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I. Im not aware of anybody else during the mission asking for a Photo Request and when. I only learned later that there really were people outside of our team that were trying to do something about it. I had no idea what was happening because there was no communication. Im not in the loop, im not in the know, nobodys talking to each other, so nobody knows whats going on. The problem that we had in nasa culturally at the time was people would not speak up with their concerns. It was the most antidissenting Opinion Place that i know of. People were scared silly to speak up. Nasa is a series of fiefdoms, and there isnt necessarily a lot of exchange of knowledge across those silos, you know, frankly, ....
Over that city of rostov, that is a logistics hub for a city of ukraine. that is 1 million people. getting than 145 miles of moscow, that s not a small thing. i do think prigozhin may have wanted to test whether or not there was a collapse of the russian structure, whether or not other leaders, other fiefdoms within the russian kleptocracy that putin set out, people often came with him. that didn t happen. most people say behind putin. i don t necessarily think that the side of putin strength, i think it s a sign that people didn t necessarily want to put jump on the train with prigozhin. therefore, he de-escalated, and took a deal. he took a deal, by the way, that was very different from what putin said on television, we thought this was a mutiny, that production should be detained, he was going to be prosecuted. putting out a climb down as part of this deal, and started prigozhin. i don t think we have the last of him. and i certainly don t think we ve heard the last of potential i ....
Is he going to engage? we heard from other leaders in europe saying they would talk to their allies and partners. of course, we would ask president biden. we ask who is he going to talk to and what does he think of the very serious situation unfolding in russia. joining us now to discuss more of this is josh rogin, a columnist for the washington post. good morning to you, josh. look, an ought cak autocrat can be beportrayed as weak. an autocrat is not supposed to be challenged. how do you expect putin to respond to this? it will be quite a consequential moment for him, won t it? right. i think we re seeing all of these dictators ruled by force are essentially gangsters. they re essentially mafia dons and they re running fiefdoms and ....