over that city of rostov, that is a logistics hub for a city of ukraine. that is 1 million people. getting than 145 miles of moscow, that s not a small thing. i do think prigozhin may have wanted to test whether or not there was a collapse of the russian structure, whether or not other leaders, other fiefdoms within the russian kleptocracy that putin set out, people often came with him. that didn t happen. most people say behind putin. i don t necessarily think that the side of putin strength, i think it s a sign that people didn t necessarily want to put jump on the train with prigozhin. therefore, he de-escalated, and took a deal. he took a deal, by the way, that was very different from what putin said on television, we thought this was a mutiny, that production should be detained, he was going to be prosecuted. putting out a climb down as part of this deal, and started prigozhin. i don t think we have the last of him. and i certainly don t think we ve heard the last of potential i
shows up at the table, particularly the russian air force. would they come and support his troops as they went towards moscow, that did not have, been putin maintained a minimal level of control. i think putin made a smart move exiling prigozhin, but i would say again, he now will follow the motto of the middle ages, never forgive, never forget, prigozhin i think is going to face vengeance at some point. i want to pick up on what you just said, and president putin s minimal level of control, given the reputation of russia, given putin s global reputation for being a strong man, should prigozhin and the wagner mercenary have even been able to one have not only been crossed the border, but southern headquarters for russia s war on ukraine in
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
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