THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING
US TONIGHT.
THE RUSSIAN HISTORY AS YOU
POINT OUT IN YOUR PIECE OF
RUSSIAN ADVENTURISM AND
IMPERIALISM GONE BAD HAS VERY
BAD RESULTS FOR RUSSIAN LEADERS.
WHAT CAN VLADIMIR PUTIN EXPECT
AS THIS CONTINUES?
>> I THINK IN THE SHORT TERM,
WE DO NOT HAVE THE RELIABLE --
I THINK IN THE SHORT TERM THERE
IS GOING TO BE A RALLY AROUND
THE FLAGS.
IT ALWAYS HAPPENS.
IT HAPPENED IN THE WAR OF
GEORGIA IN 2008, THE FIRST
INVASION OF UKRAINE IN 2014,
BUT THEN GRADUALLY I THINK EVEN
WITH THE CENSORSHIP THAT YOU
POINTED OUT, YOU COULD GET UP
TO 15 YEARS NOW IN JAIL FOR
MENTIONING THAT THIS IS A WAR,
AND NOT A SPECIAL OPERATION.
THE NEWS IS GOING TOO --
MOST IMPORTANTLY, THIS IS A
LESSON OF THE SOVIET WAR IN
AFGHANISTAN, WHICH WAS THE
LONGEST RUSSIAN WAR IN HISTORY
BETWEEN 1979 AND 2008, THE ZINC
COFFINS WITH THEIR FIANCÉE'S
SONS OLDER BROTHERS WILL START
ARRIVING.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE GOING
TO BE ON THEIR GRAVES AS IT WAS
DURING THE SOVIET PERIOD IN THE
WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, BUT THAT IS
SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO
UNDERMINE PUTIN'S REGIME VERY
SEVERELY.
REMEMBER, SOMETIMES IN 2012, ON
THE WAY TO HIS THIRD PRESIDENCY,
HE REALIZED THAT HE CAN NO
LONGER SECURED THE KIND OF
ECONOMIC CAUSES THAT ACCOUNTED
FOR HIS ECONOMIC POPULARITY
BETWEEN 2000 AND 2008.
HE RETOOLED, AND THIS IS OUR
PROBLEM NOW, HE RETOOLED,
SHIFTED THE BASES OF HIS
LEGITIMACY AND HIS POPULARITY
FROM BEING A CREATOR OF WEALTH
AND DISTRIBUTOR OF WEALTH TO
THE DEFENDER OF THE --
AND TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, A
RESTORE OF THE GLORY OF THE
SOVIET SUPERPOWER.
BOTH OF THOSE THINGS ARE NOW
UNDER PRETTY BIG QUESTION.
>> LET'S LISTEN TO WHAT'S
LIEUTENANT COLONEL DIMITRI
MCKAYLA BITCH SAID IN AN
INTERVIEW THAT WE BROADCASTED
HERE LAST NIGHT, THIS WAS IN
UKRAINE, ANSWERING UKRAINIAN
REPORTERS QUESTIONS, HE WAS
CAPTURED BY THE UKRAINIANS,
SAID HE WAS TREATED WELL, SAID
THAT HIS COLLEAGUES WERE GIVEN
MEDICAL CARE, AND THIS IS WHAT
HE SAID ABOUT WHAT HE NOW
REALIZES IT'S HAPPENING IN UKRAINE.
UKRAINE.
that's why QULIPTA™
that's why QULIPTA™ UKRAINE.
UKRAINE.
that's why QULIPTA™
THAT HE DECIDED ON THIS
INVASION.
AND, NOT ONLY INNOCENCE HE'S
DESTROYING TWO COUNTRIES NOW.
NOT JUST ONE.
>> AND WHAT IS THE RUSSIAN
TRADITION IN THESE SITUATIONS,
THESE PEOPLE, THESE KINDS OF
LEADERS SEEM ALL POWERFUL AND
THEN SUDDENLY THEY'RE NOT?
WELL >>, WE SAW THIS WITH THE
CHANGE OF REGIME AFTER THE
DEFEAT IN THE CRIMEAN WAR IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 18TH
CENTURY.
AND WE START IN THE DEFEAT IN
THE RUSSO JAPANESE WAR WHERE
RUSSIA ESSENTIALLY BECAME A
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, AND
THEN WE SAW, OF COURSE, IN
WORLD WAR I, ESSENTIAL LEADING
TO THE APPLICATION OF NICHOLAS
THE SECOND.
ULTIMATELY, THE BOLSHEVIKS
REVOLUTION.
LET'S NOT FORGET ALSO THAT THE
OUSTER OF KHRUSHCHEV OCCURRED
TWO YEARS AFTER HE RETREATED
FROM CUBA, AFTER HE REMOVE THE
MISSILES FROM CUBA.
THEN, OF COURSE, THE QUAGMIRE
OF AFGHANISTAN LEAD MAKEUP
GORBACHEV LED TO GORBACHEV'S
REFORMS THAT ULTIMATELY
DESTROYED THE SOVIET UNION.
PUTIN KNOWS THIS IS STRAIGHT.
THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY I AND
A LOT OF OTHERS, AND BY THE,
WAY LOTS OF UKRAINE, IT'S
ALMOST ALL OF, THEM INCLUDING
PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY, BUT HE