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His military into key proper. weve seen the difficulties theyve getting that far already. but hes also not going to walk away from this with nothing. and if he can get himself to what we call an off ramp or a solution that involves him getting something out of this conflict even if thats the eastern regions that hes looking for or other concessions regarding membership in nato or the eu, that is certainly a way to do it is to threaten capital . >> retired army lieutenant colonel darren god. colo...

Well, i think senator romney, to his credit, was very prescient, and i think weve had, frankly — we, meaning collectively, the west — has had decades of failure in assuming that russias modernisation and the growth of a middle class in russia would somehow lead russia to be a more responsible stakeholder in the international system. but when you have a country thats run by a clique of kgb agents, things have turned out very differently. and i think that was a collective mistake that the west...

Committed to it, then this war wont end. putins strategy, similar to other strong-men leaders, is when theyre backed into a corner, that he escalate, they look for a new opportunity, they create the crisis, they escalate and escalate and escalate hoping that some card will turn their way and they can find an off-ramp. thats been the pattern of a lot of megalomaniac strong-men leaders throughout history. well see if putin follows that pattern. >> in many cases the russian military, when they run ...

With air power. but evidently the russians dont operate that way. >> yeah. no, clearly not. i mean, what is the likely outcome here? at some point, the russians, whether vladimir putin, the president of russia, realizes it or not, at some point hell have to, that his military hasnt advanced, certainly hasnt entered the city centers of kyiv and other big urban areas and entering them and holding them are two entirely different ball games anyway. at what point is there an off-ramp here for both si...

Toward putins russia. this immensely relaxed attitude to vladimir putin, despite what happened in georgia, despite what happened in ukraine in 2014, seems to have been plain wrong. well, i think senator romney, to his credit, was very prescient, and i think weve had, frankly... we, meaning collectively, the west has had decades of failure in assuming that russias modernisation and the growth of a middle class in russia would somehow lead russia to be a more responsible stakeholder in the interna...

I guess the people that are really going to suffer are going to be the, the ukrainian people primarily. and thats thats the main concern. and putin will obviously need an off ramp because theres not going the way he wanted to go. the ukrainians would just really want to go back to be able to rebuild their country and to live in peace and we hope they can do so. and if this is a way where both of them can walk away with something for the good of the ukraine people, i hope they are successful. >> ...

Any city. its good to see you. is there an off ramp for putin the way things are going now? how does this end for him? >> well, thats the dilemma senior u.s. and nato officials are thinking about 24/7. putin real faces a difficult choice. his forces are having trouble succeeding in ukraine. to succeed theyll have to batter the country in a way that will only deepen russias isolation. so essentially their choices, first they altered the goals they had, initially demanded ukraine foreswear any nat...

Towards open war. obviously, putin can either be reigned in by the chinese who will not back him or his own people can terminate his command. so that is entirely up to them. he has people around him. they have women and children who may start dying as he cracks down on his own people. but in terms of giving him an off ramp, the ukrainians are going to give up an off ramp. ive been watching their forces. they may in fact damage his army so badly, his logistics training so badly, that it appears t...

They get paranoid and they start turning on their own people is a little bit of that kind of happening here. you know, we may be seeing a little bit of that again. there are there are reports of vladimir putin turning on his own people on his own, his senior people. hes got to blame somebody. hes looking for scapegoats for all of his own mistakes. this is his war and i think thats why its important for president biden to get up on the bully pulpit and emphasize just that to the russian people. w...

Brutal means to do that. i think that, you know, if he is removed, theyre going to come to some kind of a peace settlement that will involve a withdrawal. but, you know, we dont know. i mean, its impossible to predict that sort of thing, but i doubt its going to be worse. and in the process of this war being fought, do you think ukraine should engage with, consider the options on the table when theyre in the negotiations? i dont think that any solution that is envisaged right now is possible, le...