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And author of strongmen. also with us, linda, deputy director of the atlantic council eurasia center. it is good to see you both. ruth, over the last few months, putin has remained isolated. we ve all seen images, 20, 30 feet away from his inner circle. you ve asked forward to today, we have new video of putin sitting at a crowd of table of women staffers of fresh estate airline. what is it that he s trying to show the world? it s very interesting that he went from these absurd ways he was ridiculed which i m sure and you know even with that, covid has speaking of u.s. intelligence reports, there s a tendency to become much more paranoid, distrustful of everyone around them, because they have these ....
In sanctions. and after they ve been in power, unopposed for so long, they naturally become more fearful. and putin is doubling down, towards his own people to. because the thing with autocrats is they may, many leaders don t care if they annihilate the enemy, but they do care about their own people. but autocrats like putin score in their own people, and so, they don t have so many checks on them. and then, you layer onto your excellent analysis there, ruth, the reality of his age and the ways in which covid has made his age more apparent to him, more front of mind. melinda, here is secretary of state, anthony blinken, discussing aid to ukraine, and further consequences from russia. take a listen. we come from several days of meetings with nato, they european union. countries beyond the g7, and we see that support, not only ....
West. so russia is always the victim, never the aggressor. everything is done for self-defense. so that translates into this policy of you are not allowed to call it an invasion, because then russia will be the aggressor. ruth, melinda, i m so grateful that you started us off. thanks for being with us. next, the cyber threat from russia. they are certainly up to their usual tricks. and not on the scale we know they could be. so what is up? we re gonna ask an expert. plus, ukraine s president today asked members of congress for more help. congressman brendan on that call is gonna join us ahead. a join us ahead. i have to talk with putin. the world has to talk with food sin. because there are no other ways to stop it. to stop it we gotta tell people that liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need, and we gotta do it fast. [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ....
and we ve been told over and over again is just the beginning sections of course repair along the wrong term investment long term effort ruth, thanks to putin s disinformation campaign we re talking about disinformation earlier with our colleague ben collins. talking about disinformation facing out. we re not gonna talk a little bit about disinformation that russians are saying, because they re saying a very different conflict play out on state tv. bbc talk to ukrainian woman. her mom lives in moscow. and does now believe her old daughters account of what russia s doing in ukraine. she says, quote, it really scared me. my mom exactly quoted russian tv. they are just brainwashing people and people can t trust them. your thoughts, ruth? this is to be expected. there s going to be a crackdown on information. i mean, this new law where you can t mention the invasion, you have to say it s a special military operation, the reason for that is that putin s whole ideology has been about how ....
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