Former CIA Officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen's Strategic Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This week on Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with former senior CIA officer and Moscow station chief Rolf Mowatt-Larssen about his strategic analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war. He maps out the Russian objectives in the war and the lack of clear Western goals as the war continues. Mowatt-Larssen predicts that Putin will launch an offensive in 2023 but not until he has mobilized a sufficient number of troops, something he failed to do in the past year. Mowatt-Larssen discusses Putin's "scorched earth" approach and how it has led to the weaponization of energy.
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| 0:00.0 | Ralph Mott Larson is a former senior CIA officer who spent much of his career working |
| 0:07.2 | on Russia. |
| 0:08.2 | Ralph now serves as the William J. Perry Distinguished Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative and is |
| 0:13.4 | a senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. |
| 0:17.7 | Ralph has been on our show several times to discuss the war in Ukraine and he joins us |
| 0:22.2 | today to provide an update as we approach the one-year anniversary of Vladimir Putin's |
| 0:27.4 | massive invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:29.8 | And at that point if the Russian Army were somehow facing defeat on the battlefield, |
| 0:35.0 | then I think nuclear weapons again will be something we're going to be talking about |
| 0:38.6 | and Putin will be thinking about. |
| 0:40.3 | So that's my big fear. |
| 0:41.3 | We'll be right back with that discussion after a quick break. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Michael Morrell and this is Intelligence Matters. |
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