i'd like to raise for professor frye to consider. is that he has set up the interpretations as mutually exclusive. in other words, there's this fantastic social science research. that he wants the spotlight and then the other ignoramesis who indulge in putinology and in history. or tradition and so he's juxtaposed them as if they're mutually exclusive. that's very interesting rhetorical strategy. it doesn't really work for him. first of all, there are people i won't mention any names but who have taught at princeton for 35 years and have argued that russia is a authoritarian country like other authoritarian countries, but that leadership matters. and that traditions history and institutions map. what he set them up as mutually exclusive rather than complementary. so that forces him to sneak back. with through the back door phrases, like well putin's kgp background is quote not irrelevant and on it goes so the rhetorical strategy is is interesting, but i wonder if it advances the social science argument because it's not a social scien

about 15 more minutes with timothy frye.come your comments at (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001, that's republicans. for all others, (202) 748-8002. we will go to the independent line next and hear from baltimore. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i am really concerned about what is going on between russia and ukraine. saying everything he can say about the situation, but he is skipping the main point. that is nato's expansion. nato expansion is the cause of all this problem. nato and the west have refused to take into consideration russia's security concerns. should ukraine become part of nato, you would have nuclear weapons that threaten russia. you don't expect russia to take that. russia has to take action to protect itself. ukraine should be a neutral ground, not only to the west, to russia. we refuse to accept this. your guest will never admit to this. he is giving you all the reasons , the same stuff we heard about gadhafi, saddam hussein, assad. we are partially responsible for this probl

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brigadier general peter zlack, and former u.s.ment bass for to poland and former secretary of state daniel frye. good morning to you both. overnight the uk defense ministry is reporting russia failed to achieve its original objective and surprised by the scale and ferocity of ukrainian resistance. the defense ministry goes on to say this will result in "the indiscriminate use of firepower resulting in increased civilian casualties, destruction of the ukrainian infrastructure" a grim assess the of where things are headed. where do you believe russia's strategy goes next? >> thank you for bringing me on and good morning, ambassador frede. i think it's true. i think that the russians are i would say almost aghast at the intensity and ferocity and the nationwide resistance of the ukrainian, i'm not even going to say military but population, a solid core military, about a quarter million and another 300,000 plus or minus of what you call territorial national guard type forces, home guards and militias that know how to wield kalashnikovs and the old rpg-7 rockets, not to mention the late model stinge