As a will to attack civilian targets, even without knowing what they are. yeah, we have seen, we have to remember this tonight, i think especially in this coverage. we have seen a great deal of military incompetence on the russian side, including an operable trucks because their tires are too old. just the kind of stunning situations like that. and so, it is entirely possible that that is what is at work here, including a unit, kind of, operating in a renegade fashion. you know, you can t exclude the possibility. i think there have been a number of routes that have been coming putin s way. one of them is help where the russian planning is. now, maybe part of the reason why the russian planning soap or is that putin is isolated, and putin hasn t wanted to share his thinking with others, and you know, those in his inner circle are probably
Identity they are willing to fight and die for. edin s plan for a switch to capitation of the state has failed. russia s military incompetence has been striking. most importantly, he missed read the west miss read the west. the economic and financial sanctions swiftly agreed at the most punitive ever imposed. in effect, they spelt russia from the global economy. the new economic iron curtain has descended. it will plunge russia into a profound economic crisis. industry will grind to a halt. inflation would destroy people s savings. the west has now committed to ending its dependence on russian gas. there will be no going back from that. this is also a war between democracy and authoritarianism. it s about a and
London became a safe place for russia s wealthy elites to park money. they built prestigious property empires. few questions were asked about where the money came from. but putin has misread the world catastrophically. first in his view that ukrainian is a bogus identity. ukrainians have proved it is an identity they are ready to fight and die for. putin s plan for a swift decapitation of the state has failed. russia s military incompetence has been striking. most importantly, he misread the west, believing it weakened by internal division and in long term decline. chanting: uk supports ukraine! but the west is more united now than it has been since the fall of the berlin wall. the economic and financial sanctions it swiftly agreed are the most punitive ever imposed. in effect, they expelled russia from the global economy. a new economic iron curtain has descended. it will plunge russia into a profound economic crisis. industries will grind
Troops to occupy parts of georgia, and eight since he occupied parts of ukraine. he has sent spies into british cities armed with nerve agents to murder exiled russians. but the western democracies did not disengage. europe built up an unhealthy dependence on russian gas. even now, europe buys russia s gas at $1 billion a day. london became a safe place for russia s wealthy elites to park money. they built prestigious property empires. few questions were asked about where the money came from. but putin has misread the world catastrophically. first in his view that ukrainian is a bogus identity. ukrainians have proved it is an identity they are ready to fight and die for. putin s plan for a swift decapitation of the state has failed. russia s military incompetence has been striking. most importantly, he misread the west, believing it weakened
Ukrainian is a bogus identity. ukrainians have proved it is an identity they are ready to fight and die for. putin s plan for a swift decapitation of the state has failed. russia s military incompetence has been striking. most importantly, he misread the west, believing it weakened by internal division and in long term decline. chanting: uk supports ukraine! but the west is more united now than it has been since the fall of the berlin wall. the economic and financial sanctions it swiftly agreed are the most punitive ever imposed. in effect, they expelled russia from the global economy. a new economic iron curtain has descended. it will plunge russia into a profound economic crisis. industries will grind to a halt, unemployment will rise, inflation will destroy people s savings. the west is now committed to ending its dependence on russian gas. there will be no going back from that.