they are all guilty. do you hold putin responsible? i do believe he is one of them. general ryan, do we think that the high command in russia is seeing this kind of news media, and, for example, when there is a new commander assigned to ukraine, does that general have to have some concerns about being accused and charged as a war criminal himself? very much, he is concerned by those things. he is president from the very start. he s considered ukraine as a non country. the russian strategy from the beginning has been about the extermination of the ukrainian state, and all their military tactics so far and deliberately targeting cities and civilians have followed on from that presidential directive around ukraine not being a real
prisoners of war who admitted to killing people. there are pilots in prison who had maps with civilian targets to bomb, everyone who is relevant to this, i believe they are all guilty. do you hold putin responsible? i do believe he is one of them. general ryan, do we think that the high command in russia is seeing this kind of news media, and, for example, when there is a new commander assigned to ukraine, does that general have to have some concerns about being accused and charged as a war criminal himself? very much, he is concerned by those things. he is president from the very start. he s considered ukraine as a non country. the russian strategy from the beginning has been about the
cities, so it is not turning out at all as putin and the russian high command would have hoped. igtgihat all as putin and the russian high command would have hoped. what do ou think command would have hoped. what do you think the command would have hoped. what do you think the russian command would have hoped. what do you think the russian strategy - command would have hoped. what do you think the russian strategy is i command would have hoped. what do you think the russian strategy is a i you think the russian strategy is a geographically? do you think they are intent on taking the capital as their principal aim and objective? yes, a military strategy has to be connected to a political one. the political strategy from everything putin has said was to replace zelensky with some sort of puppet regime. 0n the assumption that ukraine is a non country with no strong national identity, that the people of ukraine are under the thumb of these nazis and militarists, which is delusional stu
military strategy has to be linked to a political strategy, and the political strategy, certainly from everything putin said was to replace zelensky with some sort of puppet regime, on the assumption that ukraine is, sort of, a an non country with no strong national identity, that the people of ukraine are under the thumb of the, sort of, nazis and militarists and so on, which is delusional stuff. and if he d had decent intelligence agencies they might have told him that or if he d listened to them. but i think that was the plan. it depended on getting zelensky and trying to replace him. well, that plan isn t going to work now, even if zelensky is in some way harmed, because you ve now got a mobilised nation ready to take on an invading force. and this is, you know,
putin s war so far has, quote, gone spectacularly not to plan. so what have been putin s biggest miscalculations so far? well, there are so many of them. i think that the first is he s fighting a ukraine of his imagination. as all your correspondents have shown, this is a country with a very strong national identity and will to fight. they re defending their homeland. he had in mind this was a non-country with little identity, the wooden fight, and that it would be possible in really short order to get to kyiv, take out zelenskyy, install some sort of puppet, turn it into a neutral demilitarized country that wouldn t cause russia any problems again and it would be slowly reunited with his view of russia. and that was always a fantasy. it was never going to happen. but beyond that, there s all