This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague of Anastradner of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

about how Putin is responding to the Ukrainian invasion of Russia, so may blastas, Kurskoblast, how Putin responded to the terror attack in Moscow,

how Putin attacks to all these surprises, she mentions Pergosen, does Avana. What does this translate

into for the Russian opinion? Avana translates for us. The word is strength, it's missing.

Listen carefully.

Putin is on the defensive.

More of this tonight.

You know, in psychology, I like to call that it's called actually projection what he's doing.

The Russians definitely do not like weak leaders and he this is actually not the first time when when

where his weakness was exposed let's not forget that last year

brigaging was marching to Moscow, allegedly trying to overthrow his government.

So that was the first humiliation.

Let's not forget what happened with the concert hall that he was not even able to stop like a terrorist attack inside the country.

So for the past two years, he has been exposed, his weakness has been exposed, and that's something

he fears more than anything else.