This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

Ukraine conflict and the Kremlin.

I welcome George Friedman, the founder and chairman of Geopolitical futures.

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These are mysteries that can be solved eventually a hundred years from now.

Now we look very much at the fog of war in Ukraine and in Russia.

George a very good evening to you.

Thank you. I begin not with the immediate peace offering by Mr. Putin again,

but prior to that events that remain puzzling, you've written about the change in leadership,

that's what it is, at the Kremlin.

Soig you, the defense minister to Secretary of the Security Council,

perhaps also with the State Security portfolio.

And the man who was with that portfolio, Petrucheff to an advisor to the President,

without portfolio, a new man, Baljosif, who is an

economist prior to that he was with the presidential administration. He is now the defense minister, though no prior war fighting.

And then beyond that, the mystery of the Kremlin,

this is not the good old days of criminology where you could count who's on

Lenin's tomb in which position they stand from the general secretary. These are

genuinely puzzling. What are you at this removed several days after this decision? What do you see different about the leadership style of Vladimir Putin? Anything at all? Good evening to you, George.

Good evening.

And yes, there is.

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