into russia. he believes that he is correcting history, that he, himself, is an agent of history. that is a profoundly dangerous kind of person. this is a war that was launched because of a math historian. [noise] [noise] vladimir putin s war plan was to rapidly overpower the ukrainian military. but the russian army was not up to the job. [noise] soldiers abandon their vehicles. tanks ran out of gas.
independence from the ussr. there is a new country tonight, ukraine. the collapse of the soviet union was a fundamental tragedy for vladimir putin, and he wants to fix it. he believes that ukraine is the country that got away, that ukraine must be re-incorporated into russia. he believes that he is correcting history, that he, himself, is an agent of history. that is a profoundly dangerous kind of person. this is a war that was launched because of a math historian. vladimir putin s war plan was