coincidence. why do you think he did that? because he did not want the protest. he did not want the independent media criticizing him. before he launched this operation today. i was just on a radio station in russia tonight to go, it is called echo of moscow, one of the quasi-independent ones, and i was arguing with some of my colleagues that i knew, well i was like why do you not care about this? why is putin going to launch this war that is going to be bad for you, and they said michael, this is not 2014. that is when i was ambassador, i have not been back since because a lot of the sanctions, but it is 2022. it is too dangerous to protest today. so you listen, julia, to russian propaganda so we do not have to. i know you said talking points from american figures like tucker carlsen getting court braided. i want to get your reaction to something that he said tonight.
russians living abroad after the collapse of the soviet union. and to protect them, and bring them in. but let s leave the analogy, i do not want to suggest that putin it s handler, he is his own monster in his own way. i think that with julia said is very important. 2021 will go down as the most repressive year in post soviet russia. i am a professor, we analyze these things, we compare your two year, that is would happen. that is not a coincidence. why do you think he did that? because he did not want the protest. he did not want the independent media criticizing him. before he launched this operation today. i was just on a radio station in russia tonight to go, it is called echo of moscow, one of the quasi-independent ones, and i was arguing with some of my colleagues that i knew, well i was like why do you not care about this? why is putin going to launch this war that is going to be