Zakaria: Putin Has Turned Russia into a War Economy, Ukraine Will Launch an Insurgency Against Russia

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ZAKARIA: “Well, Putin is at this point all in. He has he has clearly decided that he is going to wage this war, very aggressively. He is not listening to his great friend Donald Trump. Trump thought that he was going to be able to persuade Putin. They had a two hour phone call. None of it mattered. Putin is in this because he has staked his his reputation, his career, I would say even his his position as president of Russia. On the idea that he is going to successfully prosecute this war. This is a kind of imperial. This is his imperial dream. He has turned Russia into essentially a war economy, so he can‘t really back down. And I don‘t think things like this are going to change that. What it does show you, erin, is how inventive the Ukrainians are being, as you were pointing out, how persistent they are. And by the way, for those who think the Ukrainians should stop fighting and accept some, you know, some bad peace deal, this is what will happen if the Ukrainians are forced to accept some kind of deal. They will keep fighting. They will launch an insurgency against Russia, and they will have the characteristics of the drone strike we just saw.”