well look, what s going on is very clear. you have a very high stakes game of chicken. this is what s playing out. you ve got the biden regime doing something we ve never seen before and they are almost open about it now. they are trying to beat putin at his own game of information warfare. that s what we ve seen over the last few weeks. the steady drip of what they call intelligence. we don t know if it s real intelligence or actually manufactured intelligence as part of their strategy to try and say to putin we know what your game is and we ll tell the world what we think you are planning to do in order to stop you from doing it. the problem is, you re dealing with someone in putin who doesn t play by any kind of rules. what they might actually end up doing, this is what i fear, is goading putin into some kind of action simply to show that he is not weak and is not put off for intimidated by these tactics. that s how i think we should
military playbook. the classic russian military playbook of being completely reckless around very dangerous things like nuclear plants. and, we just had word moments ago that the fire has now been completely extinguished. that is an enormous relief. peter, whether or not the fire is extinguished now, the broader picture, where does this attack tell you about the kremlin strategy for war, now, where they re going? this reminds us that the kremlin doesn t play by the same rulebook that other countries do. that, the united states goes to war, there are rules, and sometimes they re violated, and sometimes you have consequences that could go wrong. but they re at least supposed to be rules about the kind of targets that you can hit. precision weapons, nuclear plant obviously would be on the no hit list.
or yesterday when the un general assembly condemned this, urged to russia to change course. does any of this matter? are we speaking a language that need means nothing to vladimir putin? he was never in it for the norms. great point. you know, after world war ii, we wrote down our lot of norms. we created the un security council. one of the norms was, thou shall not annexed the territory of thy neighbor, because that s the way world war ii started, if you recall, throughout taxation. and sure enough, he did that in 2014. he did it again just a couple of weeks ago. and then, and unprovoked war with no threat whatsoever to russia from ukraine. that reminds me, september 1st 1989. you re absolutely right, he doesn t care about the norms, but i know about the other part of the way russia fights. which is reckless. we keep using the words,
0 we understand that it took 40 people and ten vehicles, now, from the ukrainian special services, to put out the fire. the fire now, we understand, was in a training building behind the plant. but look, not any less alarming when you look at that video, and you the plant. the other thing, there is nothing to, to guarantee that won t be some kind of russian counter attack. we have seen this time and time again, two russian tanks, two armored personnel carriers and it took civilians standing in the room to stop them from progressing and came back 12 hours later and we saw the sustained fire fight. in the last few minutes, we re hearing from the united kingdom prime minister boris johnson, in the last few hour, putting the entire continent, putting all of europe at risk and similar words from the ukrainian president, releasing a video on telegram saying it was time for europe to quote wake up. we ve seen sustained attacks on civilian areas in the past 24 hours, in especially in the north
true either. instead, it sjust part of the true either. instead, it sjust part of the game that we have to play. | of the game that we have to play. i think of the game that we have to play. think what of the game that we have to play. i think what angers people is, joe, that people have been fined for having business meetings and then finishing off the business meeting with a glass of wine or beer, they had actually been fined for that and it does look like it s one rule for them and one for the rest of us. this is the real dangerfor the this is the real danger for the government, that this narrative that the government doesn t play by the rules, the government doesn t play by the rules, doesn t play fairly, and worst rules, doesn t play fairly, and worst of rules, doesn t play fairly, and worst of all cannot be trusted is something that could really gain momentum, more than any of the individual momentum, more than any of the individual events, became a native have individua