around the world are these new images of vladimir putin making his first remarks from the kremlin, since a military standoff inside russia over the weekend. now, this is widely viewed as the strongest challenge to putin in his 23 years of rule. tonight, what you see here is putin speaking in russia, addressing the rebellion. it s a matter so public that even this master propagandist couldn t just deny that it s happening. he is vowing in the translation that we have here to bring members of the rebellion to justice, telling fighters in this mercenary force to sign up with the military or go home. what putin is doing here is trying to rebound after russians basically waited around for what imagine if you lived there, would be quite a harrowing experience, while your nation is also at war, a once allied mercenary army group that used to be seen as really completely allied with putin was literally marching towards moscow over the weekend because its leader suddenly made a publ
know, a genavisi crime family story, both have validity in the fact that anybody could publicly attempt to take a shot at the dawn is always a sign. and there are some who rule and it doesn t even happen, so that alone is something, then to julia s point, it s sort of like, yes, but, if you rule and everyone who took anywhere near the shot is displaced, exiled or hurt, then, yes, the power has now been reasserted. i guess my final question to you, julia, would be on the ukraine part. how much of what we re seeing is the proximate cause of putin s choice of war? obviously this was a choice, and whether in the long run this is not perhaps displacing him but weakening him in ways he didn t seem to anticipate? absolutely. this is all a result of the choice he made to invade ukraine on february 24th, 2022. and if he hadn t done that, none of this would have happened.