and shattered because of the beam that he is facing. ukrainian people and president zelenskyy who is resolute. and when you look at both of them, it reminds me of a napoleonic material as to one. in war time morale counts, will counts and you are seeing that with president zelenskyy. and seeing that with the ukrainian people. you asked a great question how too we resolve this? well, it s going to be hard question to answer. the first thing i would say is president biden needs to realize now he is a war time president. and he is going to have to make some hard decisions in support of the alliance in support of nato and in support of the world and in support of the american people. and that may well mean we have to do something physical on the ground. how do we do that? it may mean supply crumbs. we did the berlin airlift. we did that by arab. we have to do this by ground. but the ground lines are open. you can push in from poland, wide open right now. we keep pushing a lot of equipment
actually challenged him with something that was soul searching and came from something that the president read on his own, he was not given that book by the c.i.a. or the state department, but that was the nature of that conversation. other conversations with president putin over the years definitely showed him number one to be surprisingly ignorant of economics. very much a bit napoleonic, my dog is bigger than your dog, my camp david is bigger than your camp david. i saw him as an insecure bully and i think he is a cornered, angry person right now and i fear for how he might react. sandra: andy, what do you think when you see the pictures and video that we have seen of vladimir putin in recent days and weeks at the end of the table, the staff, the readouts of what he is saying, you ve seen him speak directly to the camera, then translated for
his oligarchs went on a crusade to reacquire the roman of faberge easter eggs. once putin came into power and we know they are very close and he is somebody who values history and that was very clear in my interactions with him when he wanted to very much quiz me about what i knew about russian artistic history, if i had visited the faberge museum, i had not at the time and he was visibly annoyed with me and i was only able to save myself because i started talking about the hermitage and how it is like the liver and are testament to imperialism and the treasures with a napoleonic tone and that it cannot be underestimated because it is a very similar mindset. be underestimated because it is a very similar mindset. could you help us understand very similar mindset. could you help us understand when very similar mindset. could you help us understand when you very similar mindset. could you help us understand when you met - very similar mindset. could you help us understand when you