that s true, the russian military has had a terrible time of this i think for a number of reasons, andrea. tremendous resistance by the ukrainian armed forces, also the ukrainian people. second, lack of planning, and operational issues, all manner of operational issues coming into the battle. third, we get constant reports about morale issues and not preparing the force for what it was being asked to undertake here. you know, it s interesting, you know, putin himself is increasingly an isolated decision maker. and my interactions with him, you know, he was always kind of dismissive of his age, right, and i think it s even gotten more intense, isolated over the course of covid. he s surrounded himself with very few aides, most of them come from a similar background, the fsb, kgp, paranoid, backward looking, conspiratorial types. that s the challenge here. the american intelligence and our allies had tremendous
it s doing incredibly well. president biden trying to highlight the positive as a complicated picture of the economy emerges. but inflation is affecting people s lives. happy new year! reporter: inflation hitting its highest point since 1982. a surge in consumer demand continues to run headlong into pandemic-driven supply constraints. rising 6.8% in november from the year prior. prices were up 0.8% from october. ticking down slightly but still marking an alarmingly rapid pace. white house officials keenly aware of what was coming and moving to counter the numbers before they were released. that data is, by definition, backward looking and won t capture some recent price movements. particularly in the area of energy. reporter: pointing to an array of positive economic signals from easing shipping bottlenecks to gas prices that have dropped an average of 9 cents from the month prior to
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