a real blow against russia. and steve, the west has been focused on the sanctions to put pressure on putin, but the battlefield humiliations like the warship sinking, and is humiliations like that have an impact to the same extent as the economic sanctions, and if those pile up, will it ratchet up the domestic pressure on putin? so, i think yes, yes and yes. certainly, when you have a battlefield problems that the russians are having in the sinbing of the moskvo or the general killed in ukraine, these are all pressures on putin. i am not sure if the russians are going to take to the streets, and they have shown no notion whatsoever to suppress
To the brink, the more pressure world leaders will face to end this war, to help families put food on their tables. catherine byaruhanga, bbc news, 0desa. i ve been speaking to lawrence korb. he was assistant secretary of defence under president reagan between 1981 1985. dr korb also served on active duty for four years as naval flight officer. i asked him about the significance of the moskva warship sinking. militarily, it s very significant because it s one out of three of russian ships of that class, which is the biggest ship the russians have. unlike the united kingdom or the united states, they don t have aircraft carriers, this is the closest that they come to it. and the idea that this ship sunk because of some accident just doesn t make sense. i remember my own days in the navy if you had