on the network and the u.s. news media since the state of the union. you wrote a book about corruption and people abusing power to get rich. is there a danger that the oligarchs will be fine, they willol always get away with it d the russian people are the ones thatn are going to suffer. i think that is definitely going to happen in theha short term but i think the only way to have leverage against vladimir putin is to go after the money. my argument has long been you have to make the lives of the oligarchs more russian, they send their kids to schools in places like britain and u.s. and stash the cash in offshore bank accounts and sail around in their yachts in the mediterranean for vacation. if they have to start worrying about what happens in saint petersburg and moscow, they will put more pressure on putin on fix this. and the unfortunate aspect of this is there are going to be innocents russian civilians wh will have a invery, very diffict time because i don t think this geopoli
0 campaign like that. you ve got to planted. you ve got to execute it. that s reason number one. that might come back, by the way. they might be stunned at the moment, but that might come back. moment, but that might com back we re much better prepared, and there s a lot more peter pommerantsey, who has written several books on this topic, learned a lot from him, thank you very much for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. good evening. i m it is now midnight on the east coast as we continue to follow breaking news out of ukraine. russia is accelerating its offensive and more civilians are being killed in the attempt to seize control of kyiv. one senior u.s. defense official tells nbc news it made 100% of the military forces that vladimir putin mobilized for war are now inside ukraine. president zelenskyy remains in his country and he spoke to the nation from his office in the capital. zelenskyy amazingly posted this video to facebook saying he will not leave ukraine and he w