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Presidential candidate. vivek, great to have you on the program. how would you handle this with the developments? >> good to see you. this is one more piece of evidence that russia is likely a paper tiger. the idea that russia has the capabilities that go for poland or other parts of western europe looks increasingly farcical. we need to keep our eye on the prize for the united states and thats deterring chinese aggression and thats the top threat that we face from a foreign policy perspective. ...

And the russian military. those are pretty remarkable weaknesses on top of the weaknesses already shown of russian military capabilities in ukraine. that prevents a far different picture from a year and a half ago, what the perception was of russian military might and putins control of his own country. >> of course, everybody has hoped something will snap and cause some kind of internal dissent against putin. i want to ask general clark, because of course this happens right as this counteroffens...

This. this situation, late yesterday, eastern time, that said simply, we are watching. and so, ambassador, how could this infighting away from the battlefield help ukraine in its effort to push back? russia >> jonathan, thats exactly right. the ukrainian goal is to push the russian troops out of their country. thats all they want to do. they just want to get the russian troops out of their country. and they are mounting a very powerful counteroffensive. to do exactly that, to push the russians o...

This. because putins social contract with the russian people, whereby he is the strong and that gives them security and stability at the cost of individual freedom, liberties and rights, that has been shattered. he has been shown to be somebody who cannot provide that stability. and the question now is, his military prowess, his strategy, his military prowess, his strategy, his capability and resourcing was massively overestimated before the renewed invasion of ukraine. it is internal security i...

>> obviously hes extraordinarily frustrated with the poor performance of the russian defense ministry and the whole russian military industrial complex and organization and leadership for not being able to provide him the capabilities that he believes are necessary to prosecute his fight to a win. and to a degree, perhaps and once again, this is all supposition, putins going, well, maybe we need that kind of wake-up call. i dont know. it is absolutely difficult to unravel that certainly somethin...

We look at the strength of the wagner mercenary group, what is your thought on this? what are their capabilities now that they have actually shifted allegiances if you will admiral, in the conflict in the region. >> first and foremost, the wagner group is a cut above the conventional russian armed forces. principally because they tend to be contract soldiers who are well paid, have been a very successful in a number of campaigns all over africa. they were the victors of bakhmuts such as it was. ...

Display, like this one from the italian institute of technology. this robot is controlled by an operator 650 miles away in italy. that is the robot waving back, that actually someone in genoa controlling the robot via telepresence, they have a vi headset and controllers on their hands, and it demonstrates the kind of capabilities of telepresence, mezzanine systemic machines like this being used in an environment where it might be unpleasant or hazardous to human beings. i can test drive this tha...

From the russian government. i think that would be much more likely than, for example, the use of the tactical nuclear weapon by the russians. these are unthinkable scenarios. but then you also have just the control of all of the russian military. will it be under unified control? they have a lot of capabilities. they have cyber capabilities, biological capabilities. we just dont know in a weeks, time in a month time, to what extent putin is going to be able to actually have a vision over what t...

The rare leader on the battlefield in ukraine and that has a loyalty of the troops behind him. do you have any sense of what the assessment would be of russias military capabilities? without not just him, but without wagner? >> yeah. wagner really was the most reliable firepower since the beginning of the -- after the early days where the attempt to capture kyiv fails, wagner has been the most powerful combat force within the russian military, that weve seen in ukraine. and really they powered t...

Is that, is that essential to vladimir putins defense of them moving further north? and moving quickly? >> it will get worse for mr. prigozhins forces as they go north. unlike ukraine, where the ukrainian air defenses have made it hard for russia, now there are no such air defenses above mr. prigozhins forces. rumors, not confirmed, that some russian helicopters have been shot down, if that is the case, they are probably shoulder held, infrared seeking capabilities or others. but mr. prove goshe...