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Just the public posture that matters. we have to remember that what is also happening is the back channels, where people like cia director william burns and other people in the biden administration are privately, but very directly, telling putin and other people in the kremlin, like the head of the espy o, the russian spy service, sergei no russian, what will happen if they were to use a nuclear weapon, whether on the battlefield or elsewhere -- so, conveying those -- not publicly, not, my butto...

Get putin back to the arms control table is if he is to feed it in this war. if we show to the war that the nuclear threats dont work, that nuclear weapons are useless in battle like this, that they are all risk and no benefit. and in order to do that, you have to keep the western alliance firm and motivated. and that is what joe biden has been doing. i have to say, its brilliantly, this week. the speech yesterday, the fact of going to kyiv, this speech today, keeping everybody united -- and the...

Reasons why i expect we havent heard anything about it from the kremlin side. they dont want to point to the failings of their own military infrastructure. i think one of the other important issues, though, is that what we learned over the past couple of days is that the deconfliction channels between the united states and russia are in some ways operational. the russians told the united states, according to u.s. officials,s that this icbm test launch was going to take place. so they gave them a...

There is no, my button is bigger than yours, the way president trump did. he is calm, he is resolute. tony blinken as well -- its an excellent presentation. this is pitch perfect. this is exactly the way you face down nuclear bluster like this. >> the other thing -- >> julia, the president of moldova -- im sorry, go ahead. >> i was going to say, its not just the public posture that matters. we have to remember what is also happening is the back channels, where people like cia director luike will...

Visits by presidents like president biden and increase weaponry and tanks and fighterjets from britain, all of that, all of that will ultimately result in war—winning capability. president putin will hope that we will lose faith and resolve. unless each side tries out that theory, im afraid this war will continue. president putin has accused the west of provoking and starting the war and says he will suspend the nuclear arms agreement. how significant will that be? it is not trivial. he is rem...

Channels-- according to u.s., officials this icbm test launch was going to take place and they give them a heads up. just like the united states according to u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan informed the russians that joe biden would be walking around kyiv. so despite all those bluster between the two sides and we heard more of it today from the dueling speeches of the presidents of russia and the united states. there are still communication channels that are open. >> phil mattingly,...

Saying, you will be entering the world of pain, for lack of a better term, if you go this route. and here is what is going to happen. and you do not want to go there, which is kind of what the biden administration did in the lead up to ukraine. so, making those threats, but making them -- not just threats, but promises, privately, rather than just public bluster. >> it will be interesting to see how this plays out. we are, of course, approaching the one year anniversary of the war, and certainly...

Him to just remind us that he has nuclear weapons, which -- yeah, we know, vladimir. but again, i think the foreign ministry statement is, as you noted, interesting. because there is -- correct me if i am wrong -- but i dont think there is actually a legal mechanism to pause you cooperation in the new start treaty. you are either in it or you are not in it. so with this weird kind of non-threat threat. and so, yeah, i think its just a way to kind of gesture vaguely in the direction of nuclear we...

You are either in it or you are not in it. so with this weird kind of non-threat threat. and so, yeah, i think its just a way to kind of gesture vaguely in the direction of nuclear weapons. >> yeah, which, as he said, he has been doing a few times in the last year. joe cirincione, the u has responded to this bluster from vladimir putin. but joe biden did take a strong tone about it in his speech today, saying he would not appease autocrats. so, on one hand, the u.s. does not saber-rattle about n...

Beth, we have this failed icbm test prior to the presidents visit to kyiv then president putin yesterday announcing he was going to suspend russias participation in the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. what does that suggest to you? does that tell you this is a more belligerent, more dangerous putin or does this suggest to you he just has a weaker hand at this point? >> well, i think hes definitely trying to bluster and to show -- to be threatening. you know, there arent very many tools in his tool kit an...