00:00So Ambassador Briser, do you think getting inside President Putin's head, he feels like he is currently in a position
00:06of strength?
00:07I don't. I think he knows, unless he's being lied to on the battlefield, that the tremendous losses in life
00:14that his troops are suffering is yielding virtually no territorial gains at all.
00:20And in fact, in the last week or so, Ukraine's position seems to have strengthened on the battlefield.
00:24No, I think Putin just feels like he's simply, you know, it's like the godfather. Once you're in, you know,
00:30I thought I was out, but then they pulled me back in.
00:32He cannot get out of this because he's staked his reputation as a brilliant leader who is, again, empowered divinely.
00:42And he staked the country's, even his economic future, on this war continuing and then it resulting in the end
00:48of Ukraine as an independent country.
00:51That goal is nowhere near being met. In fact, I don't think it will ever be met.
00:54But I think he's just, he's in a dead end right now.
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