audience. it s not the united states of america. we don t have aggressive intent with russia. the aggression we have seen at the ukraine border. the bella cross rhetoric coming from one side. brian: what if anything can this administration do to stop take over invasion here now former cia station chief. what was your take from that four hour presser ladder to sum up something like that but what s your take away? you know, vladimir putin is testing the resolve of the biden administration he is threatening military aggression with 100,000 troops on the ukrainian border in an evidence to united states and nato russian sphere of influence. i listened to the press conference putin said of course russia wanted to focus on internal issues but they can t because of this threat from ukraine. putin wants to portray himself as the only one, the only
me of hitler s march on europe. i think putin took a lot of lessons from that is he defending ethnic russians in ukraine which was exactly logic putin used. i think that s going to be the challenge for the united states and nato allies. who do we climb down from all of this. that s where the biden administration will put a premium on collection from our intelligence community. what is really going on in the kremlin? what are putin s plans and intentions? i m sure that the u.s. intelligence community, c a in particular is on high alert on this one. brian: dan, true or false. one thing has blown up in his face that the ukrainians aren t ready to blake. unified gottenning stronger and more nationalistic. they are ready to fight. i m not convinced the russians want dead bodies. they don t want a real fight. they would like to crush an opponent. the ukrainian overmatched but they will fight to the end. i think vladimir putin knows that. i agree with you, i think that s the risk of put
manships pship demonstrates weakness. concerned if ukraine joins nato in the european union that will bring all sorts of democratic ideas threatens his regime more than anything to his neighbor. i think that s what is of concern to vladimir putin. and for sure putin understands more importantly he doesn t understand about his public been. he does care what his inner circumstantial thinks. he knowed he would spill inordinate blood and treasure fight in ukraine. brian: psychiatry concerned about it and that should concern us. dan hoffman, thanks so much. thank you, happy christmas. brian: up next how george washington and his army managed to celebrate christmas even in the midst of a brutal war valley forge. kevin is here about his special how to get it and what he took away from it live. local life and legendary treasures
pest summit in 2008. that spurred action against georgia first hybrid war in the summer of 2008 and against ukraine in 2014 attack. that wasn t enough for ukraine because just earlier this month, nato general secretary staltsenberg was talking about russia not having a veto over ukraine s foreign policy including nato membership. putin wants one gvment begive him that, then we will have done incredible harm to ukraine s democracy, and that s what putin wants. brian: this week key will continue to talk. you also said something interesting in that vladimir putin put 100 plus thousand troops on the border. you said pull them back because it will make him look bad. how far does he save face and how do we get him them not to invade? what s the speed spot there? that s the concern. he has created a false sense of urgency with highly public hard to step back from all of that. honestly, this is reminiscent to
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