impacting russian president vladimir putin s war plans. the thinking is that he could be dragging out the fighting in ukraine in the hope that someone other than joe biden wins the presidential election. one u.s. official tells cnn that president putin thinks republican front-runner donald trump would help him. cnn kylie atwood explains. reporter: american and european officials are concerned that president putin may be factoring the 2024 presidential elections into his ukraine war approach. essentially banking on the possibility that if president biden usss and trump or another republican candidate wins u.s. support for ukraine would diminish which would then, of course, benefit putin and now this is not a steadfast hard u.s. intelligence assessment on putin s mindset but u.s. officials do think that he is taking this into consideration and as one expert said, it s basically a potential light at the end of the tunnel for putin
wins, that u.s. support for ukraine wouldiminish, which would then benefit putin. now, this is not a steadfast, hard u.s. intelligence assessment on putin s mindset, but u.s. officials do think he is taking this into consideration. as one expert said, it s basically a potential light at the end of the tunnel for putin that would drive down any possibility of a near-term resolution to this war. now, obviously we know that the likelihood of a near term resolution is quite low now, but this could incentivize putin to drag on the war through november of next year. just a day after former president trump pleaded not guilty to charges he conspired to overturn the 2020 election, special counsel jack smith is seeking a new protective order against him in that case through
president putin may be factoring the 2024 presidential elections into his ukraine war approach. essentially banking on the possibility that if president biden loses, and trump or another republican candidate wins, that u.s. support for ukraine would diminish, which would then of course benefit putin. and now this is not a steadfast hard u.s. intelligence assessment on putin s mindset but u.s. officials do think that he is taking this into consideration, and as one expert said, it is basically a potential light at the end of the tunnel for putin that would drive down any possibility of a near-term resolution to this war. now, obviously, we know that the likelihood of a near-term resolution is quite low now. but this could incentivize putin, folks are concerned in the u.s. and europe, to drag on the war, through november of next year. kylie atwood, cnn, washington. let s stay focused on
fascinated by this for the last several years, which is, what happened to dmitry medvedev? he was the guy that the obama team was trying to work, thought they could undercut putin with a relationship. for the entirety of this war, he s been saying things like that, being very hyperbolic and very verbose with his comments. what happened? i think you kind of get and i miss those conversations, too, phil, i really do. i think you kind of get into criminology here, right? you re trying to read what s happening behind those high red brick walls in moscow. number one, there s this reallization, perhaps, on putin s part or those around him that he s not going to last forever and medvedev is much younger than putin. and let s not forget when the obama administration thought that there was a possibility here that medvedev could be a different kind of enjoy, this was in that this was in that switch out that medvedev did with putin. putin had had his two terms as president. he couldn t be p
the british m.o.d. say short of cash and selling russian international assets to pay his fighters. the cia director bill burns says that prigozhin shows no intent on retiring and far from a hard exile in belarus, is able to move freely in and out of russia. prigozhin s first post mutiny appearance on camera seems to have come in belarus last week. now he seems to be back in russia on putin s doorstep. hard to believe it could have happened without his old friend, the russian president s say so. and i think the real question now for prigozhin is how long is this currency of involvement for putin in africa with these different leaders, with these different shady types of business deals that apparently have been going on, how long is that currency good to keep him out of the type of vengeance that we ve seen putin wreak on other opponents who have been so