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Yeah, but that's not my role to share that information, particularly on a broadcast show. but i will say this — that leading up to the invasion, one of the things that... and again, intel, whether it's british intel or american intel, you know, by nature those folks in that community don't like to share information. so what we... one of the things that was remarkable was early on, putin expected not only to be militarily successful, but actually had ideas that he could launch a coup in ukraine. it was american intelligence leaning forward, saying if a coup happens, it's going to be the russi...

And the countervailing risk is to turn a blind eye to the type of atrocities that we in the west have said we will stand firmly against. where this leads... i think that is absolutely the right question to pose me and to other leaders across the west. but the notion that we would suddenly turn a blind eye and say, when this is, all is forgiven and we're going to invite you back in to the to the club of respectable world leadership... you know, i'm not sure how that meeting goes. to quote the cia director, bill burns, just a couple of days ago, "putin does not believe he can afford to lose. "he...

That vladimir putin would consider that vladimir putin would consider that enough of a success to maybe end the conflict without too much of a bruised ego? i end the conflict without too much of a bruised ego?— a bruised ego? i think it's very likel . a bruised ego? i think it's very likely. whether _ a bruised ego? i think it's very likely. whether the _ a bruised ego? i think it's very likely. whether the ukrainians j a bruised ego? i think it's very i likely. whether the ukrainians and the rest of nato would accept that is open to question. i think it could quite possibly split the wester...

Soldiers and putin has tanks and putin has rockets, but putin also needs cash to pay the soldiers. soldiers are not volunteering without being paid. as we speak today, russian government is trying to recruit new cannon fodder — the expression used by you — to send them to the new offensive initiatives in the east of ukraine. and for that, putin needs cash. he can print roubles, but inflation in russia is already high. just to give you a magnitude, the first week of the war, russian consumer prices went up by 2% per week, and the same happened in the second week. the same happened in the th...

Incentivise his own soldiers and officers. right, but the russians might have just listened very carefully to what you said and they might say, ah, the key element of what sergei guriev just said is that inflation has stopped rising so dramatically. and, indeed, one could look at the rouble, for example, and the fact that it has stabilised after crashing in the first few days of the war. the russians appear to have found ways of dealing with what you call the unprecedented sanctions that have already been imposed. right. there are several elements here. first and foremost, and that is a respon...