Russian ex-officer: We’re in a proxy war with the US | Conflict Zone

Few Moscow foreign policy & defense experts are more well-connected than Dmitri Trenin who left the Russian army as a military intelligence colonel and went on to head the Carnegie Moscow Center until it was dissolved in 2022. Trenin, who spoke to Tim Sebastian from the Russian capital, says the Kremlin sees the war in Ukraine as an “existential“ fight and that Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats need to be taken seriously. Much of the Russian elites sees the conflict as a proxy war with the United States and its NATO allies. Trenin says many issues could have been resolved before the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, but tragically were not. Chapters Info 00:00 Intro 01:55 Russia is coping, and learning 02:16 What to make of Russian forces change of commanders? 02:36 Prepare for more decisive action 03:15 One law for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrrov & Yevgeny Prigozhin of Wagner PMC? 03:54 Russia is a country at war. 04:33 Discontent in Moscow