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Far into the republic of georgia or hold it. so part of what putin did when he came back to power in 2012, was he said i'm going to spend $7 million to modernize the russian military and i'm going to make sure that that doesn't happen again. and when we saw the lightning attack in crimea, we thought he had done it. because he had to use special forces. now what we're seeing is he's put a lot of money into these doomsday weapons he's publicized on television and building these very lethal cruise missiles and thermo baric weapons that are now attacking the innocent ukrainian civilians, they're n...

What's happening now is that putin doesn't have someone doing that work for him. he is trying to do the thing he wanted to do all these years which is to kind of separate the west from russia, separate ukraine from the west. as inspiring as the example of the ukrainians is and zelenskyy has turned into a jewish winston churchill and what he said last night in that speech he said any country, this can happen to any country under prr. history makes any history. that's a parallel now. so that's why it speaks to us about democracy. but the bad news is that the precedent for russia is syria, indisc...

But putin doesn't. he is a sociopath. this has changed history not just for a few months or years but for decades and for the rest of the lifetimes reckoning with the consequences of this. >> what makes us so confident that we do nothing? u.s. policy is not to intervene and fight alongside the ukrainians. we won't protect the airspace. because we believe putin will stop if he wins ukraine? >> well, you know, i remember being in the situation room in 2014 when russia annexed. it is invaded crimea. president obama said will america want to send boys and girls, sons and daughters to fight for the...

Getting resupply of fuel or food. that impacts morale, also their operations. what he's finding is he's relying on this fire power to do what he did in chechnya in the past and what he's done with his military in syria, which is bombard the civilians and it's horrific. so we need to listen to what the good professor ambassador mcfaul has said and put as much pressure as we can on the russian people to bring this to an end. one other thing, sorry. is that the putin oligarchs, the oil and gas, guys who run the oil and gas companies, they're actually sanctioned. but they don't care. they're more ...

Days that i think may be quite revealing, when putin made his statement he was escalating the readiness of the nuclear forces, the kremlin spokesman talked about a statement made by the british foreign secretary on prish television. that was clipped and played on russian television. they saw what she said and she was being threatening. that seems to suggest a kremlin in a circle and a president putin who is watching tv then making statements about russia's nuclear policy. i'll let you fill in the gap about what other former leader that reminds you of. >> invaluable for us today. joining our co...