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Yeah, but thats not my role to share that information, particularly on a broadcast show. but i will say this — that leading up to the invasion, one of the things that... and again, intel, whether its british intel or american intel, you know, by nature those folks in that community dont like to share information. so what we... one of the things that was remarkable was early on, putin expected not only to be militarily successful, but actually had ideas that he could launch a coup in ukraine. i...

And the countervailing risk is to turn a blind eye to the type of atrocities that we in the west have said we will stand firmly against. where this leads... i think that is absolutely the right question to pose me and to other leaders across the west. but the notion that we would suddenly turn a blind eye and say, when this is, all is forgiven and were going to invite you back in to the to the club of respectable world leadership... you know, im not sure how that meeting goes. to quote the cia d...

That vladimir putin would consider that vladimir putin would consider that enough of a success to maybe end the conflict without too much of a bruised ego? i end the conflict without too much of a bruised ego?— a bruised ego? i think its very likel . a bruised ego? i think its very likely. whether _ a bruised ego? i think its very likely. whether the _ a bruised ego? i think its very likely. whether the ukrainians j a bruised ego? i think its very i likely. whether the ukrainians and the rest ...

Soldiers and putin has tanks and putin has rockets, but putin also needs cash to pay the soldiers. soldiers are not volunteering without being paid. as we speak today, russian government is trying to recruit new cannon fodder — the expression used by you — to send them to the new offensive initiatives in the east of ukraine. and for that, putin needs cash. he can print roubles, but inflation in russia is already high. just to give you a magnitude, the first week of the war, russian consumer ...

Incentivise his own soldiers and officers. right, but the russians might have just listened very carefully to what you said and they might say, ah, the key element of what sergei guriev just said is that inflation has stopped rising so dramatically. and, indeed, one could look at the rouble, for example, and the fact that it has stabilised after crashing in the first few days of the war. the russians appear to have found ways of dealing with what you call the unprecedented sanctions that have al...

By european union, he keeps enough cash, he gets enough cash, because oil prices are very high. well, youve pinned everything there on oil and gas revenues going to moscow. your implication is that there is this extraordinary potential leverage that the west has. now, let me just quote you a different opinion from an economist from latvia, andris strazds, who looks closely at the russian economy and its politics. and he says, "its strange to think that we, "as the collective west, can come up wi...

Prices are very high. well, youve pinned everything there on oil and gas revenues going to moscow. your implication is that there is this extraordinary potential leverage that the west has. now, let me just quote you a different opinion from an economist from latvia, andris strazds, who looks closely at the russian economy and its politics. and he says, "its strange to think that we, "as the collective west, can come up with sanctions of "a size that will immediately break the russian war machin...

Have just listened very carefully to what you said and they might say, ah, the key element of what sergei guriev just said is that inflation has stopped rising so dramatically. and, indeed, one could look at the rouble, for example, and the fact that it has stabilised after crashing in the first few days of the war. the russians appear to have found ways of dealing with what you call the unprecedented sanctions that have already been imposed. right. there are several elements here. first and for...

Soldiers are not volunteering without being paid. as we speak today, russian government is trying to recruit new cannon fodder — the expression used by you — to send them to the new offensive initiatives in the east of ukraine. and for that, putin needs cash. he can print roubles, but inflation in russia is already high. just to give you a magnitude, the first week of the war, russian consumer prices went up by 2% per week, and the same happened in the second week. the same happened in the t...

Because you dont know its going to happen to. >> dana: do you think putins state of mind at the moment is to make things even so much worse for the ukrainians who have already seen what has happened in bucha? or those eastern towns really in for a terrible situation? >> bill: it will be so horrible you cant even imagine. putin cannot win a real direct military confrontation peer to what is he do? he butchered civilians. >> bill: the war in 2014 went 37 days. i have to think eight years later he ...