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she is the great-granddaughter of the farmer soviet premier nikita khrushchev.test piece for project syndicate is headlined "putin is no nixon." professor, welcome back to democracy now! spoke to you just over a month ago. you are in moscow at the time. can you first respond to the latest developments? the significance of putin's hour-long address yesterday, and declaring the separatist areas of ukraine independent states? >> thank you. a lot has changed in a month. we are still waiting for the big invasion. i want to correct -- not correct, but amend a little bit the statements about the russian troops going or peacekeepers going into donetsk and luhansk. it hasn't happen yet. the ministry of foign affairs said prominently that there holding on this decision and the separatist leaders said it is their decision when they're going to ask for peacekeing. so in some ways, it does look today that the decision wamade to recognize the republics as independent states, but putin at this point stopped here and could be a sign he is slightly blinking and waiting for furth

nikita khrushchev khrushchev who has been in the war khrushchev who has survived joseph stalin i love ariana's face right there. she's like yeah survive that so he thinks that he can just charm him so he wasn't prepared. so imagine going into a summit meeting. with the head of the soviet union and you haven't done your homework. have you ever walked in to okay, let me see the heads already not. and he just wasn't ready. and afterwards he told a new york times reporter cruise ship beat the hell out of me. yeah. because there was the bay of pigs that debacle where the us had tried to invade cuba. after fidel castro had taken over the island knocked out batista and the bay of pigs. mmm. went about as well as the vienna summit. so he's got stuff on him. and so he's trying to figure out how do i begin to rethink read talk about reestablish? authority re-establish democracy reestablished strength as emanating out of the us after i've had the bay of pigs. and vienna well, there was a problem with that wanting to reestablish was because you also had the south blowing up. black folks strugglin

. >> reporter: nina is the great granddaughter of nikita khrushchev, a former strongman who led the soviet she believes putin is playing the long game. >> russia suffers from a tremendous superiority complex because of its size and its history and because it's never really accepted into being european country. >> reporter: in the 1970s, putin joined the kgb, becoming a mid-level spy, eventually the chief of russia's counterintelligence agency. although the kgb was technically disbanded when the soviet union fell, putin's experience as an intelligence officer watching the soviet union dissolve made its mark. earlier this week, he claimed the soviet union was robbed of land. >> we talk about the way that the collapse of the soviet union is within living memory. it's important to remember that with putin, that is lived memory, not living memory, lived memory. so these are events that he remembers personally and is angry about. >> we'll have another update from ukraine in just a few minutes. >>> still to come, a crocodile escapes custody in florida. >>> also ahead, a news reporter gets a big s

and what you ask was also was also guilty for taking part in this crisis. nikita khrushchev who acted very bizarrely, was actually almost 2 years in power lead a one. and then he was actually taken away by the bullet bureau, who actually use schema of bowen or radical actions. and he was replaced by much more conservative and much more sober. figure like loony brash now. so it's very difficult. i don't think the people within the foods in a circle are agree. would you agree with all his actions? yes, we see people nodding in advance. we see people. yes, mister president. but it's a very difficult and very complicated situation because let's see in georgia into those and they went a different picture, georgia z. i bring them to put that on a policy. yes, gregory a republican mr. mid it was who actually acted on his will also, but he did not teach melissa, he did not, you know, i jack, mr. the psychiatry little human jail. that was a different time. so that happened in 3 days. mr. brandt, of course, is a different figure, but the burden is very heavy. so even people within my circle who

nikita khrushchev gave crimea to the russians.hen they took crimea back, it was already a russian territory. it does not really involve america. why does the united states have to be involved in that? host: you don't think that if putin takes ukraine he can continue on to other countries and they can spill over? caller: it will only spill over because nato keeps encroaching. we would not want nuclear weapons pointed at us. they don't want missiles pointed at them. they have a right to defend themselves. rather than listening to fake news saying that president putin is crazy. they are trying to get people involved in a war that doesn't involve the american people. take a look at a map here from the west -- washington post. this is the russian the salt coming into belarus. here is russia and crimea. just to give you some perspective. let's go to doug from south dakota. caller: good morning. president putin is a big boy. he is trying to accomplish what he has had an this mind a long time ago. we need to send along the weapons that ca

fast-forward 1953 nikita khrushchev takes over to eliminate any tools of scotland removing some of the964 his successor turn russia more towards dictatorship and repeat of the economy to a deep decline. and 85 mikhail gorbachev was the last leader of ussr jumpstarting economic reforms and then to the rise of privately owned businesses in free-market capitalism but have the opposite effect leading to the collapse of the soviet union. and in 1982 the first president of modern russia, boris yeltsin would lead to the wild west of capitalism a devastating consequences numeral being a citizens then out of nowhere that how did vladimir putin rise to power? history begins in 1952. and only child born in st. petersburg. his parents were factory workers and get attended leningrad state university and would become an intelligence officer for the kgb. the soviet union collapsed and retired from the intelligence agencies and return home to work in local politics becoming the head of external relations and first deputy mayor when losing in a day six putin moved his family to moscow climbing up in th

nikita khrushchev led the soviet union. his granddaughter believes putin is playing the long game.plex because of its size and potential, and it was never really expect -- never really a european country. >> although the kgb was technically disbanded when the soviet union fell, putin's experience as an intelligence officer made its mark. earlier this week, he claimed the soviet union was robbed. >> he remember's the soviet period when russia and ukraine were one. kumasi: here is another live look at the capital of ukraine this morning. i will give you another full update on the latest at 6:30. reggie:outhak tahoe pice want you to stop calling them about the bear hank the tank unless there is a real emergency. they say, please stop calling south lake tahoe with your opinions about hank. they are getting so many calls, it is impacting their ability to respond to real emergencies. the department says they have no say in what happens to the bear. and not call police. kumasi: meantime, some crocodile chaos in northeast florida. this is a crocodile that escaped from the zoo -- not the zo

