This is

this is CBS Island the World. I'm John Bachelor visiting with my friend and colleague Anatole

leaving of the Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft.

The headlines from the London Telegraph.

Carciff children evacuated as fears of fresh Russian offensive grow, or Putin threatens

deployment of missiles to strike the West or Biden to skip

Zelensky's peace summit or Britain to send 1,000 first-person viewed drones to Ukraine.

The war continues in all these moving parts, Anatole.

The headline that strikes me most is Vladimir Putin is talking about pointing his missiles at NATO if they're not

already pointed and there's always been this background fear of a wider war is

that fear justified where we are right now because it would

seem that Russia has an advantage in Ukraine?

Well, I mean, I think it depends above all on what the West does and how Russia reacts.

I mean, Putin is obviously trying to, you know, discourage the West from further moves like allowing Ukraine to use US and NATO weapons to strike inside Russian territory.

Now, so far, you know, the Biden administration has said that they can only strike, you know, as part of the battle for Kharkov, you know, so in other words in adjacent Russian areas so not strike Moscow or deeper into into Russian territory.

If we stick to that I think deeper into Russian territory.

If we stick to that, I think that the Russians who are very, very anxious as I found in Moscow

not to get into a wider war with NATO because obviously that would risk of either their defeat or

you know, Spire an inter-nuclear war in which everybody would be destroyed.

If Western weapons started striking Moscow,

then I think Putin would probably have no choice but to escalate in some radical way.

And I think these sabotage attacks which are beginning in Europe are at the moment they're on a small

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