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Putin might be needing and off ramp given that his -- the next generation warfare is not going quite exactly how he planned. but putin believes that it is us, the united states and europe who might need an off ramp. why? its because the impact of economic warfare on us is potentially much higher than on russia. because putin has sanctioned proofed his economy. now with the oil prices sky high, our gas prices are sky rocketing. this is exactly what is feeding his war machine. its his energy and o...

Deterrence and diplomacy may in fact not be enough. >> right because in fact here youve got a situation where we believe anywhere vladimir putin sees this as a legacy for him. in other words, hes now been in office for 22, 23 years. hes about to turn 70. hes thinking about his place in history, and he wants to reverse the results of the 1991 collapse of the soviet union to some extent, rebuild, at least to some extent, the russian empire. and to that kind of mess yannick mission, its awfully har...

Think that would have been way too high on the risk calculus for, as you said, any responsible president. the distinction that biden has made, and it is a correct one, is that there are nato members to which the united states has an iron clad guarantee of security. if you are attacked, we are attacked and we will go to war for you. countries that are not members of nato do not have that commitment, and i think blurring the line, putting troops into a country with which we dont have the article f...

And facing a challenge that hes not likely to overcome and i think that may get into the decision calculus. what does putin think? what is the end game and trying to get to? >> yeah. to the point of abandoning ukraine, we hear from person after person and playing the ukrainian journalist grateful. they still dont think its enough and watching the carnage pile up. talk about the job tomorrow for volodymyr zelensky. as we said an incredible messenger but what can he say tomorrow to lead to a chang...

And induce uncertainty into his decision calculus. then theres the option to send be 2s to england. that will get his attention. any or all of these actions would stand to regain natos position in the parents equation. neil: thank you. you always make people think, appreciate that, thank you, good seeing you and thank you for your service to this country as well. an interesting way to look at this, so busy assuming putin is on defense and he will leave with his tail between his legs, might be mi...

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Input, and we certainly would have liked to have seen it go faster or sooner, but again, they had a number of things to think through, as well. in terms of adjusting or why we chose to -- why the president chose to leave in the summer versus waiting until the next year, obviously, a number of things went into his decision calculus. but, you know, as we came onboard, the agreement that had been made was that we were going to depart by may 1. we were able to work to get more time to ensure that we...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, pr...