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>> emily: among those with impressive nature, general kellogg. people praising him, analyzing the relationship between him and putin. >> zelenskyy has death in the face, and that just point: that's putin. i think he's got put in on his because putin has realized he's got a charismatic leader, a true commander in chief. >> bret: he comes from the entertainment world, but so did ronald reagan and he went on to be one of our best presidents. he has a commit haitian ability, and he has walked in the streets in the middle of a war, like churchill did as they were facing down the nazi aggression in ...

Distributed to government employees on a mass basis in early 2014 when russia was about to invade ukraine. putin, as you mentioned, cites him and the equivalent of the "save the union" address. he did that multiple times. this is not a secret to russians. educated russians would have an idea who this is. the fact that this is a fascist is tricky. in popular discourse in russia, and especially in the mouth of vladimir putin, fascist doesn't have any meaning, just like nazi doesn't have any meaning. it just means the other side. it just means the enemy. so the fact that you are a fascist doesn't...

About fascism in the context of american politics and the rise of trump and the authoritarian tendencies of the modern republican party. but tonight we need to recognize that over in eastern europe we are facing a fascism of a much worse, much more violent and much more brazen kind, in russia. a fascism that is embodied by vladimir putin, and which is inspired and informed every step of the way as tim snyder points out by one ivan ilyin. quoting snyder, putin has used ilyin's ideas about geopolitics to portray ukraine, europe and the united states as existential dangers to russia. joining me n...

The right copies everything from itself. but i was -- in that rally, i have to say i was struck also by the fact that putin is reaching for these christian themes, going back to ilyin. he's talking about the death of russians in war as a good thing. he's talking about the kind of redemptive things that unify us. those are openly fascist themes which he's pursuing in this. but it looks a little bit like trump. it also looks like a kind of very low intensity nuremberg. they're not really waving those flags very quickly. and when the cameras are close to people, there was a kind of marked lack of...

Of their economy. so what we're doing now in protecting against the invasion against ukraine, yes, we will go against the russian economy in order to dry up the funds that mr. putin uses to pursue war. this is all caused by mr. putin's behavior. so when russians ask what happened to their economy, they should look to one person and one person only, and that's mr. putin. >> oh, i agree with you in theory, that is true. it is vladimir putin's responsibility and of course he is to blame. i just worry that russians may blame the west or become even more aggrieved because of sanctions. that's just ...