i m sure you are aware of the total information control that the kremlin operates. you re aware of the narrative that putin and his associates are giving to the russian people. that this is russia s defensive war, that nato is seeking to undermine russian security and that russia has a fundamental right to send its forces into a war which is safeguarding russian culture, russian history and russia s future. that seems to be a message that resonates with the people and that s why i m wondering whether your message that this is putin s war, rather than a russian war, whether that is missing
i m sure you are aware of the total information control that the kremlin operates, you re aware of the narrative that putin and his associates are giving to the russian people. that this is russia s defensive war, that nato is seeking to undermine russian security and that russia has a fundamental right to send its forces into a war which is safeguarding russian culture, russian history and russia s future. that seems to be a message that resonates with the people and that s why i m wondering whether your message that this is putin s war rather than a russian war, whether that is missing a very important point.
i m sure you are aware of the total information control that the kremlin operates, you re aware of the narrative that putin and his associates are giving to the russian people. this is russia s defensive war, nato is seeking to undermine russian security and that russia has a fundamental right to send its forces into a war which is safeguarding russian culture, russian history and russia s future. that seems to be a message that resonates with the people and that s why i m wondering whether your message
still operating in russia that just a little over 80% of russians support what the government calls a special operation, the war in ukraine. that s quite a shocking number given the atrocities many of us have been seeing in ukraine, being carried out by russian military forces. sadly it doesn t surprise me, however. for many decades the russian people have been subjected to increasing repression, information control, and now we have seen that kind of repression really pick up and what that means is that most russians get all their information from state controlled television outlets, media outlets, and, of course, those outlets tell a completely different story, completely disconnected from reality. and unfortunately the majority of russians do seem to believe at least some part of that narrative that is complete lie and is false, but that is what we re seeing today in russia and it is quite sad. on the one hand, of course, you have to take even independent pollsters with the
european countries. i don t think it s going to make a difference. it requires huge runways, 2,500-foot runways. my guess is the u.s. and our partners are trying to get smart munitions across the border hopefully to include a lethal drone action. at the end of the day, putin can t back out. he has 200,000 troops in there. they are completely messed up formation control. it looks to me like they lost command control capabilities. he s got to take kyiv. he s under huge pressure. he s going to start firing or shooting generals if he can t capture the capital. talk about the impact of a potential loss in command and control as you see it.