Ambassador Robert Blackwill

And I just hope the Americans, the American administration, are not going to assist the

So it's all speculation.

President Putin in that by putting pressure on Ukraine to give up its sovereignty.

Well, in order to know, since there's such a small circle, and it's smaller now than it was a month ago, it's such a small circle, it would be wonderful if we had penetrated the very inner workings of the five men who made decisions led by Xi Jinping.

Well, let me just say...

It is when a general is charged with leaking nuclear secrets to the Americans, well, hooray if it's actually true.

But there are a variety of other interpretations one could make in the Chinese government saying that.

Well, what can he do?

we are, hopefully, the president is receiving from the intelligence community their best judgment of what's going on, and they're speculating less how much they know.

That's exactly the right question.

His progress on the battlefield is painfully slow and doesn't seem to accelerate now.

I'm doubtful they have penetrated the inner workings.

So there are two diametrically opposed

So I think there's no breakout

for Putin in the military campaign.

explanations.

So the strategy would be to persuade President Trump

One is that he's getting the military ready for action, as he said, as soon as 2007 against Taiwan.

to put so much pressure on Ukraine that it will abandon its determination to retain its sovereignty and succumb.

Yeah.