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Of his troops killed, and parts of his army in shambles after nearly ten months of war putin faces something else entirely, his nation's greatest human and strategic calamity, since the collapse of the soviet union. joining us now is michael mcfaul, they served as the american ambassador to russia from 2012 to 2014, he was an msnbc international affairs analyst, and ambassador mcfaul vladimir putin follows terrorism with more terrorism. here is a nine floor apartment building. this is very clearly not a military target, the only thing he can do, the only lives he can destroy in their. are huma...

Members rebelling against the war, soldiers don't want to fight, and public videos back at their own military leadership, not supported by moscow, you are seeing them surrender to ukrainians in droves, they are not being fed, they are left to die on the front lines. and the conscripts, with zone someone week of some conscripted to war putin had them on the front lines, so they cannot fight. he can only lie to his own people how it's going for so long. >> william: you have given us a half dozen reasons why it would be in putin's interest to try to negotiate. why are you dismissing it out of han...

Is he stronger than ever in russia? >> i don't feel like that. so the first war putin has lost because he wanted to capture kyiv really quickly. >> which they thought they could do in 12 hours or so and obviously did not. >> and there are multiple try to capture what russians were talking to each other about and they were totally sure they were going to be able to capture kyiv. so they lost that war and they completely had to change not just their strategy but also people who head the war. so it's basically completely different operation, completely different war. and also goals that putin, th...

What do you see -- what do you see vladimir putin's position, how do you see it right now? is he stronger than ever in russia? >> i don't feel like that. a lot of persons divide this war and some people talk about two wars. so the first war putin has lost because he wanted to capture kyiv really quickly. >> which they thought they could do in 12 hours or so and obviously did not. >> and there are multiple that try to capture what russians were talking to each other

So the $40 billion that we spent thus far in ukraine is really only four months of the war in iraq and, again, this is a much more important and existential threat to our nation. >> and, ambassador, i mean, there is -- i guess we can call it a pattern of putin threatening bigger, bolder, more deadly action when it comes to moves by the west. at the same time as we've seen throughout this war putin has ordered most of the deadly action without warning and often lying about it all along the way. what should the biden administration do with these threats? >> kate, you are absolutely right. the bi...