CNN Inside Politics With John King February 17, 2022 17:45:00
>> they are boxing putin in. and giving him, frankly, an opportunity to de-escalate, to back off of war. the problem is that it's not clear that putin wants that, and it's not clear that he cares what the consequences of war would be. so i think that's why it's not, you know, this would work under a rational actor thinking model in which putin was a rational thinking leader who didn't want the bloodshed, didn't want the isolation on the global stage. but it's possible, also, that putin rejects all of this and does it anyway. because at the end of the day, he knows that the united states, as pr...