A former CIA director on whether Russians are losing faith in Vladimir Putin
Former CIA director, Bill Burns,warned Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine in November 2021 . The Russian president ignored the warning. Bill Burns tells Shashank Joshi, The Economist’s defence editor, about what it’s like to deal with the Kremlin and why he thinks the Russian leadership is starting to feel more pressure from inside the country.
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00:00 – Inside Bill Burns’s 2021 trip to Moscow
00:40 – The intelligence that exposed Putin’s plans
01:18 – Putin’s fixation on Ukraine
04:07 – The battlefield today
05:13 – Cracks in Russia
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