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You just can't sell this nationalist idea, even through the most powerful propaganda machine, even through putin's propaganda machine. it wouldn't work. leonid volkov, we have to end there. but i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from california. thank you. well, we have some pretty good weather on the way for this weekend. lots of sunshine across england and wales. a little bit more cloud for scotland and northern ireland but, on the whole, it is still going to be a dry one. so, let's have a look at the big picture at the moment.

He's evil but rational. he is... our model, our perceptions of putin was always that he's trying to make rational steps, like, to maximise his income, his ability to steal money. but... yeah, well, you talk of rationality. i'm just wondering whether your feelings about putin are altogether rational, because i was very struck by something you tweeted just a short time ago. you described him — putin, that is — as like hitler with a nuclear bomb. now, hitler to russians is the murderer of millions of your fellow countrymen. don't you have to be a little bit careful at this time of terrible, t...

I don't want, of course, to blame anyone but him. he has the full responsibility over the war crime that he is now committing, being streamed online. but still, of course, i try to reflect and to find answers, like, "what went wrong? "how is it possible that we have been so wrong?" because, like, there are 23 years of putin analysis behind us, and we were all thinking he's evil but rational. he is... our model, our perceptions of putin was always that he's trying to make rational steps, like, to maximise his income, his ability to steal money. but... yeah, well, you talk of rationality. i'm ju...

Are you sure russia is as vulnerable as you claim it is? well, that's the only leverage the west now has on russia. well, i don't pretend and i don't expect that, like, nato would start a war with russia. not going to happen, right? so, the only, like, "peaceful" leverage the west still has is going after putin's money and trying to use it. so, this is something that, at least, is worth trying, because everything else we know already. all those diplomatic efforts of this, like, you know, shuttle diplomacy didn't work. another thought. you're an it expert. that was your specialism before you go...

Activities on the internet. do you fear that, again, the west has underestimated putin's ability to exert power through digital means? yes, the west has underestimated the risks here in the cyberspace, and indeed we don't see any solid response and any strategy of response. ok, so putin is bombing ukrainian cities right now, and we don't see any disruptions in communications only in those of the ukrainians. so, like, presumably many nato countries should have developed also, like, a cyber unit that should be capable of operating in the cyberspace to deter attacks like this. but this is so far ...