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Mobilization for the first time since 1945 for Russian conscripts, threats of nuclear war from the Kremlin

and the explosion of the Kirch bridge linking Crimea to the Russian Federation.

What does it all mean?

Well, we've got just the guest in studio to unpack it all for us from the DIA former intelligence officer

for Russia Rebecca Kofler. Welcome in studio.

Thank you very much, Dr. Jean, happy to be here.

I have to ask personally, when you wrote your book, Putin's playbook, not too long ago,

did you expect that you would be the center of attention almost every day

because of events happening in Russia and Ukraine?

I expected the war to happen, but I did not expect myself to be the center of attention.

All right, well, we have the whole hour to discuss what's happened.

The, how should I say this?

Less than delicate drumming up of nuclear threats.

The president used the phrase, Adam Gedon, at a fundraising event just a few days ago.

But let's start with the event that people still scratch their heads over,

the Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion.

We have your recent article, The Five Reasons,

why it is most likely that Russia was behind the sabotage.

First question, one always has to ask, we don't have the requisite evidence from 300 feet under the Baltic Sea,

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