thank youad both. brian, let me start you with. the pentagon saysst this invasi is not going the way vladimir putin planned and i think that is clear even though we re not military experts. what is going through vladimir putin s head tonight? i know it is a 64 million ruble question, but it is the question, what is putin thinking? i think putin miscalculated very badly because he s a victim of his own propaganda machine and his own megalo-mania and the way despots work, they create these fake realities and force people around them to parrot lies as loyalty tests, this is why the russian foreign minister is constantly saying the same things on behalf of vladimir putin on show he is loyal to him. and over time, i think you start to understand that these lies become real to people like putin. so, you know, i think this is something we have to recognize. because it is very dangerous to be negotiating with a despot like putin and assume that he is rational in some way, assume
the refugees, that they re going to drop off here, to get aid. and at the moment, they re mostly going through. people i talked to are looking to get budapest and get on a plane and go somewhere else, particularly those who were noncitizens of ukraine. but for the moment, there s no plan. you re right, it could be four, five million people. the u.n. hcr says it is probably bigger than the numbers we re talking about already because people don t account for the people who get off the bus. one u.n. hcr guy here, maybe he gets some, maybe he doesn t. we know it is not slackening up. it isng getting more serious. we ll have to leave it there. ali, cal, stay safe. thank you for your time tonight. with that, let s bring in our experts tonight, brian class, a columnist for the washington post and assistant professor for university politics, and author of corruptible and nya hawk, former state department senior adviser.te
0 campaign like that. you ve got to planted. you ve got to execute it. that s reason number one. that might come back, by the way. they might be stunned at the moment, but that might come back. moment, but that might com back we re much better prepared, and there s a lot more peter pommerantsey, who has written several books on this topic, learned a lot from him, thank you very much for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. good evening. i m it is now midnight on the east coast as we continue to follow breaking news out of ukraine. russia is accelerating its offensive and more civilians are being killed in the attempt to seize control of kyiv. one senior u.s. defense official tells nbc news it made 100% of the military forces that vladimir putin mobilized for war are now inside ukraine. president zelenskyy remains in his country and he spoke to the nation from his office in the capital. zelenskyy amazingly posted this video to facebook saying he will not leave ukraine and he w