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That putin's always been ruthless but would not have predicted this from him five years ago. is putin a rational actor or not? >> i think it's very dangerous to say people are mad or bad or dangerous or whatever. i mean, i think that putin himself, clearly he made a bad decision, it turns out. he miscalculated. that doesn't mean that he's irrational or mad. clearly he's not an admirable human being. but i think it's quite dangerous to suggest that in some way he's mad because i don't see that. he miscalculated. i think he learned -- overlearned the lesson of afghanistan, where i'm sure elliot ...

Poorly calculated decision that backfired. but that doesn't mean that he's mad. >> yeah. and he has to save face. so he's going to dig in, correct? >> yeah. he certainly wants to pull some victory -- something he can sort of say is victory. and i think for him that would be, you know, getting a land bridge from donbas to crimea, extending control over donbas. and then he could declare victory and go home. but right now he's not at that point. >> elliot, cnn's bianna golodryga reports that there's been an increase in pro-war, pro-de-nazification rhetoric for russian state media urging the kreml...

About trying to bring the us as about trying to bring the us as a country together. it is difficult to see any metric in which he has actually been able to do that. it’s which he has actually been able to do that-— to do that. it's true but you can't solve _ to do that. it's true but you can't solve problems - to do that. it's true but you can't solve problems by - to do that. it's true but you - can't solve problems by denying problems stopping it sort of like how trump thought he was going to solve climate change by denying cyan, but what president biden did as he said essentially what w...

Missteps like the afghanistan evacuation might have encouraged putin to try to act now. >> the decline of u.s. influence in eurasia is an advantage for russia. it's an advantage but doesn't mean that the u.s. will not try to regain their influence in the way or another. >> we should get a read-out from both sides which probably will be slightly different in the next two hours or so and again, that will give us an indication of whether the talks today have moved the continent towards a more militant behavior or more peaceful behavior. a lot of people watching. we go on to nato and vienna later ...