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Challenging putin for power, profiling prigozhin as a dangerous competitor. zika wrote, according to many sources in -- clashed with the military general staff. however, the effect could be the opposite, with more people seeing mr. promotion as the most probable favorite to succeed mr. putin. pretty precious. he wrote that several months ago. david -- tracked him down to discuss the events of the past few days. joining me now is david remnick. before joining the new yorker, he served as the moscow correspondent for the washington post, and has certainly been following moscow and russia and put...

Impact on the thinking around that. joining me now is ivo daalder, he served as the u.s. ambassador to nato from 2009 to 2013. thank you so much for joining me this afternoon, i wanted to start with something you tweeted out that in 1991, gorbachev survived a coup attempt, only to be out a few months later. as you're looking at the events of the last 48 hours, even with the deals struck, the mysterious deal. what is your sense, at this point, of putin's long term grasp on power? >> well no one knows, of course, but clearly the last 48 hours have really weakened him, in a way that we haven't se...

>> i think we have a tendency to view these figures as if they are great geniuses of strategy. it wasn't so long ago that putin was on the cover of magazines as the master strategist of a three level chess game of world strategy. you know, he's such a master strategist that now, with a stroke, he's at war with ukraine, he's at war with the west, and he's at war, it now seems, with a great deal of his own power structures. and he's put himself in jeopardy, his country, in jeopardy, and there are times when i think that we should be listening knowing to great historians of a soviet past like ste...

That this hasn't blown out into some enormous, chaotic situation that spills into borders that russia has so many boris borders of europe. but it will be a disappointment, it looks like putin, again, has the upper hand after all of this. probably, a mixed bag of feelings here in europe, that maybe they've averted some huge disaster that couldn't have been contained. if this became some sort of civil war in russia, that spilled out. again, there's gotta be a level of disappointment, that putin manages to ride out so many of these storms. you know, this morning, this was looking really, really b...

>> specifically, the deal that i would do, is that it would freak the current lines of control. korean war style. armistice agreement. i would further commit that nato would never admit ukraine. permanent stop on ukraine entering nato. which is that we split up the russia china alliance. i think the china russia military alliance is the top military threat that the united states faces. the biggest nuclear stockpile and russia compete with the biggest economy and other credibility is in china. those two nations are allies and that is why china is now coming to participate in this bowl. >> what ...