James Clapper: “Absolutely. That has been the pattern.”

I think Putin's mind is made up. And he might improvise as he goes he I think he would do he would do that anyway.

Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.

this is the standard Russian -- Soviet Russian way of war. Surround a city if they can and they are having trouble doing that, put it under siege, strangle it, prevent supplies, medicines, food, water, et cetera and then bombard the city…

This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.