writeoff on covid. i think everybody has really seen through it. this is nothing to do with covid. this is paranoia. he is afraid. and you know i think he may have reasonable grounds to think that not everybody in his own entourage it has a suicide wish. and is ready for new color work as he entered that just a couple of days ago. this is crazy. and you know, just as i mentioned earlier that domestic oppression external aggression usually go hand in hand in russia. now, this is not only about restoring peace in the middle of your but it is also about saving our own country. saving. russia from this paranoid, dangerous strongman. those are not covid precautions. vladimir kara-murza, thank you for joining us this evening. this morning to. you i appreciated. coming up. there is conventional warfare and their cyber warfare. and that battleground could quickly erupt here at home and
nation, and as the lead the world in opposing putin, and president zelenskyy s really stood up. and he has said people to negotiate as a reasonable person should, and the russians don t seem to be taking him seriously. chairman, what do you think? i m concerned about putin doubling down. i think there is encouraging news about the performance of ukrainian military on the battlefield. i m encouraged by the impact of the sanctions, we referenced the ruble collapsing. orphans the fact that the stock market is operating for five days, and that people are lined up to get cash out of russian banks. so i m encouraged by the work that is happening today, but what is putin doing now to double down as eyelids when man said? he lacey shtick kyiv. he strikes as civilian targets. he, i think, engages in the worst war crimes imaginable. he carpet bombs apartment buildings, uses chemical weapons, and even rattles the
stand with sanctions against russia and the effects they are already having on its economy. the united states, along with its allies around the world, uk, the eu, canada, japan even switzerland, i said it before, neutral switzerland. they are putting maximum economic pressure on russia. and the financial structure, they are once cutting off some of the biggest russian banks from the u.s. financial system and from swift, the international messaging system that connects thousands of institutions around the world. their actions also specifically targeting companies of industries. the sanctions also go after powerful individuals including vladimir putin himself. in a number of influential oligarchs. in today, the u.s. government is going even further. this is a big one. freezing hundreds of millions of dollars that you know who it belongs to, the russian central bank. without that money, it s going to be a whole lot harder to prop up the russian economy in the pain it is already. in the ru
ukraine. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon, and william taylor, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, and the united states institute of peace of vice president for russia. colonel vindman, have to start with you. you are born in ukraine, you know this country, and you know putin. ukraine has been much stronger than putin has months waited. he s facing global blowback. his own people are protesting, and his stars are athletes are rejecting him. he s getting humiliated. what is this next move? double down. he s gonna respond more aggressively. the fact is that he s experienced a couple of decades of power where all he needed to do was ratchet up the pressure, and increase the violence. increase the suppression at home, i have these those artifacts. and oftentimes threw out his ten year, the west sat silently. now he has the price and, build
that is fascinating. david, what do you think about that? i think that joe s explanation of sociology of russia is really important. i also need to focus on the politics and a couple of things that are important, first of all this is the anniversary of the assassination of one of president putin s greatest opponents. boris months off. he was assassinated. and so there is a climate a very clever. not this is not a new phenomenon in russia. it s got a long history. but i think that political angle is very formed indeed. secondly, i think it s vital that we think about the different institutions of the russian state. because that has been a drive to centralize obviously. and a husband symbolized in the last few days by the picture of president putin pulling his military officials and national security officials in front of him to explain why they agree with him. we have seen the centralization