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If you'd run a country for 22 years, like vladimir putin has, and if you'd silenced all your critics and crushed the opposition, like putin has, you may well feel like putin appears to feel — that you will always end up a winner. to acknowledge that any other outcome is possible means facing up to an unpalatable fact that you are not invincible. and in a country with no checks or balances, and where the leaders don't feel accountable to the public, there are few constraints on kremlin decision—making. the problem is that the system, which was created in this 30 years, didn't create the soc...

And he's started to believe that this is existential. would putin really go nuclear in ukraine? he's dropped unsubtle hints. days before the russian invasion, the president oversaw massive nuclear drills. he's since warned the west he's not bluffing about the nuclear option. in putin's mind, for him, defeat is unimaginable. if you'd run a country for 22 years like vladimir putin has, and if you'd silenced all your critics and crushed the opposition, like putin has, you may well feel like putin appears to feel — that you will always end up a winner. to acknowledge that any other outcome is po...

US President Joe Biden on Friday called Russia referendum a sham and said that America will never recognize Ukrainian territory as anything other than part

Concerns of all parties. the international community will create the conditions and space for this. >> tucker: we call on all parties to achieve a cease-fire, like the one they nearly had in april, before the biden administration blew it up, because they want regime change in russia. that's coming from china, which has a human rights record that makes russia seem like sweden. china has benefited from the war as putin has, but even the chinese are not crazy enough to want nuclear armageddon. in the end, all they want to do its dominate through business. they don't want customers to blow themsel...

He also threatened -- and this is harrowing -- to use, quote, all means at our disposal, even referencing a potential use of nuclear weapons. global leaders say this is a sign putin is panicking, but how seriously should we take this? joining me now jane harman, a distinguished fellow and president emerita of the wilson center, a nonpartisan think ta.congresswoman harman, good t have you back on this morning. >> thank so how seriously -- >> that's my question. he said in so many words this is not a bluff. how seriously should the u.s. take this? >> well, this is not a bluff on the other side, ...