of international affairs of the new school in great granddaughter to former soviet premier, nikita khrushchev. i can't think of a better too to have this conversation. with ambassador taylor, i want to start with you, what's significant development today, both on the economic and military front. germany announced that it would join the list of countries sending military assistance to ukraine. it is a historical shift for this country that has tried to remain at least militarily on the sidelines when it comes to confrontations like this. it has had a long-standing policy of never sending weapons to conflict zones, but that has changed it seems. this has been critical of the west response to russia's aggression. it is ukraine, from your perspective, now getting enough help, or the help it needs to turn the tide? >> enough help, the help it needs to turn the tide, hollande ayman, i don't think so, not yet. it's getting plenty of help. it's getting equipment, and weapons from the germans now, has you just mentioned. send qatari blinken just announced another $350 million of military assistance to

just one of those things might convince nikita khrushchev, the soviet leader, he might try to preempt that would be the end of it. in the missile crisis there was an american plane that accidentally crossed the soviet border near alaska. kennedy managed to stop it. if he had not, if there had been a nuclear war we could have had 50 to 60 million people incinerated. many of us on this panel might not be here. >> mike mcfall, thank you for being with us for two hours today, and we also, of course, saw you this morning. can you bring it all together for us? how do we appeal to what seems to be an illogical leader like vladimir putin, isolated and illogical? >> i say two quick things. first, i completely agree with david about the messaging. i worked with the vice president, now the president, for three years -- five years actually, three years at the white house. that's when he's at his best. i would remind you that ukrainians, polish americans, lithuanian player cans, they live in those places that the president knows well, places like pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin. he can connect to th

khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at the new school and the great granddaughter of nikita khrushchev get your reaction to this news of president biden approving this troop redeployment there to eastern countries in nato, coming just a day after we finally heard from vladimir putin after a month of silence, where after some wild accusations that the u.s. is somehow provoking russia to invade ukraine, he did seem to open the door to more conversations. that was seen as a bit rea reassuring. how do you think then the kremlin will react to this news? >> well, thank you for inviting me. i thought it was a little odd timing of president biden to allow the more troops. but at the same time we have seen that before. i think before it was 8,500 troops that they approved, but turned out they're not going immediately. so we don't really know exactly how soon that will happen. but i also believe that since this is kind of a game of who will blink first, and how the conversation will continue, both sides seem to be willing to kind of up the stakes until they finally get to the point when the thre

of international affairs of the new school, and great granddaughter of former soviet premier nikita khrushchevin. i want to start by asking you about the current state of tensions, and all the details we have heard about today's call between these two leaders. what is your take on the recent developments as of this afternoon or this evening? >> thank you, ayman. it's very good to see you again. it's very interesting that it is very different from the united states and the russian parts so the united states -- it feels a bit of a paragraph they have a little bit. and the website is that biden once again once president putin that there will be present very harsh consequences. and on the kremlin side, you can say that it was professional, it was tough, but it was very helpful, and they agree they would continue the conversation. so it is interesting that during this very diplomatic blitz for many months now, the russians are much more -- [inaudible] >> in terms of the situation on the ground, nina, russia continues to say that they're not on the verge of an attack. and they're the ones accusing t

giving into nikita khrushchev, giving into nationalists.shchev gave them separate status. he saw a stall and then gave lots of rights. why did we have to be so generous? this is putin speaking just now. and then give these republics the right to leave here and madness. that is exactly what putin said moments ago. he then said that the bolsheviks try to stay in power at any cost. he goes on to talk about the breakup of the soviet union, which he believes there is the greatest test or a catastrophe for russia of all time. he lays out, with very cold and calculating language, "we are ready to show you what real dcom unitization looks like." ukraine, after the break up, they took down lenin statues, and we are ready to show you what real de-communization looks like. that goes back to the 12 page of treaties, if he will, in which he laid out his plans, and they involve taking ukraine in its entirety. we now know that general mark milley and lloyd have left that meeting at the white house. the very, very serious situation as we see what happens i

and back then, i'm talking about the missile crisis in cuba where soviet president nikita khrushchev had a right to that sort of expansionism and aggression. thank god that president john fitzgerald kennedy, having reached a very tight ultimatum with the reality, decided that the united states would not accept that. and we were on the brink of war then. but the soviet union blinked. they removed their missiles from cuba, and we have sort of coexisted in a sort of cold war for sometime now. and then with the fall of berlin and the ending of the soviet union as we knew it and now the singular emergence of russia, all of us concerned here -- here concerned what's happening at ukraine. when you look at the propaganda being spun by the kremlin, it's all so familiar what happened in 1914. when the soviet union went off into its own direction and when it began to build up its war machine. in 2014, the russian government, following the same script, has decided or did decide then to have similar troop movement, similar weapons buildup and a similar effort to invade. even though the talk then

nikita khrushchev gave crimea to the russians.hen they took crimea back, it was already a russian territory. it does not really involve america. why does the united states have to be involved in that? host: you don't think that if putin takes ukraine he can continue on to other countries and they can spill over? caller: it will only spill over because nato keeps encroaching. we would not want nuclear weapons pointed at us. they don't want missiles pointed at them. they have a right to defend themselves. rather than listening to fake news saying that president putin is crazy. they are trying to get people involved in a war that doesn't involve the american people. take a look at a map here from the west -- washington post. this is the russian the salt coming into belarus. here is russia and crimea. just to give you some perspective. let's go to doug from south dakota. caller: good morning. president putin is a big boy. he is trying to accomplish what he has had an this mind a long time ago. we need to send along the weapons that ca