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It's always a challenge. but it is especially harder obviously during times of elections. and there are not only u.s. presidential elections in 2024, there are also ukrainian -- well, maybe ukrainian presidential elections, depending on the state of war, and the presidential elections in russia. so it's going to be a big year. >> is there anything about either russia's poor performance on the battlefield and the brazenness with which putin has rewarded the units that carried out war crimes in bucha that shocked the world, anything about russia's performance, or delenski exceeding expectations....
Aggravate the conflict, told military leaders to analyze the western weapons. he said, we will continue with our nuclear triad. give us a sense of what you think -- as much as you are an expect on ukraine, you are an expert on russia, on vladimir putin's russia. i noted the nuclear triad. what are things like in russia in terms of the support for the war and putin's grip on power in that country? >> it's hard to know what the support is like for the war given the fact that not only is the media space firmly controlled, but now open dissent against the war is criminalized. you can go to jail fo...
Months? >> look, i think there's a couple of certainties we know about. one is, putin's personal survival is at stake in this war. he was the only one to get this thing goes against the advice of his inner circle. it has gone extremely badly for him. he will not, could not possibly back off it. i don't believe he would be foolish enough to employ nuclear weapons. it makes no sense whatsoever. so there's one certainty. the second certainty, i think, is that the west will support ukraine and that putin has essentially already lost the strategic engagement. there's no way he will now capture the ...
Forces. saying anything about -- anything negative about the armed forces. there have been people who have been sent to jail for far less. it's hard to know when a stranger calls you, like a pollster, whom you don't know, calls and asks what you think about the war, would you be dumb to say, i don't like it. numbers have flipped. a majority of russians now prefer -- seem to prefer peace negotiations. not because they are concerned that their countrymen are slaughtering innocent ukrainians and destroying their cities but because the russians aren't winning and the mobilization -- the draft, ess...