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>> colonel vindman, your assessment, i think, struck fear in the hearts of everybody watching. do you have the same level of fear that a ground war, the likes of which we haven't seen in europe, since world war ii, is still a very real possibility? >> very much so. i think we should remember what ambassador mcfaul has said on several occasions, which is, vladimir putin's an authoritarian leader. he's a dictator. he can turn on a dime. he can change his mind and pull back all the troops with little cost paid so far and bank the fact that he's been at the center of the international agenda and b...

West. they want to have the independence to choose their own leaders and not be forced to do the bidding of an autocrat in moscow. >> greg myre, i'm going to ask my control room to put up, if we can, we've got two different maps. one is nato as it looked in 1978 and nato as it looks now. this was 1978. you can see the bright green countries are nato. red is russia. orange is ukraine. and everything else is an independent, nonaligned country. now take a look at what nato looks like today. a whole bunch of those countries are filled in. vladimir putin, greg, makes the argument that somehow the w...

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 ...