And so that apparatus, the state security apparatus of Russia never really went away after the kgb. It's still there. And what I think a lot of people don't understand is that Putin controls 10 deep in every ministry. People at every level of that owe their whole life really to Vladimir Putin. They're not going to go away that soon. He wasn't going to go down without a fight. And I do think it showed the frustration at the lack of performance on the battlefield by the Russians. (28:30–28:41)
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