and all that stuff. putin s popularity goes up and up even as people suffer economically. explain. it s going to get into the triple digits soon. his popularity? that s right. because in part that s how russian tv works. it s part of russian history. russian tv just channels something else in the russian psyche and history. before it was about material well-being about economic stability that putin brought after the chaotic 1990s. as soon as that went out the window russian tv changed. it started talking about empire greatness, russian orthodoxy and, you know other things that are important to russians. and then material well-being then takes a back seat. general clark, what s a bigger threat to the united states right now? would it be russia and its
like the italian have who can go in and retake a building with nato and not just leave it to the latvian police force. this process is already under way. there are already leaders in eastern europe who are afraid, let s say, to assist ukraine with its urgent plea for assistance. putin might escalate. that s part of the russian tactic. he wants you to believe that if you try to resist it s futile to resist. he wants to frighten the west with the fear of escalation. we dealt with this adequately during the koerldcold war. we have a new generation of leaders, political leaders from across europe and in the united states who aren t familiar with the tactics. they don t understand it. it s not accompanied by the same component that it had during the cold war. this is not global marxism.
car white house bound, told deputies she was running for president and it turns out she was someone who is well known to the secret service here. wolf? it s all pretty embarrassing and very scary, too i must say. thanks very much for that michelle. coming up kim jong-un s north korea firing new missiles as the u.s. warning as a warning to the united states but declaring a year of friendship those words, year of friendship with vladimir putin s russia. it comes just as the kremlin is going out of its way to erase doubts about putin s whereabouts and his health. is there really a problem? nk no branches equals great rates. it s a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping.
you, first of all, about this apparently new russian missile threat that we heard the head of the commander of norad discuss earlier? yes, it is of concern, wolf. but there s also a wave of russian nuclear modernization that we know about that s of concern. russia is rearming. russia is flying these aircraft and putting these patrols out to warn us that it wants what it wants and it s a powerful military force. this is part of its psychological campaign of preparing for the united states not to withstand and stand up against it. this is the way they operate. and so yes, we have to have the right technology and the right forces to defend ourselves and to deter. we have that capacity. i m more worried about ukraine and what could happen there. think julia has it right. we don t know how putin will see this going forward, whether he will maintain cooperation on the
putin has taken his domestic policy of sending out trial balloons international. what he has done is to go across the estonian border and kidnap an intelligence officer, bring him back and imprison him in moscow. it was a test to see how nato and the west would react. how did they react? they didn t really do anything. so the problem is that if something more serious comes along, bigger trial balloon comes along or an attack like general clark said somebody takes over buildings, what would nato do? if nato doesn t do anything does that mean they don t exist? it means nato has to develop new capabilities. it has to incorporate new threats in its exercises. it has to prepare its political leaders to understand the challenges and react to them. for example, in the case i cited in latvia you might need nato let s say, paramilitary police