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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...

That putin really had in his playbook. you know, they dont practice something like this. and theyve never had to do it in their 20 years. i mean, putin, the most serious opposition he had in 2011 over what the people perceived to be a fraudulent election, which it was, and they were in the streets by the hundreds of thousands and thats why he organized this national guard group. those are the ones that you see in the black helmets all dressed in black masks, and beating the daylights out of civi...

Satellite countries. but it comes at a time when russia clearly depends on that. depends on armors from the people used to send arms to like the uranians. i am wondering if wagner itself is no longer what it was. what does it say about the military fitness of russia? quickset is a good point nila does point out the fact moscow apparently has not had enough confidence in its regular military to send them a ride to libya to sierra and other places. or clearly on the battlefield over the last 16 mo...

Is that what youre getting when you ask them those questions? >> yeah. this is a very deliberate attempt to remain silent here. they do not want vladimir putin to have any kind of fodder to say that the west was responsible for this armed rebellion by wagner and prigozhin and his forces. they do not want to give putin any capability to tell his populace that this is all a nato and u.s.-backed effort. that is why the u.s. is staying deliberately silent at this time. >> do you think prigozhin has ...

To fighting the sort of engagement and against these sorts of opponents that you are seeing, battle hardened wagner supporters who may have thought around the world and you assume they are sending their best on this mission and they have shown that by downing russian aircraft that by downing russian aircraft that have attacked them. this is a decent element of capability that is being sent against relatively unprepared local troops in general, so does moscow have something in reserve on the mili...

Nuclear capabilities so u.s. officials are always concerned about a situation on the battlefield that could escalate and lead president putin to feel like he needs to use that capability because it is something he has threatened before. this is a situation that has happened internally with this power struggle between prigozhin, the wagner forces, and the russian ministry of defense. you do have to consider that reality here. and when it comes to what u.s. officials are doing, theyre being incred...

Happening, this dynamic thats happening which is really affecting the russian federation. arthel: but what should that coordination with the g7 be at this moment given this unexpected turn of events? >> i think it should be continued robust intelligence-sharing, it should be direct leader-to-leader discussions between the secretary of defense and the secretary of state and their countera parts. -- counterparts. i think the president of the united states also has to be on the phone during, at the...

>> after this at ending and which we learned that all the help of the searching in the en was futile, were now starting to see the assets involved in this extensive nault multinational search effort start to draw down. is statement from the coordination center says all assets will recur into base and regenerate search and rescue capability of air for future search and rescue events. with the navy confirming that acoustic technology picked out sounds of an implosion after th submersible loss can ...

Is from people going to the ocean depths, people going to the edge of space or even out to the international space station, but i think people might be a little more cautious aboutjumping on these about jumping on these opportunities. aboutjumping on these opportunities. i think also that many of the worlds submarines that have the capability to take these kind of deep water excursions are going to be looked at a lot more closely and thats a good thing. the information thats coming out now about...

>> yeah, it is super interesting, because he is saying that he is sort of downplaying ukraines capability, but he went on to say that this is in keeping of what we are hearing from ukrainian officials as well, that ukraine has got another push in them, and they have the wherewithal of the counter offensive, and they are not done yet he says is the message. >> yes, it is a strong message, a ukraine says there is another attack coming, and we are coming for you, and we will have to wait and see ho...