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As a strong leader, he comes over as a broken lame duck dictator, and i think what he will need to do to regain basically his influence is act the strong man, and you could see him undertaking actions in ukraine such as being more provocative along nato's eastern and southern frontier. you could see him talking about national mobilization, and even rattling nuclear sabres, and all of these things are possible. >> when you think about it now, you have got russian regulars and you have prigozhin fighters that stayed with him, and other fighters quit and splintered out and the czechs have their o...

And author of a new novel, accidental czar, the life and lies of vladimir putin. just to get your response there to news from lloyd austin speaking with his counterpart shoygu. we saw shoygu with vladimir putin touring facilities for mobilized troops in russia. they were well equipped, quite the contrary from what we had been reporting and hearing on ground there where soldiers were having to buy their own equipment and scarce resources. what do you make of the timing of this all? >> so the lines of communication between the u.s. and russian militaries are probably the most important channel t...

Pentagon -- the pentagon official i spoke with today characterized it as sabre rattling. putin did this in february as well, right at the beginning of the invasion. this is the kind of talk that really alarms the biden administration and the united states has taken pains over the last few weeks to de-escalate and respond very carefully every time russian officials and vladimir putin start rattling their nuclear sabres. when you ask this question, katy, you are getting again, at the essence of what has kept the united states and nato countries out of this war, and that is at the end of the day ...

They would potentially have implemented a no-fly zone had russia not been a nuclear power. they're really, really concerned that any direct confrontation will lead to a war, an all-out war with a nuclear-armed superpower here. >> i think that's correct. i mean if this was some third-world dictator in the middle east, then we would have been in boots on the ground by now. but it is russia with 5,500 nuclear weapons and clearly putin is willing to rattle nuclear sabres and make coercive nuclear threats, and that really has constrained nato's options for intervention, including in regards to a no...

Power here. >> i think that's correct. this was some third world dictator in the middle east, we would have been in boots on the ground by now. but it is russia. we have 5,500 nuclear weapons, and clearly, putin is willing to rattle nuclear sabres and makoersive nuclear threats. and that really has constrained nato's options for intervention, including in regards to a no-fly zone. >> absent that, though, let's look at the advances of russian troops on the ground. in some cases they're being repelled. we see it on the outskirts of kyiv. they're resorting as a result to long-range missiles. they...