mentality. his view that the russian speakers in the eastern part of the country belong with russia, under pressed. even the victims of genocide by the governments in kyiv. but, that never came to pass, because the fact of the matter is this country, even russian speaking parts, which i m no longer it in, even they see themselves very much as ukrainians. the problem is, for vladimir putin, that if you wanted to unite ukrainians, he did exactly that, by attacking them. he brought them all together, and you saw that on an international level to by attacking ukraine, he also breathe new life into the nato alliance that he so despised. he brought it back from the brink of a relevance, and made it more immediate, and more necessary. so a lot of this, just as you re talking about the battlefield stakes and lack of gains that he really should ve maids. and even from the beginning, this was putin s war through lose. everything so far seems to be going against what he wanted,
honest, what is the point of these talks between ukrainian delegates and russian delegates? unless putin is at the table, nothing is going to happen. and even if he is, is not going to do anything reasonable. stephanie, you re right. is not gonna do anything reasonable. he s sending a former minister of culture to these talks. whereas the ukrainians, president zelenskyy sent his defense minister. and one of his chief lieutenants in his party. so, the ukrainians did the right thing of saying, look, there needs to be a discussion. there needs to be a conversation. it needs to be a negotiation, and there needs to be a cease-fire. you can t get anything done while there is fighting going on. matt bradley that a great job of describing exactly what s going on with ukraine. and alex vindman just said the same thing. ukrainians are going to fight. ukrainians are unified. presidents alum ski has a his
responding to the sanctions that will prove to be extremely effective in putting all sorts of economic pressure on vladimir putin, the oligarchs of cabinet. it will take a while to have an effect. now, the dark side of the point is, i believe, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. i believe that civilian casualties in ukraine are going to mount. the ukrainians are putting up an extraordinarily brave front. they are proving that sometimes the will to fight, with nothing more than a rifle or a cocktail bomb, can overcome the russian following orders. the biden administration, i believe they ve responded effectively. they have let this correlation. but they are going to come under intense pressure soon. as civilian casualties now from
and moscow. matt, as i understand, you just heard aerate sirens where you are. it was just a week and a half ago, you and i were talking, and you are telling the ukrainians, they don t think anything is gonna happen. yeah, stephanie, that situation is obviously changed. this is now five days exactly, and one hour into this assault, this really did catch a lot of ukrainians off-guard, and i m in a different place and where i was last year and we have these conversation. those in the eastern part of the country in the city of kharkiv, which is the second largest city in the country. it s the largest russian -speaking city. it s the kind of city where vladimir putin might have expected that his military might have walked in their, waltz right in, and the russian-speaking people there would have welcomed him as liberators. liberate us from their supposed the presses in kyiv. now this, of course, is all of putin s the ranged, iridescent
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