With Andrei Illarionov

ANDREI ILLARIONOV, Former Chief Economic Advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy

• Andrei Illarionov talks about how and why Russia did not attack Ukraine on Feb 16, as many within the Biden administration had warned
• Illarionov questions the reliability of U.S. intelligence gathering: “There will be no big war from the Russia side against Ukraine”
• What are Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two paramount goals?
• Illarionov argues that President Biden claimed Russia would launch an attack against Ukraine last week in order to draw attention away from the Durham probe
• How does Putin regard Biden?
• What is preventing Putin from invading Ukraine now?