who met putin in recent months such as macron of france and schulz in germany, their aides have told people since those meetings that they've just been really stunned by how isolated he seems to be. and when you are as powerful as he is and as isolated as he is, the people you do see, the last thing they're going to do is tell you no. the way he summons these officials sitting at these huge distances from him around these ludicrous tables, a lot of them look visibly uncomfortable, like he is some sort of james bond villain, and if they say the wrong thing, he is going to feed them to the shashlgs. he is very much increasingly in a world of his own creation at this point. >> yeah. that's fascinating analysis. and to that point, we saw what happened in grozny. we saw what happened in syria. some are saying that putin is in some ways showing restraint at the moment militarily. but do you think there is a sense that this is not going to

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