well, it appears as if he s been afraid to deal with prigozhin and the run-up to this. perhaps afraid to call him a security service. to have his head out of the window fearing there would be a revolt in the town or more prigozhin s people would go on a wild revolt in russia. it demonstrates fearful vladimir putin was the guy who could maintain the power balance with all the oligarchs. he was the one at the center who could be the godfather. yes, you can run that business. you give me that much. you do that. you do that. he was the balance. then he went into ukraine on the premise that he could win it really quickly. completely failed. then he got stuck a bit later now, in trench warfare. so he failed the second go-around. now he had this offense on the streets that hadn t been seen in decades and that s on his
figure than putin and far weaker than a few years ago. how is it that he now has the power to negotiate this deal where the kremlin points out that lukashenko and prigozhin have a 20-year history. lukashenko was able to play only to have influence over prigozhin. did prigozhin realize that he miscalculated? he didn t get the support that he wanted? was this always his plan and this was his best option, his get out of jail free card, apparently, because otherwise he would have been put up against a wall or similar and shot. were those the options presented to him? it is so hard to tell. but looking shenko s role in this. does this upend the power balance between putin and loo lukashenko? i don t think so. it shows how much the previous status quo is changing.
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relief that those lebanon and israel believes responsible are palestinian militant groups rather than hezbollah, obviously has blah. having any involvement in these rocket launches would really escalate the risk of this turning into something much more full blown, hezbollah official was quoted earlier today saying that the deterrent power balance remains in place. in other words. war between hezbollah and israel likely would not end well for either side, abby it certainly would not scott mclean and fred pleitgen, both of you grateful to have you there. and let s continue this discussion with daniel shapiro, who is a former u. s ambassador to israel , and also david sanger, a cnn political and national security analyst. and a reporter for the new york times. thank you gentlemen for joining us, ambassador shapiro. i want to start with you and those very pointed comments from the israeli military spokesperson who says that that israel wants this to be deescalated. that is