against him. and now with this conscription, you know, what s not what s gotten some public reporting, but russia has lost over 200,000 military-aged men, exiting the country. more people leaving than being conscripted. so how he maintains that the attacks nobody is attacking the boss yet. nobody is attacking putin. but the folks around the boss, some of his military advisers, they re under constant assault as well, from within russia. but that seems dicey, too. so what scares you the most about a cornered vladimir putin? things are not going to get better for russia. things are not going to get better. there are a lot of things that i disagree with the administration on. but moving us in concert with our european allies have been really important. the solidarity of nato is really important. what happens next? we
unquote, not cease. he didn t need to look to rise kyiv. he lost the battle of kyiv, he lost a battle of kharkiv. because he was losing to do this, now, it is having very dangerous results for him, inside of his own country when we talk about the people who are being conscripted into the army, i want to call your attention to a statement from the u.s. state department. advising americans to get out of russia, and, otherwise, are at risk of getting drafted into putin s army. russia, refusing to acknowledge dual nationals un citizenship, denying access to the consular assistance, prevent their departure from russia, and with military service. u.s. citizens residing, or traveling in russia, so depart immediately. what would cause the u.s. state department, to a level of concern, would cause the u. s. state department, to issue something like this. do you find it feasible that putin will try to draft u.s. nationals into his army? certainly, i hope he doesn t do that. i ve heard from th
thousands of russians fleeing the country to avoid having to fight his war in ukraine? without question. remember, they are fleeing, because he did something that he didn t want to do. he is losing this war. you are in a partial mobilization. he wanted 300,000 soldiers, and looked is mobilizing a lot of young men, and mobilizing to leave, maybe 300,000 by the time this is over. they promised the russian people, this is not a word, it is a special, military operation, inside of ukraine. he was losing, after seven months. t didn t overthrow the, quote unquote, not cease. he didn t need to look to rise kyiv. he lost the battle of kyiv, he lost a battle of kharkiv. because he was losing to do this, now, it is having very dangerous results for him, inside of his own country when we talk about the people who are being conscripted into
states. on the part about russia and what s going on inside, you see putin acting desperate. and the system in a lot of ways is crumbling and collapsing, but i don t want to sound overoptimistic just yet, because what ambassador mcfaul said was very important about putin threatening nuclear weapons. on one happened, you have putin coming out saying, i m going to draft 300,000 people. you have 261,000 men who fled russia over the course of three days. you have protests, arrests from those protests, and you have men who have been conscripted who have gone and attacked in listening centers or military recruitment officers. so you see this fraying at the edges or more than that, right? they re asking conscripts to bring their own helmets, flashlights, food, medicine. this is ridiculous, right? on the other hand, putin still has a lot of tools in his tool kit he hasn t used yet. biochemical weapons, nuclear weapons. and he s not someone who typically bluffs and he s not afraid to play ugly.
losses, many multiples in the seven months of this war compared to a decade in afghanistan. putin is unable to provide the number of replacements. that s why he s taken this quite desperate step, which he really didn t want to take because he knew that there would be demonstrations, he knew there would be this kind of exodus from the country of military age males fearing they would be conscripted, even if they don t meet the criteria of this mobilization. as your reported noted the shambolic way in which this mobilization has been carried out and very highly criticized by russian citizens. so he s in a very, very tough spot. and again, i don t think that the number that he will gather with this particular mobilization will result in adding well-trained, physically fit, qualified, coherent units that can withstand the ukrainian offenses that will go on. maybe they can plug a hole here