Putin’s autocratic leadership is a 'poisonous mixture' for decision making | ABCNL



ABC News’ Kyra Phillips speaks to ABC News contributor Gen. Robert Abrams, along with Lt. Gen. Doug Lute about the latest tactics and strategies in Ukraine.

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45 comments

  1. I've noticed that all of the dictators throughout history slowly deteriorate not only mentally, but also physically. like power is somehow like a drug that world leaders that got addicted to it slowly destroys their body and the nation that they used to love so much got destroy as well in the process.

  2. 💔💔💔💔Please save Ukraine, this is unacceptable. …From Vietnam, I pray for the world to help Ukraine. Continue to support Ukraine with weapons to fight fascist Putin. On this day Ukraine is invaded, later my country and yours may be invaded by bombs💔💔💔🟡🔵

  3. Putin war criminal trash 🗑️ and a murdering Toxic ruler I pray for ukraine ❤️.

  4. True, like in this https://youtu.be/o9A-u8EoWcI he's absolutely like underage, and under aged should NOT run Nation, nor war operations 🙄

  5. Russia has become North Korea. Completely isolated.
    They're done.

    Only a Russian leader with a different world view can reverse this rapid decent.

  6. Stop taking old people run country’s… these are make Karen’s.

  7. He was always a killer stop him he has no soul!!!

  8. Ta loco ese wey putin..un asesino

  9. Putin a killer..simply an assassin 🦧🙉🙊🙈😡🤬🖤👺

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  11. Putin is talking nukes and my ex from over 8 yrs. ago be like .. omg I so scared of what phone he on keep driving around and by dumpster to figure it out. Sad world.

  12. The winds in the northern hemisphere go west to east. So if a tactical nuclear weapon is used in Ukraine, guess where the fallout will go?

  13. Biased opinion and propoganda of western media…Empire of lies…Truly said by putin…

  14. I stand with Ukraine, a sound from China.

  15. Oh no! Mental health? Yes, now he is depressed why the world is against him. His assets are freeze, the world stop buying products from russia. Russia is being cut off from all the banks, russia economy collapsed. He thought his enemy is only Ukraine but it’s the 🌍. 🇵🇭 🇺🇸

  16. That’s what happens when power is given to one man, eventually he will make fallible decisions! Take Putin out of office!

  17. Mr Putin is a gentleman and he has taken right decision at right time, Biden is a born bastard, after Afghan war he was searching to start a new war, lot of crimes and lot of innocent people killed by Americans around the world, now the time has come America will finish very soon.

  18. Russian Hitler tries to "solve the Ukrainian question" and nobody can stop him, the world is doomed. UN, EU, OSCE etc – they don't exist any more. New World order

  19. Jesus crist is coming back
    Repent
    Claime him in your heart now
    Admit he died on the cross for you and took your place in death.. so you can have eternal life

    God bless Ukraine .. for the love protection and light it so desperately needs now make all who are tired weary and fearful strong courageous and rested.. lord I call to you AMEN 🙏

  20. Pure propaganda as usual.Thats why he has overwhelming support from the Russian people.Unless democracys so called free press does the reporting.Meanwhile your punk(joe biden),has the support of about 14 states..The other 36 are invisible.

  21. Trump call Putin a genius again wow

  22. Hapless americans, after US troops fled ukraine like rabbits startled by a gunshot, all they can do is to give their opinions.

  23. Putin used to be a chess player, this feels more like he's losing at CandyLand.

  24. Stop calling them leaders. They are little but a criminal syndicate in power.

  25. Putin is the brazen liar. Putin and the Russian army are war criminals! They are waging genocide against the Ukrainian people!

  26. Who cares what Marco Rubio says

  27. well i didnt want to speak up now i got tk protect mysekf because all they said is im mental as u can see they the one is doing everything over hete is a whole brunch of thing and theg will kill us anytine now they dont get oick up why they come and investigate at the and just move foward if yall really investigatw at all they did all my money lije samsung app paypall amzon everthing abouf money and they didnt have permussion at all they all togethet it jusy mg family they aim for is all about money they got life insurance or all kinf f money of course tvey the ond doing the crimd all around here

  28. Have you seen these several short videos yesterday on Twitter ? (I have kept them) : on one, you see an Ukrainian car driver stopping by a Russian tank on the side of the road, with Russian soldiers, standing outside. He asks them: « are you broken? » «  yes, out of fuel » «  I can tow you back to Russia » «  laughs from Russian soldiers » «  you know where this road goes to? » «  No » «  Kiev.. » and then, the car driver leaves, and you see other tanks parked on the side of the road.
    Another video, this one much more dramatic and emotional : a tank with soldiers inside. A group of unarmed villagers standing in front of it, and then the camera zooms out and turns around, and there you see the whole village walking silently towards the tanks. No word.
    Last video: a young Russian soldier being filmed by someone. «  do you know where you are? » «  not exactly » «  Do you know why you are here? » «  we have been told we were doing exercises ». And you look at his eyes, the young man looks confused and lost.

