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Lukashenko has let russia use his staging ground for invading ukraine. they have also consistently voted are russia in the u.n. like the central asian countries, it hasnt recognized the break away donbas republics. it has ruled out sending its own troops to ukraine. think about how different all this is from the heyday of the soviet union. in moscows misadventure in afghanistan, the kremlin would mobilize material and man power from across the soviet republics. in the sprout spring of 1968, the ...

Putin wants all of ukraine. he doesnt -- hes not satisfied with donetsk. hes not satisfied with luhansk. hes not satisfied -- he wants to control all of ukraine and then we have to worry about what comes next. >> so, with that, then, ambassador, i do want to touch on that a little bit, which is kind of putins obsession with wanting to go to soviet era russia, right, to take in the territories that were -- that used to be a part of the soviet union. who is to say that he will not then expand beyo...

And i have trouble rationalizing the situation to them. they want to know where is the west? how is the west not, what they say, closing the skies. theyre talking about a no-fly zone. the time is almost up for that. its almost unclear whether or not a no-fly zone would do anything at all, but when we talk about mariupol, were talking about a city under siege, a city where clearly once the smoke clears, once the guns fall silent, theres going to be a lot of questions asked about war crimes there....

A malicious actor. trying to twist every bit of information to its benefit. i think would be another step up in coverage of this war. >> look at action not words. >> exactly. you cannot trust a single statement. what are the actions we have seen? humanitarian corridors shelled. we have seen eight years of their so called cease fires and agreement. repeatedly violated. the constant lies that the puppet authorities in the donbas are independent. referring to the so called republics. so there is no...

Bridge to the sea of azov anyway? >> he certainly has that option and remember when he fought 20 years ago, he spent about five months just destroying the city. its just like mariupol. so, right now putin still thinks he has a war he can win out in the east. and thats why every battle around the towns and the roads from izyum down to -- and they have to do the same thing in the east so he cannot get the road and create that set of republics that he wants to do. >> trace: washington post is repor...

And freshwater canals, and seize additional territory to use as a buffer zone. and dr. grant as you look at that list, is there anything you would either add or subtract? >> well, the politics behind this, p utin wants to nail down the so-called peoples republics in the east and whats also on the list is as we just saw in kyiv, he will continue to use air power and artillery to strike any city in ukraine as he wants to, even though the main fighting is going to be concentrated there in the east....

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Against it. thats something were trying to find out more if theyre getting some of those defensive capabilities in the coming days, chuck. >> courtney kube at the pentagon for us. courtney, thank you. let me bring in mike mcfaul, our former u.s. ambassador to russia. we heard from sergey lavrov today and he said the new goal is liberating, air quotes, because thats what the russians want to do, the two republics in the east, donetsk and luhansk. do you expect now on may 9th putin to declare that...

They continue that counter attack and goes this way, they cut off the crimea. there is only a four-mile stretch of land, and if they do that, it forces the russians to look elsewhere. and then what happens potentially negotiations, you want to break republics, fine, im going to keep crimea. not saying its going to happen, but the way the ukrainians are fighting, asymmetrically, i would not be surprised if they do something like that. >> john: putin sounds like he has his back against the wall, t...

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