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Reinvigorating nato and bringing to bear unprecedented sanctions. and what amounts to a photo negative of the runup to the iraq war, biden made the strategic choice to put it out there releasing highly accurate u.s. intelligence to publicly reveal all of putins intentions and before, and now during the invasion. in doing so, biden has fully and posed vladimir putin for what he is. a brutal and maybe even mental dictator who is incompatible with the free world and a republican president would hav...

That theres something seriously wrong or different about putin at this time, i will leave that for others to decide. and im not sure what to make of the foreign minister that turned around during a flight to china and headed back to moscow. whats that all about? how do you interpret those events? >> i think one thing about vladimir putin, understanding his plans and intentions as of the highest priority for our intelligence community. every time this assignment, thats an opportunity for us to ge...

A new age of conflict? michael carpenter in vienna, welcome to hardtalk. good to be with you. ambassador carpenter, youve spent many years of your professional life making it yourjob to study very closely vladimir putin and his intentions. when did you conclude that he was going to mount a full—on invasion of ukraine? well, stephen, we saw the indications of this already in the early fall, that the combat power

Tucker? >> tucker: trey yingst for us in ukraine, thank you so much. everyone loves sanctions, they seem like a relatively painless way to punish people who deserve to be punished, vladimir putin, for example, a lot of people were upset about the invasion of ukraine, understandably, so why not sanction putin? there are two questions you have to answer before you move forward with a policy like that: the sanctions punish the people they are intended to punish? the second is are there unintended c...

So putin doesnt want us to use all our firepower and force. so its important that the west thinks he might launch a nuke and a lot of what he says he just sounds like stalin. this is the soviet leader i dont think the united states or the west understood or we miscalculated. you have to go after your own people, throw them in prison or even murder them if they are against your policies, to make the empire stronger. and in terms of, we thought he was just this rich oligarch with the most expensiv...

More with democratic congresswoman of pennsylvania. an air force veteran and a member of the house armed services economy. her father was also born in lviv, ukraine, i should note. i want to get your reaction to the deconfliction. is this just to make sure the russians dont quote, unquote accidentally kill any americans? or could it lead to something greater? >> thank you for having me. i would have to agree with your prior guest that my understanding of the traditional use for those sorts of li...

The country. as an interesting question you asked ali about what putins intentions are now. i have always had my doubts that he wants to occupy this vast country of 45 million people, and certainly he would struggle to do that with fewer than 200,000 troops but it is not clear to me at least at all at this stage what it is vladimir putin is trying to achieve. i’m stage what it is vladimir putin is trying to achieve.— stage what it is vladimir putin is trying to achieve. im struck by the fron...

It at the same time. one the incredible threat of the russian military both in terms of the scale of their ambitions. with you describing. theyre not going for the smaller option, theyre going to try to come to the capital city there attacking everywhere all at once. the size of that convoy, the amount of military personnel that have that theyre bringing -- on the other hand five days have been ineffectual given what u.s. intelligence says with their expectation and their goal throughout the fir...

City and before that the invasion friday before that in 2008, georgia and assassinations in the burly garden in this onslaught on ukraine so yes, i think it is getting worse from president putins perspective and we have to redouble our efforts on the economic side to bring home to the russian people was been done in their name but also particularly president putins ability to prosecute the war. eric: ambassador, thank you and folks watching, if you want to hear about the warnings about vladimir ...

Release of... ..the kind of negative energy which is so damaging. chernobyl was a case in point when, ok, that was a nuclear plant, but even a small weapon would release a lot of radiation which itself would be extraordinarily harmful to anyone who took it in in a major dose. so, even a small tactical weapon would be hugely dangerous, contaminate the area for a very long time in which it was used. to my mind, if he is being at all rational and he is determined to show that he has nuclear intenti...