forces moving to their territor objectives in the terrain, they are supposed to taken hold. it is really complicated and although russia has done big word games, they ve never done it for real. they ve got some experience in syria, but this is not quite th same. i think they have a pretty complex piece coming together. it s clear that putin wants to make this a rapid strike like the u.s. strike against baghdad back in 2003. he s got to achieve a couple of things, he s got to take out as many ukrainian forces as he can and of course he wants the zelenskyy government to fall. he wants to wipe out ukraine as a separate nation and that mean getting their political system down. part. what s curious is that last week before this took place i interviewed somebody who said when this starts it s going to be just like shock and all in held that would rain down and w haven t seen that.
collapse. the more that ukraine can continue to fight back, the better, and hopefully they can fight back and get the forces t run out of steam. it s not too easy when the folk you ve invaded for no reason ar shooting back at you. is that to say you believe the bloodiest part of this war is yet to come? it s hard to say i think it goes two ways bear there either ukraine fights back russia slow down and we see that retracted, or the shock effect really work and the russians can coordinate this enough and get to all of these areas. there is no question that putin has bitten off more than he can to. i don t think he wins this figh long term and ukraine, but i ve got to say it s a tragedy i wis we had u.s. and nato supporting ukraine a bit more and look at the difference that that could be making. look at some of these protes in russia and you talk about
there at its being fought in several domains, political economics and now cyberspace. now you have a wildcard like these international groups declaring war on one side or th other and how this affects the calculus or the russian behavio as anyone s guess because we don t know what they will do or whom the russians will blame fo it. they may turn this around and say hey, this was a western attack and then use this as an excuse to raise the temperature with the west so to speak. this could go any number of ways . it makes it very unpredictable and risky for all involved. wonder if it s true that russia really does believe that he has the best hacking and the best cyber attack team on the planet and that would maybe embolden him more of this group says we are going to launch an attack on you and cyber warfare and it doesn t pan out it emboldens them even more
among the many questions one asked by our peter ducey who wanted to know if the president had in fact underestimated vladimir putin. he had this tweet back on the campaign trail couple of years ago where he said bruton was somehow would be intimidated by him he doesn t want to face him because he s the only guy to to with prudent. peter was getting around to asking about that. also, peter alexander from nbc asked if the president could do more with respect to sanctions why not do because this sort of piecemeal for some tray doesn t seem to make sense give the fact that the u.s. and our international partners waited s long to actually go to a sanctions platform against russia knowing full well that there were warning signs long before now. and when asked about that cover the president came out an said these sanctions were never meant to deter any kind of
sanctions at this point in time can interfere in the short-term with his determination to see that government fall and be replaced by one that is subjugated to bruton enter russia. end, all of a sudden the russian popular opinion starts to sway dramatically and that could have an impact on all of this. read to see you as always, than you, sir. thank you. notorious group in cyber war russian authorities. they break it all down for us next.