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Of his troops killed, and parts of his army in shambles after nearly ten months of war putin faces something else entirely, his nations greatest human and strategic calamity, since the collapse of the soviet union. joining us now is michael mcfaul, they served as the american ambassador to russia from 2012 to 2014, he was an msnbc international affairs analyst, and ambassador mcfaul vladimir putin follows terrorism with more terrorism. here is a nine floor apartment building. this is very clearl...

Members rebelling against the war, soldiers dont want to fight, and public videos back at their own military leadership, not supported by moscow, you are seeing them surrender to ukrainians in droves, they are not being fed, they are left to die on the front lines. and the conscripts, with zone someone week of some conscripted to war putin had them on the front lines, so they cannot fight. he can only lie to his own people how its going for so long. >> william: you have given us a half dozen rea...

Is he stronger than ever in russia? >> i dont feel like that. so the first war putin has lost because he wanted to capture kyiv really quickly. >> which they thought they could do in 12 hours or so and obviously did not. >> and there are multiple try to capture what russians were talking to each other about and they were totally sure they were going to be able to capture kyiv. so they lost that war and they completely had to change not just their strategy but also people who head the war. so its...

What do you see -- what do you see vladimir putins position, how do you see it right now? is he stronger than ever in russia? >> i dont feel like that. a lot of persons divide this war and some people talk about two wars. so the first war putin has lost because he wanted to capture kyiv really quickly. >> which they thought they could do in 12 hours or so and obviously did not. >> and there are multiple that try to capture what russians were talking to each other

So the $40 billion that we spent thus far in ukraine is really only four months of the war in iraq and, again, this is a much more important and existential threat to our nation. >> and, ambassador, i mean, there is -- i guess we can call it a pattern of putin threatening bigger, bolder, more deadly action when it comes to moves by the west. at the same time as weve seen throughout this war putin has ordered most of the deadly action without warning and often lying about it all along the way. wh...

Military that could not duplicate the kind of aggression we have seen. theres a progression in the public rhetoric and maybe the assessments as they have seen in action what russia has been able to do or not do over the 50 plus days of this war. >> ambassador, your reaction? >> so its a great question, and i think it animates a lot of their talk in the past, and remember at the beginning of the war putin was threatening strategic nuclear weapons against us, and i can tell you our administration ...

Willing to do things that were previously thought of as unthinkable. today, im conscious of the fact that the finished parliament, finland, they start debating whether or not theyre gonna join nato. thats one of the things where he threatened that he would put nuclear weapons more in play, the nuclear weapons in the baltics if inland and perhaps wean think about joining nato. we also saw this test of very highly touted test of a presumably new type of nuclear weapon. today by russia, cnn today q...

Than i was a month or two back. at the beginning of the war, that first time of the war putin came out and made a very explicit nuclear threat. and i was pretty nervous at that point, immediate russian where you spoke about the fact that the possibility of nuclear escalation. i cant exclude that possibility today. but the war has progressed in a way that makes, less likely than it was. a month or so ago. putin has scaled back his for ames. hes now mostly focusing on east ukraine. which means tha...

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Unfofrp intly, kyiv may look like bosnia in a couple of months. of course, it was utter ly destroyed during the war putin launched in the early 2000s. >> do you have any insight into what stalled that convoy? what went wrong for russia? >> theyre having a lot of problems with logistics and moving the huge amount of troops is not easy. having talked to our mutual friend, who was part of the invasion of iraq. he said the u.s. army put a lot of effort into traffic management to move the huge number...