allow him to have his pulitzer given the atrocities he helped commit given the propaganda and disinformation. those who turn a blind eye must at some time or other face the history and what they helped to create. you know, it s tragic to see now putin talking how great stalin was. i m just thinking later, you know, let s not forget a ukrainian, nikita krushiev. i thank you this morning for with being with me. the dow jones industrial average is seeing another big drop for the seventh trading day in a row, down almost 600 point. it appears to be on worries
doesn t trust or maybe they implemented his decision wrong or he made a bad decision and they get the blame but that is what happens in the russian military. it happened to stalin at the beginning of world war ii. he fired a lot of people. that s the way it works. general, i forget the day that they call it when they authorize the draft for the people who just turned 18 but putin has authorized the draft of more than 134,000 russian citizens into the army. the defense minister claims they won t be heading to the hot spots but clearly, he can t be trusted. i wonder what impact that could have on this war. i am being told by people here i am interviewing who are in contact with the russian soldiers, either at check points and they are saying it doesn t appear the russian soldiers hearts are in this. they are telling them they are
fight for a while. but putin is aiming for a long run in this. he has started a purge just like stalin did before world war ii. he s tightened up internal security. he is arresting and eliminating dissent ers, shutting down opposition newspapers, blocking the press, the media. he is in this for the long term and according to the polls the russian people don t know it is any better and think it is a great thing to attack ukraine. and so eventually there will be higher motivation either because of the propaganda or because of the point of a gun they know they have to succeed or die. so this is a temporary thing. maybe it ll work. maybe the ukrainians can win just because of this. but past records and mr. putin indicate to me otherwise. this is a blip or a pothole but it is not the end of the
we ve known from the beginning there were always some people in the ukrainian government, maybe the armed forces, maybe in the intelligence who worked for and report to the other side. it is just natural because the long relationships and i m sure the ukrainians have their friends in the russian forces. and when they can identify they have to be taken out. it seems to me that is what president zelenskyy has done. general, some are questioning whether russia has a central commander on the ground in ukraine. you and others have noted this. it seems they re running their military campaign out of moscow. is that why we see what we see happening here on the ground? i think that is exactly right. it s run actually by mr. putin. this is the russian model. he s adopted stalin s model. stalin ran world war ii himself. he was the decision maker. he created around him something called the staff.
the french revolution. it is a phrase of stalin s. and i m afraid it was the phrase of our former president. um, we live now in a battle not just about politics or humanity. we live in a battle about truth, and some people believe some world leaders unfortunately believe that if nothing is true, everything is possible. it it also gives i mean, for somebody like vladimir putin, who obviously the media is controlled there in in a very, you know, specific way. i mean, he does have the ability to really shape what information many russians receive. obviously, if somebody has some technical proficiency, they can get outside information. um, but, you know, he he can remain in power for living in this alternate reality for a long time. we have to remember this is not a state like our own,