and in ways that will provide time for the world to secure alternative supplies. with us tonight, ruth ben-ghiat, history professor at nyu, and the author of the book, strongman: mussolini to the president. ruth, you recently tweeted about putin and other kleptocrats saying, western wheat for their oil and money prop them up to years. will these take attempt? i hope so. they re actually getting to the heart of putin s regime, because putin isn t just a dictator, he s a kleptocrat. and he s holding xin revolves around control and plunder of national resources of oil and gas. and an echo talk russi, we gazprom, the energy conglomerate is treated as a personal tool by putin and the olive arcs. and its profits are actually kind of blundered, exfiltration where the blob profits are not