1: PREVIEW: Handling Putin: Escalation, Sabotage, and Psychological Warfare Guest: Ivana Stradner Ivana Stradner discusses Vladimir Putin's recent offensive tactics, including drones, warplane flybys, and sabotage. She argues that offensive strategies are ne
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
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Ivana Stradner discusses Vladimir Putin's recent offensive tactics, including drones, warplane flybys, and sabotage. She argues that offensive strategies are necessary, noting Putin will continue to escalate and threaten with nuclear weapons. Stradner affirms that President Trump's nuclear counter-threat, involving American submarines, was the proper step to remove that challenge from negotiations.
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| 0:24.5 | This is John Batchel, speaking with a colleague of Anastradner, about Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin, and the recent reports of drones over airports in Europe, |
| 0:31.0 | flybys of high-performance warplanes by the defensive zones of European states. |
| 0:39.6 | Other Harris men has been reported sort of sabotaged dirty tricks over these last weeks. |
| 0:45.3 | Why and where it's going? |
| 0:47.4 | Ivana here speaks to what answers Mr. Putin, not defensive but offensive tactics, work with Mr. Putin, as she explains. |
| 0:59.2 | She also talks about the recent response by President Trump to one more rattling of the nuclear |
| 1:05.8 | saber of Anastradner on how to deal with the Kremlin psychological warfare manipulation of NATO, |
| 1:14.7 | of the EU, of the U.S., of everyone. |
| 1:18.4 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:20.7 | So we really have to stop putting, putting on a pedestal that he's someone, you know, out there, that |
| 1:28.7 | he's this tall, that we are that tall, because we do have means to put, putting on the |
| 1:34.7 | defensive. And my last point to that is putting is going to continue to escalate no matter what |
| 1:42.6 | we do. He's going to continue threatening with nukes. He is going to continue to escalate no matter what we do. He's going to continue threatening with |
| 1:45.4 | nukes. He is going to continue attacking Ukraine. When he comes to nukes, this is a typical |
| 1:51.6 | Russian propaganda and Russian military doctrine when it comes to nukes work very differently |
| 1:58.6 | from the way that we understand. So President Trump did exactly the right thing when Medvedev, when he threatened with nukes |
| 2:06.6 | to talk about moving American submarines, that was really a step in the right direction |
| 2:14.9 | to remove that from negotiation table that Russia has |
| 2:19.0 | been using to challenge the West. |
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