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This gets to jake's point about the awkwardness of throwing its lot in with a naked aggressor committing war crimes as a matter of state policy, i mean, when you set out to deelectrify a country in the dead of winter, that is enshrining the intentional destruction of civilian infrastructure as a war aim. it's very unusual and to do so publicly and flamboyantly, that creates great awkwardness for the people's republic of china and with so much of the global self voting to condemn the world, seeing themselves at stake, you know, what would it mean to a developing economy if a neighbor, a larger ...

Right now t appears the war aim remains capturing donbas. in terms of russian military potential it is rather constrained. just looking over the last couple weeks they are having a pretty hard time in this offensive. and have not made significant gains. i likely think it is going to go on through march. although it may increase in overall intensity. it is not clear the russian military has yet committed reserves to try to exploit any one direction they are attacking. >> on that point, ryan, over the past few months there have been changes in military leadership in russia, more conscripts throw...

And so, for example, ukraine was notjust a successive state, but something carved out of the russian entity. of course, the irony here is that by his invasion of ukraine, putin has created exactly the kind of national consciousness through president zelensky, who's been able to express it that he insisted had not existed before. yes, and it makes it inconceivable that his original war aim of returning ukraine to a state of dependence on russia could never come out of this this war except by russian military victory.

In a wider strategic sense, this is very much vladimir putin's calling card, and we have to remember that the g7 was once the g8, and he is the eighth member and he's not there. so they won't have heard the shells landing in bavaria, but that is what the intention was. what prospect is there, what likelihood, that russian control of severodonetsk could mark a turning point in this war? well, this is, or should i say the russian take over of severodonetsk is the latest tactical advance by the russians, towards their more recently stated aim of wanting to get control of donetsk and luhansk provi...

War that continues to go, i think, catastrophically for russia. >> catastrophically. ed, you'll remember the legendary european footballer, johan croy, whose famous saying was, if you can't win, for god's sake, don't lose. i think the question right now is, with quite many grievous consequences attached, is how does vladimir putin avoid losing, or at least looking like he is losing to his own people? >> well, this is really difficult because the ukrainians are now saying that their original war aim was to prevent the russians from expanding from their pre-february 24th geographic holdings in t...