it got a prigozhin, the leader of the wacker group, abruptly called off his armed rebellion. mid march to moscow. after agreeing to a mysterious deal reportedly brokered by the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. prigozhin may have a problem back down for now, but he has exposed some very real cracks in putin s power. it s hard to imagine things going back to where they were. over the next, hour we re going to continue digging into a number of the big questions around the events in russia over the last 48 hours. what is going on in moscow, what does it all mean for putin, ukraine? we re going to start on the ground, joining us live from moscow s kier simmons. i know you ve only been there for a short period of time, here, but what is happening on the ground right now? what are you seeing on the ground around you? i just arrived in moscow, jen, you can see for yourself. behind me. one of the main thoroughfares in moscow, and it looks like ordinary life. you might eve
50. Im. It was go until it was not cocked and loaded to attack iran President Donald Trump pulled back from the precipice would just moments remaining calling off military strikes on iraq crisis averted or deferred tehrans downing of an american surveillance drone prompted the aborted retaliation by the u. S. Bringing the arch enemies dangerously close to war fanning the flames of war and posturing with lives on the line where do washington and tehran go from here on. This is the day. The president may not intend to go to war here but were worried that even the Administration May be bumbled into a war no im sure in the in which you know that the ultimate player ever did that
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can stay in power. that s one thing to look at. the second is, russia doesn t have many military options. but what they do have is escalation options. and i do worry, and i think people in the white house are being very close attention to the possibility of, perhaps, preparations to blow up the nuclear power station in zaporizhzhia. they ve just blown up in an incredible way, the hydroelectric dam in the north which has caused extraordinary catastrophic damage. and we have to worry about the possibility of putin using nuclear weapons. so i hope that the white house and the defense department are not only looking at this closely, but making it very clear to the russians that any form of escalation, a deliberate nuclear incident, would lead to catastrophic consequences edge jake sullivan, the national security adviser, had said last october. and that those catastrophic
about that? well thank you very much for having me on firstly. l much for having me on firstly. frankly, putin doesn t care about sanctions, all the indicators continue to point to further incursions by russian forces and what i would tell you is, the next steps, any one of many possible escalation options probably are going to involve an effort to capture the remainder of don bus. but from a strategic perspective of and that s what i think a lot of commentators are missing today, what is at play here? is it the capability and capacity of the united states and to a lesser degree nato to deter major regional conflict significantly eroded over the past 30 years. and that is part of why putin has taken the actions that he has.- of why putin has taken the actions that he has. sorry to interrunt actions that he has. sorry to interrunt you actions that he has. sorry to interrupt you there, - actions that he has. sorry to interrupt you there, before l actions that he has. sorry to l inter
but that s their doctrine. and i think he was reminding us of that. do you actually think he would use battle field nuclear weapons? i think no matter what his state of mind is, i think he understands if he were to use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield, that would trigger the third world war and he wouldn t go down as a historic figure because there wouldn t be anyone else to talk about it. but you worry when someone begins to run out of escalation options and left with things like attack space and cyber, that these things begin to escalate. that s the point. escalation at any kind what if the russian navy decides to ignore that order and proceed through and they re confronted by nato ships? now you have a nato conflict. there s a real danger in this. that just means we need to be aware there are dangers of escalation being underappreciated by some.