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But maybe we'll think on that and talk about that next time. but it seems like one of the real hurdles is the fact that putin does have a grip on the information environment inside russia. is that still the case? >> it is still the case. but you know, the good news is that can't last forever. the russian people, certainly those that remember the soviet union, are well trained in what propaganda means and you know, you can lie to the russian people the way putin has, but you can't lie about 10,000 dead soldiers returning to their families in wooden boxes. you can't lie about what ukrainian peop...

University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, widely respected "dean" of the realism school (aka, "offensive realism") of - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original

Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was clearly a miscalculation, and will shorten his time in office, a top ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Wednesday.

Down with cnn, ukraine's foreign minister says an american convoy to the region would deliver a clear message to putin that putin has, quote, shot himself in the foot and the foreign minister warns no one will decide ukraine's fate but ukraine. >> if anyone makes a concession on ukraine behind ukraine's back, first, we will not accept that. we will -- we will not be in a position of a country that speaks of the form, hears of the instruction of the big power and folds it. >> sam kiley is in kyiv for us. you hear the ukrainian foreign minister trying to say this is our decision, this is our cou...

Good news is, for now, the payoff he is looking for is that the world is paying attention to him and only to him. there is a procession of western heads of state on the phone or shuttling to moscow, trying to broker a deal. and this is where putin likes to be, he likes to have power over western europe and have this acknowledged on an ongoing basis. the problem is that it has to end at a certain point. and the number of heads of state who can travel is finite. and i am not sure -- i'm quite sure that putin has [inaudible] when that happens, when that period ends. but i am not sure