Down in history as one of the great miscalculations in the last 200, 300 years since napoleon went to moscow. it was or hitler tried to take on the russians. right. that was a huge miscalculation. but everything that putin wanted to achieve, he s done the opposite. he s united the ukrainians. he s united the west. he s strengthened nato. sweden and finland want to join. it s a nightmare for putin. exactly. we re sending ambassadors back into ukraine saying it s here to say. senator angus king, thank you very much for coming up on this morning. coming up new reporting on intelligence sharing between the u.s. and ukrainian forces that likely stopped a major attack in kyiv. plus, china s authoritarian government got control of covid early on in the pandemic. but now, it s struggling to stop the omicron variant. we ll look at what has changed? and as we go to break, we ve got a special feature, featuring
Anxiety and suffering. once he starts a war, he pays big, big penalties. he may prefer to just, you know, kind of make the world as frightened, pliant, and play it out for a good while longer. right. maybe he does. at the same time, the longer he s there, the more openings there are for nato troops to build up along his border. it s a nightmare for putin. a nightmare to have more troops in poland, morehis border, more troops across central and eastern europe, more weapons systems across eastern europe. it s a game he can play, but it is not a game that he plays that, at the end of the day, he doesn t have to deal with more than just a few irritants. that s one of the things the wall street journal is talking about today. the cause of what vladimir putin has done, he has actually allowed joe biden to get his footing and get allies together