To see how Putin is in 18 months after all my sanctions. Well, the reports are, and I confess I haven't been following that closely. I'm sure you have because you've been talking about a lot. Their [Russia's] economy is doing fine. They suffered a bit, but they've made up a lot of the revenue and the war funding that they've been doing. And they are just trading with different partners now and not the Europeans. And Putin seems like he's doing, you know, maybe not spectacularly, but fine and certainly hasn't been brought to his knees by anything we've done. (06:36–06:44)
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Asserts that Russia's economy has recovered from initial sanctions and is doing fine.
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