00:00So who is Putin? My next guest hosts a new Fox Nation show that sets the launch this Monday. He is the co-host of Fox and Friends and the host of One Nation, the great Brian Kilmeade.
00:09Brian, who's Putin?
00:12Well, this guy is somebody who had a bachelor's degree and decided I want to get into intelligence and he went into the KGB and he watched as the Soviet Union fell apart famously from East Germany and he went amongst the people of Germany and said basically, come on guys, get off the wall.
00:26Let's not divide this place up. Let's go back to the being Soviet Union and feeling like you should be in Russia.
00:33And from that moment, according to people that knew him, he longed for the day to put this thing back together.
00:38Somehow he ends up deputy to a mayor. The mayor loses an election.
00:42He goes to Moscow, find his way to get close to power, wins over Boris Yeltsin.
00:47Yeltsin's drinker, got involved in some corruption, perhaps.
00:50You never know the true story. Next thing you know, he resigns.
00:53In comes Putin, acting, wins an election, holds it, holds it for two terms.
00:59In comes his handpicked successor, Medvedev.
01:01Then he comes back and he wants to hold that job for life.
01:04But I just talked to Steve Hadley on One Nation at 9 o'clock, at 8 o'clock.
01:09I'm going to add about 11.
01:11And he says this is not the same guy.
01:13Now, Steve Hadley was national security advisor for George W. Bush.
01:16And he had the job for about four years, a couple of years, before Hadley took over and had a chance to meet him.
01:21He says this isn't the same guy.
01:23Quite insular at this moment.
01:25Seems to be calling his own shots at this moment.
01:27And if you think about it in the big picture and get away from the play-by-play and those horrible images of that tank running over a civilian vehicle and the 275 civilians estimated to have lost their lives today, you think about it.
01:39He is trying to take a country that likes their leader, likes their way of life, and just make it like Russia.
01:47They don't want to do that.
01:49So even if you take the Capitol, are you going to hold 40 million people hostage with your inept armed forces as it seems so far?
01:57I don't think that can be done.
01:58We just saw that.
02:00Brian, you've been studying this guy for a while.
02:03What is the change that we see right now?
02:06Is it his age?
02:07Is it his legacy that he wants to do?
02:09Does he feel like it's coming to an end?
02:11What exactly is making him tick this way?
02:13Because it's not even strategically the right move, even him being a crazy guy.
02:19The word is, among people that know dictators, is little by little, they let away anybody that gives him the bad news.
02:26And he's with a small group.
02:27And then factor that in, he's so paranoid about COVID-19.
02:31He is afraid of getting it.
02:32He's isolated himself even further.
02:34And what does he see when he sees NATO?
02:36An attack.
02:37I don't know why, because it's a defensive alliance.
02:40Never attacked anyone.
02:41This is the first time they've even armed themselves and put themselves in a position to defend the 30 nations that we're in right now.
02:48But he sees this all as a threat.
02:50And he took Georgia, nothing happened.
02:53He took the Donbass region, nothing happened.
02:56He watches what happened in Afghanistan.
02:58And he says to himself, why don't I just take Ukraine now, get the ports, get the iron, get the coal, get the oil, and become closer to the superpower he grew up knowing.
03:08And the Ukrainians are crushing this madman right now.
03:13And he's spiraling out of...
03:14I would say holding him off right now, effectively.
03:17But I would say for them, too, the longer they hold, the better it looks, because the more frustrated and the more demoralized the Russian forces look.
03:26And the longer they sit there and look around and go, why am I doing this?
03:29I have a cousin in that town.
03:31Why am I fighting here?
03:33I was forced to sign up.
03:34I was drafted.
03:36Sooner or later, Russians are people, too.
03:38They're going to look around and go, and, excuse me, I'm going home.
03:42Brian Kilmeade, thank you.
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