CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta March 27, 2022 20:18:00
Far. joining me now here in washington cnn national security analyst peter bergen. you studied both of these conflicts extensively and wrote an op-ed on cnn.com. there it is now. number that puts vladimir putin at risk. talk about start of the war, start of the russian invasion in afghanistan. similarities. what are you seeing? >> the big -- for vladimir putin the big similarity is 15,000 russian troops may have died according to estimates from nato officials to cnn. the official numbers during the 1980 war against the soviets is 15,000 russian soldiers dead. so in nine years of war during '80...