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Vladimir Pernet. Vladimir Putin accusing the West of trying to cancel Russia.

Sky News reports he made that comment after Ukrainian President Volodemir Zelensky spoke to Congress and asked for more help to defend what he calls the values of Europe and the world.

Putin reportedly warning the West, giving Ukraine more weapons, will only continue the bloodshed.

John Rackleff, former director of national intelligence, joins me now for the untold story.

Director Rackleff, very good to have you with us today.

You bet. Good to be with you.

Thank you. There's a lot of discussion about sort of the big picture, global power dynamics

and the shifting of all of that in the world. How do you think? I want to ask you first about

China because they're obviously a front row observer to all of this and really made some comments

before the Olympics that they had a no-limits relationship with Russia. So now that they see that

Russia is getting a bit stymied in Ukraine, although they're lashing out and creating horrific

bloodshed every day, how do you think China views this? Well, I do think that China is surprised, to some extent, as is the rest of the world, at how Russia is performing on the battlefield with regard to Ukraine.

And I think that, you know, much as U.S. intelligence and probably Chinese intelligence probably

thought that this would go much more quickly.

And, you know, that would have been a better thing, a better outcome, frankly, for China.

We do know from, you know, I can't say because there's been public reporting on this that, you know,

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