  29. Putin so messed himself that human is done! Wtg buddy! Idiot

  30. No need to watch comedy. These media-DC devil productions are far more comical. Trembling swine in suits and lipstick projecting all of their dysfunction and fear, incompetence and failures, envy and overconfident cluelessness. They are surely stealing ratings from SNL.

  31. Folks, you are just as bad as Fox News if you don't buckle down and stop using the work invasion here. This is an ethnic cleansing operation and you know it. Semantics matter. Invasion even if unjust seems normal, unjust invasions happen all the time. Americans have a real problem understanding this is a race war since to us it looks like simple Slav-on-Slav violence. We only understand race conflict based on color or the age old antisemitic issue. However, antisemitism is a component here as well. Come on , you can say it as uncomfortable as it makes you "Ethnic Cleansing Operations" There you go.

  32. 6:30 waiiiit, what do you mean Russian troops didn't know they were sent into Ukraine? Where did they think they were going?

  33. Pooptin? Time to take ole’ yellar behind the barn.

  34. If I were a Russian Pilot, I will fully load my SU-57 to the MAX and send all ammo to the Deranged, Lunatic Putin's bedroom.

  35. Any Russian can use the Javelin to decapitate the Deranged, Lunatic Putin.

  36. Funny how in Russia the president acts as a king, with no opposition from anybody
    Monarchy is still alive and well in Russia

  37. Sorry to be bluntly honest, negotiations will make Putin worse and more ambitious as he might feel he can get what he always wants. The best decision is most painful one,breaking him down for once.

  38. Overthrow Putin and the world will negotiate terms.

  39. As the vid points out in the title, it's impossible for a 20 year dictator to get accurate, good advice. He's going to be surrounded by sycophants and yes-men.

    Putin grossly underestimated the Ukraine will to fight and actual capabilities.

    The Russian military is like the German Luftwaffe of WWII towards the latter part of the war. They had a few very good, well trained pilots and many virtually untrained pilots.

    The former is akin to the Russian special forces, advance elements, and recon/saboteurs who were air dropped in or rapidly advanced. The latter is akin to the regular Russian conscripted army.

    The initial invasion was supposed to have the sir dropped elements occupy key areas (like the military airfield near Kiev) and rapidly secure forward positions while the advance mechanized elements secured the supply line routes meeting up with the forward units to allow the fuel, ammo, and reinforcements to drive up and bolster the initial invasion forces.

    Needless to say, that didn't happen. The initial special forces troops were unable to hold their objectives without the mechanized troops arriving to support and all that soft equipment on the road was unable to move forward with the first elements bogged down fighting the Ukrainian defenders or outright out of fuel.

    Putin was picturing Iraq 1 and had found himself with an Afghanistan, where missiles are knocking out his resupply and attack aircraft behind the front line and his armor and mechanized units on the front line and even women and children are making molotovs like it was a craft fair and civilians taking up arms to defend themselves in addition to the active military and actual reservists with some training stalling his confused, poorly trained, tired, hungry, thirsty conscripts.

    Putin, has driven himself into a coffin.

    Perhaps he is suffering from mental illness and not just his normal narcissistic, egotistical hubris. Hopefully one of his advisors will recognize this, that he's in the wrong and Putin had Hobe mad, and push Putin down the stairs before Putin continues his path of escalation towards nukes.

    Putin painted himself into a corner with his rhetoric. He had to invade Ukraine, again (2014 was also an invasion), because he left no way to de-escalate without losing face.

    Now that he's turning his rhetoric towards nuclear weapons, it's very serious because he could again paint himself in a corner where the only action he perceives as viable, to not lose face, is to attack.

    The Russian people, and the world, should be very concerned about this unstable megalomaniac. Obviously, if Putin uses nukes, the Russian people will get real crispy, real fast too. Russians need to silence and remove Putin before his rhetoric actually comes true as a "self filling prophecy" and he does elicit a war with the West.

    War with Russia is not something anyone in the west wants. Most people either don't think about Russia at all or simply wish Russia had a reasonable leadership so that we could trade with them and exchange culturally.