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Did it ever occur to Joe Biden or his handlers that Ukraine might win the war?  It now seems that Ukraine, improbably, is poised to defeat Russia, or at the very least, Putin's armies are in shambles, countless thousands of his soldiers have been killed or wounded, much of Russia's military equipment has been destroyed, and dissent is rising at home. Draft evasion is the top of the news.  The conventional wisdom is that a cornered Putin is a dangerous Putin. And we've all heard Russia's very loud saber-rattling about its potential use of nuclear weapons.

>> how do we do that, ed? what are some of the solutions? i know you don't want to set yourself up to be completely slammed on twitter, we'll just generalize it here. because i talked about john kennedy removing -- quietly removing missiles from turkey in exchange for the russians taking missiles out of cuba. what would be those turkish missiles in this case. >> in this case, there's a whole other added factor, which is the trillion dollars or so rebuilding of ukraine after this war. we shouldn't be paying for that. it should be russia that pays for that with its oil revenues and other sources...

Pressure of president putin, i think, looking ahead. so, you know, ultimately in some ways, this is a domestic political challenge now for president putin and how he -- how he finds his way through that. he tells this story, doesn't he, about his childhood in st. petersburg, about being cornered by a huge rat and what he learned about how when you are in a corner, you just fight back. well, again, that is the kind of thinking that will be going through president putin's mind and what he will be thinking about is how his people will respond to the next news that he potentially makes. >> nbc's k...

A sham by ukraine and its western allies, including the u.s. russia's state news agency reported that for safety reasons, election officials are taking ballots to people's homes and that voting in person is only allowed on the last day, which is tomorrow. on friday, nato secretary general said nato will step up support for ukraine adding that russia would use the compromised voting results as a way to escalate the war in ukraine. the voting process has raised fears russia could incorporate the four areas and then portray attacks to retake them as an attack on russia itself. let's bring in colu...

But devastating consequences for an army that's already on the run in ukraine. so just in some. we are in different phases of this war now. it's especially dangerous. it's one that leads, i think, sensible people to think how will this war end. what are creative ways. kennedy and the cuban missile crisis, firmness that russian missiles will not be in cuba 60 years old, and creativity about how to solve this without a nuclear confrontation. >> to david's point, ed luce, believe your eyes, russia is losing badly. i question that though because of the atrocities that we're seeing. the threat of a...