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
privately expressed his views that major changes in a democracy to be enduring must have as broad of a consensus as possible. it s unfortunate the vote today took place with the slimmest possible majority. joining me is david rothkoff, host of the deep state radio podcast. david, thank you for being here. i read your column today, in the daily beast. it was fiery. this is just a piece of it. you wrote for years israel made the case it was america s essential ally in the middle east because it was the only state in the region that was a democracy, not a theocracy or an autocracy like its neighbors. that is no longer the case. please explain. well, netanyahu for years has been cutting away at the fundamental rights of the palestinians who live within territory controlled by israel. now, he s cutting away at the fundamental rights of jewish people who live within israel. i m sorry it s taken that to
russian population who, as you very wisely said kind of sat and waited to happen because, you know, throwing your weight behind one or the other person before it s really clear what s going to happen is very dangerous, saw that putin is the more sure bet, and that even this guy who has an independent army couldn t take him out. so even if you don t like putin, even if you don t want to give your life for him, you re kind of stuck with him and that sense of russian fatalism, which is not to be discounted kind of rules the day where you re stuck with this guy. nobody can take him out. david? well, one of the things i ve learned in sort of 30 years of watching russia is never argue with julia, and i do think that it is somewhat more complicated than it appears. i would say acknowledging everything that she has said, you also have the reality that
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interesting, important, and complicated field and we re joined with an open mind by david rothkoff, a daily beast columnist, and julia yaffey, the founding partner of washington correspondent with puck and a russian-born american journalist who has extensively covered this region. welcome to both of you. i took a rough stab along with the team here that we have been researching today at some of the questions. we don t have the answers, but, david, begin where you choose. well, i think you gave a good overview. there s a lot we don t know. i think there are a couple of things we do know. that is putin comes out of this somewhat weaker. i think he made himself even weaker this evening. he gave a speech that was supposed to be of great importance to russia. it was short, and it was, essentially, he was acknowledging that there was this problem, and he was effectively pleading with the wagner troops to turn themselves in and to work with the russian