Are We Nearing a Ukraine Peace Deal?

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00:00The war is grinding on to another winter. Are we any closer to a peace agreement?

00:05No, is the short answer. Are we any closer to a peace agreement? Not that anyone can see.

00:13Putin doesn't appear to be interested at this stage in an off-ramp. I don't think he sees an upside to it.

00:21Is it because he's winning? Is it because he's winning?

00:24I do believe that Putin thinks that he is, in a way, winning. And part of it may be that he doesn't see a way to get out of it.

00:33And that's different than saying he thinks he's losing. He may well want to wrap this up.

00:41It is costing his economy enormously. His energy infrastructure is taking a beating just from the homegrown Ukrainian ability

00:50to strike deeper inside Russia with their drone efforts and their homegrown missile systems.

00:57So, you know, it may be that Putin wants to get out of it. He just doesn't see how that works

01:03without losing an enormous amount of face here and potential support from the Russian population.