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Things changed in the sense? >> we always thought putin was in control and the russian state was a tightly knit operation and the fsb and such were in complete control and the defense ministry in the army saluted. does this suggest that its not, you know, that its not that vertical of power as we used to think? >> i think that putin was very much in control of the security forces and were very much in control, but as with anything in russia there are exceptions and those exceptions are corruptio...

Disastrous chechen war produced some military generals who at some moment post a significant political threat to putins prede predecessor yeltsin. and just in case, he wants to keep his military in line. he cannot tolerate a proper competition between his security services. so he cannot put his national guard against the army. or the fsb against the svr because it would be too risky for him. but to use someone like prigozhin. who does have some independent income but at the same time he doesnt h...

Offensive, clearly something has begun in terms of inshahhing operations like the incursion into belgorod and bakhmut and we are still waiting for the main, vent and i think its anybodys guess. people are trying to be conservative and judicious in their predictions. people think it will be much more difficult than the fall offensive when ukraine won back kharkiv and kherson, but at this point people in the west say, washington, at least, that in washington say that ukraine has what it needs and ...

Is waging this bloody, criminal war in ukraine and using people like prigozhin in the east and its important to understand whats going on and when you have not a lot of information all you can do is read tea leaves and try to decipher the few public statements that these people make. >> andrei, describe for us, your answer to this question. what is going on? because you have a wonderful foreign affairs essay where you make some very informed speculation. >> the problem with prigozhin is that hes...

♪ in an interview with the russian war blogger made public this week, the head of russias mercenary wag fer group prigozhin has this warning. unless they gave up their charmed lives and pitched in on the war effort, the current moment in the country could end up looking like 1917. he was warning, in other words, of a second russian revolution. its just the latest of a series of a alarming critiques hes lodged including the current defense minister and putin himself. we know about putins comp...

In an interview with the russian war blogger made public this week the head of russias mercenary wagner group yevgeny prigozhin had this word for the elite, unless they gave up their charmed lives and pitched in on the war effort the current moment in the country could end up looking like 1917. he was warning, in other words, of a second russian revolution. it was just the latest of a series of alarming critiques that prigozhin has launched at the russian establishment including the current defe...

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Subway suicide bombings, weve had attacks against a theatre in moscow, these were connect to the chechen war is and coming from church, it is not inconceivable that these kinds of attacks could have occurred. we have had drones get shot down around the white house in washington, so nothing is impenetrable, these days. we have seen _ impenetrable, these days. we have seen ukraine and russia basically pointing fingers at each other for what happened, what can the us do here to ensure that things d...