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survival. and quite a fight it is. i mean, given your expertise in russia what do you see here as the end game as far as putin has calculated? and i mean calculated because we had the bellicose speech, the spectacle, but clearly there is a strategy behind this. well, there is a strategy but it keeps on changing. and i think the speech yesterday which was full of fiery anti-western rhetoric was a sign of weakness. and what you have to remember is russia is losing on the battlefields. and, you know, as recently in the east of ukraine where russian troops are going backwards, and so i think what putin is trying to do is sort of bank his gains to consolidate his position by sending in more troops. we ve seen a huge mobilization up to a million men who have been thrown into the front line. but also most importantly to shore up his position domestically because the reality is actually this war at home is becoming increasingly unpopular. i want to get more to that

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